Remote sensing image retrieval in the past decade: Achievements, challenges, and future directions

W Zhou, H Guan, Z Li, Z Shao… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Remote sensing image retrieval (RSIR) aims to search and retrieve the images of interest
from a large remote sensing image archive, which has remained to be a hot topic over the …

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Photogrammetric 3D Mapping: A survey of techniques, applications, and challenges

S Jiang, W Jiang, L Wang - IEEE Geoscience and Remote …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Three-dimensional mapping is an increasingly important feature for recent photogrammetry
and remote sensing (RS) systems. Currently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have …

Transgeo: Transformer is all you need for cross-view image geo-localization

S Zhu, M Shah, C Chen - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The dominant CNN-based methods for cross-view image geo-localization rely on polar
transform and fail to model global correlation. We propose a pure transformer-based …

Orienternet: Visual localization in 2d public maps with neural matching

PE Sarlin, D DeTone, TY Yang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Humans can orient themselves in their 3D environments using simple 2D maps. Differently,
algorithms for visual localization mostly rely on complex 3D point clouds that are expensive …

Image retrieval from remote sensing big data: A survey

Y Li, J Ma, Y Zhang - Information Fusion, 2021 - Elsevier
The blooming proliferation of aeronautics and astronautics platforms, together with the ever-
increasing remote sensing imaging sensors on these platforms, has led to the formation of …

Cross-view geo-localization with layer-to-layer transformer

H Yang, X Lu, Y Zhu - Advances in Neural Information …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In this work, we address the problem of cross-view geo-localization, which estimates the
geospatial location of a street view image by matching it with a database of geo-tagged …

Coming down to earth: Satellite-to-street view synthesis for geo-localization

A Toker, Q Zhou, M Maximov… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The goal of cross-view image based geo-localization is to determine the location of a given
street view image by matching it against a collection of geo-tagged satellite images. This …

Each part matters: Local patterns facilitate cross-view geo-localization

T Wang, Z Zheng, C Yan, J Zhang… - … on Circuits and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cross-view geo-localization is to spot images of the same geographic target from different
platforms, eg, drone-view cameras and satellites. It is challenging in the large visual …

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 …

Vigor: Cross-view image geo-localization beyond one-to-one retrieval

S Zhu, T Yang, C Chen - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Cross-view image geo-localization aims to determine the locations of street-view query
images by matching with GPS-tagged reference images from aerial view. Recent works …