We address the problem of ground-to-satellite image geo-localization, that is, estimating the camera latitude, longitude and orientation (azimuth angle) by matching a query image captured at the ground level against a large-scale database with geotagged satellite images. Our prior arts treat the above task as pure image retrieval by selecting the most similar satellite reference image matching the ground-level query image. However, such an approach often produces coarse location estimates because the geotag of the retrieved satellite image only corresponds to the image center while the ground camera can be located at any point within the image. To further consolidate our prior research findings, we present a novel geometry-aware geo-localization method. Our new method is able to achieve the fine-grained location of a query image, up to pixel size precision of the satellite image, once its coarse location and orientation have been determined. Moreover, we propose a new geometry-aware image retrieval pipeline to improve the coarse localization accuracy. Apart from a polar transform in our conference work, this new pipeline also maps satellite image pixels to the ground-level plane in the ground-view via a geometry-constrained projective transform to emphasize informative regions, such as road structures, for cross-view geo-localization. Extensive quantitative and qualitative experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our newly proposed framework. We also significantly improve the performance of coarse localization results compared to the state-of-the-art in terms of location recalls.
KU Leuven（鲁汶大学）；Ford（福特公司）；Ford Greenfield Labs（福特格林菲尔德实验室）
We describe a Deep-Geometric Localizer that is able to estimate the full 6 Degree of Freedom (DoF) global pose of the camera from a single image in a previously mapped environment. Our map is a topo-metric one, with discrete topological nodes whose 6 DoF poses are known. Each topo-node in our map also comprises of a set of points, whose 2D features and 3D locations are stored as part of the mapping process. For the mapping phase, we utilise a stereo camera and a regular stereo visual SLAM pipeline. During the localization phase, we take a single camera image, localize it to a topological node …
Full-DoF Egomotion Estimation for Event Cameras Using Geometric Solvers
Independent Researcher（独立研究者）；College of Aerospace Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology（国防科技大学航空航天学院）；Mobile Perception Lab, ShanghaiTech University（上海科技大学移动感知实验室）
Estimating the 3D pose of an object is a challenging task that can be considered within augmented reality or robotic applications. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to perform 6 DoF object pose estimation from a single RGB-D image. We adopt a hybrid pipeline in two stages: data-driven and geometric respectively. The data-driven step consists of a classification CNN to estimate the object 2D location in the image from local patches, followed by a regression CNN trained to predict the 3D location of a set of keypoints in the camera coordinate system. To extract the pose information, the…
BREATH-VL: Vision-Language-Guided 6-DoF Bronchoscopy Localization via Semantic-Geometric Fusion
State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（多模态人工智能系统国家重点实验室，自动化研究所）；School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学人工智能学院）；Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学附属第一医院呼吸与危重症医学科）；Centre of AI and Robotics, Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（香港科学院人工智能与机器人中心）；School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King’s College London（伦敦国王学院生物医学工程与影像科学学院）
SplatPose: Geometry-Aware 6-DoF Pose Estimation from Single RGB Image via 3D Gaussian Splatting
Harbin Institute of Technology（哈尔滨工业大学）；Zhengzhou Research Institute, Harbin Institute of Technology（哈尔滨工业大学郑州研究院）；School of Information Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shen Zhen)（哈尔滨工业大学（深圳）信息科学与技术学院）；Jianghuai Advance Technology Center（江淮先进技术中心）
Novel view synthesis is a challenging problem in computer vision and robotics. Different from the existing works, which need the reference images or 3D models of the scene to generate images under novel views, we propose a novel paradigm to this problem. That is, we synthesize the novel view from only a 6-DoF camera pose directly. Although this setting is the most straightforward way, there are few works addressing it. While, our experiments demonstrate that, with a concise CNN, we could get a meaningful parametric model that could reconstruct the correct scenery images only from the 6-DoF pos…
Although a wide variety of deep neural networks for robust Visual Odometry (VO) can be found in the literature, they are still unable to solve the drift problem in long-term robot navigation. Thus, this paper aims to propose novel deep end-to-end networks for long-term 6-DoF VO task. It mainly fuses relative and global networks based on Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks (RCNNs) to improve the monocular localization accuracy. Indeed, the relative sub-networks are implemented to smooth the VO trajectory, while global subnetworks are designed to avoid drift problem. All the parameters are j…
