A survey on deep learning-based monocular spacecraft pose estimation: Current state, limitations and prospects

L Pauly, W Rharbaoui, C Shneider, A Rathinam… - Acta Astronautica, 2023 - Elsevier
Estimating the pose of an uncooperative spacecraft is an important computer vision problem
for enabling the deployment of automatic vision-based systems in orbit, with applications …

LoFTR: Detector-free local feature matching with transformers

J Sun, Z Shen, Y Wang, H Bao… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present a novel method for local image feature matching. Instead of performing image
feature detection, description, and matching sequentially, we propose to first establish pixel …

Aspanformer: Detector-free image matching with adaptive span transformer

H Chen, Z Luo, L Zhou, Y Tian, M Zhen, T Fang… - … on Computer Vision, 2022 - Springer
Generating robust and reliable correspondences across images is a fundamental task for a
diversity of applications. To capture context at both global and local granularity, we propose …

Patch-netvlad: Multi-scale fusion of locally-global descriptors for place recognition

S Hausler, S Garg, M Xu, M Milford… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract Visual Place Recognition is a challenging task for robotics and autonomous
systems, which must deal with the twin problems of appearance and viewpoint change in an …

Back to the feature: Learning robust camera localization from pixels to pose

PE Sarlin, A Unagar, M Larsson… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Camera pose estimation in known scenes is a 3D geometry task recently tackled by multiple
learning algorithms. Many regress precise geometric quantities, like poses or 3D points …

Clustergnn: Cluster-based coarse-to-fine graph neural network for efficient feature matching

Y Shi, JX Cai, Y Shavit, TJ Mu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with attention have been successfully applied for
learning visual feature matching. However, current methods learn with complete graphs …

Beyond cross-view image retrieval: Highly accurate vehicle localization using satellite image

Y Shi, H Li - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
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 …

DKM: Dense kernelized feature matching for geometry estimation

J Edstedt, I Athanasiadis… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Feature matching is a challenging computer vision task that involves finding
correspondences between two images of a 3D scene. In this paper we consider the dense …

[PDF][PDF] Where is your place, visual place recognition?

S Garg, T Fischer, M Milford - IJCAI, 2021 - ijcai.org
Abstract Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is often characterized as being able to recognize
the same place despite significant changes in appearance and viewpoint. VPR is a key …

Meshloc: Mesh-based visual localization

V Panek, Z Kukelova, T Sattler - European Conference on Computer …, 2022 - Springer
Visual localization, ie, the problem of camera pose estimation, is a central component of
applications such as autonomous robots and augmented reality systems. A dominant …