Summary of Peng: Pose-enhanced Geo-localisation, by Tavis Shore et al.
PEnG: Pose-Enhanced Geo-Localisation
by Tavis Shore, Oscar Mendez, Simon Hadfield
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Robotics (cs.RO)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, the authors tackle the limitation of cross-view geo-localisation at coarse granularity by proposing a novel approach that combines cross-view geo-localisation and relative pose estimation. The proposed system, PEnG, consists of two stages: predicting the most likely edges from a city-scale graph representation and performing relative pose estimation within these edges to determine a precise position. This ensemble achieves state-of-the-art precision, with significant improvements over previous works in terms of Top-5m retrieval and median euclidean distance error. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is all about improving the accuracy of finding where something is on a map using satellite images from different angles. Right now, this process can only be done roughly because the image patches overlap too much. The authors are trying to solve this problem by using both views available in the data to get a more precise location. They propose a new system called PEnG that does this and shows it can achieve accuracy down to centimeters! This is really important for real-world applications like navigation or search engines. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Euclidean distance » Pose estimation » Precision
