A growing number of sensors on smart mobile devices has led to rapid development of
various mobile applications using location-based or context-aware services. Typically …

摘要随着摄像头安装数量的日益增多, 以及智慧城市和公共安全需求的日益增长,
采用人工的视频监控方式已经远远不能满足需要, 因此智能视频监控技术应运而生并迅速成为 …

Abstract Visual Place Recognition (VPR) estimates the location of query images by matching
them with images in a reference database. Conventional methods generally adopt …

The idea of 'citizen as sensors' has gradually become a reality over the past decade. Today,
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) from citizens is highly involved in acquiring …

Visual Geo-localization (VG) is the task of estimating the position where a given photo was
taken by comparing it with a large database of images of known locations. To investigate …

Navigation/positioning systems have become critical to many applications, such as
autonomous driving, Internet of Things (IoT), Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), and smart …

While image retrieval and instance recognition techniques are progressing rapidly, there is a
need for challenging datasets to accurately measure their performance--while posing novel …

Where am I? This is one of the most critical questions that any intelligent system should
answer to decide whether it navigates to a previously visited area. This problem has long …

Visual localization is the task of accurate camera pose estimation in a known scene. It is a
key problem in computer vision and robotics, with applications including self-driving cars …

Visual localization enables autonomous vehicles to navigate in their surroundings and
augmented reality applications to link virtual to real worlds. Practical visual localization …