Semantic Visual Localization

2018

Conference Paper

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Robust visual localization under a wide range of viewing conditions is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Handling the difficult cases of this problem is not only very challenging but also of high practical relevance, eg, in the context of life-long localization for augmented reality or autonomous robots. In this paper, we propose a novel approach based on a joint 3D geometric and semantic understanding of the world, enabling it to succeed under conditions where previous approaches failed. Our method leverages a novel generative model for descriptor learning, trained on semantic scene completion as an auxiliary task. The resulting 3D descriptors are robust to missing observations by encoding high-level 3D geometric and semantic information. Experiments on several challenging large-scale localization datasets demonstrate reliable localization under extreme viewpoint, illumination, and geometry changes.

@inproceedings{Schoenberger2018CVPR,
  title = {Semantic Visual Localization },
  author = {Sch{\"o}nberger, Johannes and Pollefeys, Marc and Geiger, Andreas and Sattler, Torsten},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
  year = {2018},
  doi = {}
}