Large-Scale Visual Geo-Localization

✍ Scribed by Amir R. Zamir, Asaad Hakeem, Luc Van Gool, Mubarak Shah, Richard Szeliski (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Series: Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This timely and authoritative volume explores the bidirectional relationship between images and locations. The text presents a comprehensive review of the state of the art in large-scale visual geo-localization, and discusses the emerging trends in this area. Valuable insights are supplied by a pre-eminent selection of experts in the field, into a varied range of real-world applications of geo-localization. Topics and features: discusses the latest methods to exploit internet-scale image databases for devising geographically rich features and geo-localizing query images at different scales; investigates geo-localization techniques that are built upon high-level and semantic cues; describes methods that perform precise localization by geometrically aligning the query image against a 3D model; reviews techniques that accomplish image understanding assisted by the geo-location, as well as several approaches for geo-localization under practical, real-world settings.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction to Large-Scale Visual Geo-localization....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Discovering Mid-level Visual Connections in Space and Time....Pages 21-40
Where the Photos Were Taken: Location Prediction by Learning from Flickr Photos....Pages 41-58
Cross-View Image Geo-localization....Pages 59-76
Ultrawide Baseline Facade Matching for Geo-localization....Pages 77-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Semantically Guided Geo-location and Modeling in Urban Environments....Pages 101-120
Recognizing Landmarks in Large-Scale Social Image Collections....Pages 121-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
Worldwide Pose Estimation Using 3D Point Clouds....Pages 147-163
Exploiting Spatial and Co-visibility Relations for Image-Based Localization....Pages 165-187
3D Point Cloud Reduction Using Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming....Pages 189-203
Image-Based Large-Scale Geo-localization in Mountainous Regions....Pages 205-223
Adaptive Rendering for Large-Scale Skyline Characterization and Matching....Pages 225-237
User-Aided Geo-location of Untagged Desert Imagery....Pages 239-254
Visual Geo-localization of Non-photographic Depictions via 2D–3D Alignment....Pages 255-275
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
A Memory Efficient Discriminative Approach for Location-Aided Recognition....Pages 279-298
A Real-World System for Image/Video Geo-localization....Pages 299-320
Photo Recall: Using the Internet to Label Your Photos....Pages 321-348
Back Matter....Pages 349-351

✦ Subjects

Image Processing and Computer Vision;Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics);Geographical Information Systems/Cartography;Pattern Recognition