Paper Info
Title
Beyond Cross-view Image Retrieval: Highly Accurate Vehicle Localization Using Satellite Image
Abstract
This paper addresses the problem of vehicle-mounted camera localization by matching a ground-level image with an overhead-view satellite map. Existing methods often treat this problem as cross-view image retrieval, and use learned deep features to match the ground-level query im-age to a partition (e.g., a small patch) of the satellite map. By these methods, the localization accuracy is limited by the partitioning density of the satellite map (often in the order of tens meters). Departing from the conventional wisdom of image retrieval, this paper presents a novel solution that can achieve highly-accurate localization. The key idea is to formulate the task as pose estimation and solve it by neural-net based optimization. Specifically, we design a two-branch CNN to extract robust features from the ground and satellite images, respectively. To bridge the vast cross-view domain gap, we resort to a Geometry Projection module that projects features from the satellite map to the ground-view, based on a relative camera pose. Aiming to minimize the differences between the projected features and the observed features, we employ a differentiable Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) module to search for the optimal camera pose iteratively. The entire pipeline is differen-tiable and runs end-to-end. Extensive experiments on standard autonomous vehicle localization datasets have confirmed the superiority of the proposed method. Notably, e.g., starting from a coarse estimate of camera location within a wide region of 40m × 40m, with an 80% likelihood our method quickly reduces the lateral location error to be within 5m on a new KITTI cross-view dataset.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.01650
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Scene analysis and understanding, 3D from multi-view and sensors, Navigation and autonomous driving, Photogrammetry and remote sensing, RGBD sensors and analytics, Robot vision
Conference
2022
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yujiao Shi100.34
Hongdong Li21724101.81