Lamar: Benchmarking localization and mapping for augmented reality

PE Sarlin, M Dusmanu, JL Schönberger… - … on Computer Vision, 2022 - Springer
Localization and mapping is the foundational technology for augmented reality (AR) that
enables sharing and persistence of digital content in the real world. While significant …

Snap: Self-supervised neural maps for visual positioning and semantic understanding

PE Sarlin, E Trulls, M Pollefeys… - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Semantic 2D maps are commonly used by humans and machines for navigation purposes,
whether it's walking or driving. However, these maps have limitations: they lack detail, often …

Ldp-feat: Image features with local differential privacy

F Pittaluga, B Zhuang - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Modern computer vision services often require users to share raw feature descriptors with an
untrusted server. This presents an inherent privacy risk, as raw descriptors may be used to …

Segloc: Learning segmentation-based representations for privacy-preserving visual localization

M Pietrantoni, M Humenberger… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Inspired by properties of semantic segmentation, in this paper we investigate how to
leverage robust image segmentation in the context of privacy-preserving visual localization …

Is geometry enough for matching in visual localization?

Q Zhou, S Agostinho, A Ošep, L Leal-Taixé - European Conference on …, 2022 - Springer
In this paper, we propose to go beyond the well-established approach to vision-based
localization that relies on visual descriptor matching between a query image and a 3D point …

Ninjadesc: Content-concealing visual descriptors via adversarial learning

T Ng, HJ Kim, VT Lee, D DeTone… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In the light of recent analyses on privacy-concerning scene revelation from visual
descriptors, we develop descriptors that conceal the input image content. In particular, we …

Privacy Preserving Localization via Coordinate Permutations

L Pan, JL Schönberger, V Larsson… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Recent methods on privacy-preserving image-based localization use a random line
parameterization to protect the privacy of query images and database maps. The lifting of …

Privacy-preserving representations are not enough: Recovering scene content from camera poses

K Chelani, T Sattler, F Kahl… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Visual localization is the task of estimating the camera pose from which a given image was
taken and is central to several 3D computer vision applications. With the rapid growth in the …

How privacy-preserving are line clouds? recovering scene details from 3d lines

K Chelani, F Kahl, T Sattler - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Visual localization is the problem of estimating the camera pose of a given image with
respect to a known scene. Visual localization algorithms are a fundamental building block in …

Privacy-preserving image features via adversarial affine subspace embeddings

M Dusmanu, JL Schonberger… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Many computer vision systems require users to upload image features to the cloud for
processing and storage. These features can be exploited to recover sensitive information …