Australian National University（澳大利亚国立大学）；University of Oxford（牛津大学）；University of Technology Sydney（悉尼科技大学）
This paper presents a new approach for synthesizing a novel street-view panorama given an overhead satellite image. Taking a small satellite image patch as input, our method generates a Google's omnidirectional street-view type panorama, as if it is captured from the same geographical location as the center of the satellite patch. Existing works tackle this task as an image generation problem which adopts generative adversarial networks to implicitly learn the cross-view transformations, while ignoring the domain relevance. In this paper, we propose to explicitly establish the geometric corres…
TreeLoc: 6-DoF LiDAR Global Localization in Forests via Inter-Tree Geometric Matching
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, SNU（机械工程系，首尔国立大学）；Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford（牛津大学机器人研究所）；CSIRO Robotics, DATA61, CSIRO and the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Queensland (UQ)（CSIRO机器人、DATA61、CSIRO及昆士兰大学电气工程与计算机科学学院）
LIGM（加斯帕尔·蒙日信息学实验室）；Ecole des Ponts（巴黎桥路学院）；Univ Gustave Eiffel（古斯塔夫·埃菲尔大学）；CNRS（法国国家科学研究中心）
Estimating the relative pose of a new object without prior knowledge is a hard problem, while it is an ability very much needed in robotics and Augmented Reality. We present a method for tracking the 6D motion of objects in RGB video sequences when neither the training images nor the 3D geometry of the objects are available. In contrast to previous works, our method can therefore consider unknown objects in open world instantly, without requiring any prior information or a specific training phase. We consider two architectures, one based on two frames, and the other relying on a Transformer En…
The goal of cross-view image based geo-localization is to determine the location of a given street view image by matching it against a collection of geo-tagged satellite images. This task is notoriously challenging due to the drastic viewpoint and appearance differences between the two domains. We show that we can address this discrepancy explicitly by learning to synthesize realistic street views from satellite inputs. Following this observation, we propose a novel multi-task architecture in which image synthesis and retrieval are considered jointly. The rationale behind this is that we can b…
In this work we present a novel approach to joint semantic localisation and scene understanding. Our work is motivated by the need for localisation algorithms which not only predict 6-DoF camera pose but also simultaneously recognise surrounding objects and estimate 3D geometry. Such capabilities are crucial for computer vision guided systems which interact with the environment: autonomous driving, augmented reality and robotics. In particular, we propose a two step procedure. During the first step we train a convolutional neural network to jointly predict per-pixel globally unique instance la…
We present a new dataset for 6-DoF pose estimation of known objects, with a focus on robotic manipulation research. We propose a set of toy grocery objects, whose physical instantiations are readily available for purchase and are appropriately sized for robotic grasping and manipulation. We provide 3D scanned textured models of these objects, suitable for generating synthetic training data, as well as RGBD images of the objects in challenging, cluttered scenes exhibiting partial occlusion, extreme lighting variations, multiple instances per image, and a large variety of poses. Using semi-autom…
ASGrasp: Generalizable Transparent Object Reconstruction and 6-DoF Grasp Detection from RGB-D Active Stereo Camera
Samsung R&D Institute China-Beijing（三星中国北京研发中心）；CFCS, School of Computer Science, Peking University（计算机科学系，北京大学）；Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI)（北京人工智能研究院）
Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑工业大学）；Google（谷歌）；Johns Hopkins University（约翰斯·霍普金斯大学）
6-DoF robotic grasping is a long-lasting but unsolved problem. Recent methods utilize strong 3D networks to extract geometric grasping representations from depth sensors, demonstrating superior accuracy on common objects but perform unsatisfactorily on photometrically challenging objects, e.g., objects in transparent or reflective materials. The bottleneck lies in that the surface of these objects can not reflect back accurate depth due to the absorption or refraction of light. In this paper, in contrast to exploiting the inaccurate depth data, we propose the first RGB-only 6-DoF grasping pipe…
Vision Systems Inc.（视觉系统公司）；Centauri Corporation（半人马座公司）；University of Arkansas（阿肯色大学）
This paper describes an investigation of the source of geospatial error in digital surface models (DSMs) constructed from multiple satellite images. In this study the uncertainty in surface geometry is separated into two spatial components; global error that affects the absolute position of the surface, and local error that varies from surface point to surface point. The global error component is caused by inaccuracy in the satellite imaging process, mainly due to uncertainty in the satellite position and orientation (pose) during image collection. A key result of the investigation is a new al…
