Towards Accurate Camera Geopositioning by Image Matching
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In this work, we present a camera geopositioning system based on matching a query image against a database with panoramic images. For matching, our system uses memory vectors aggregated from global image descriptors based on convolutional features to facilitate fast searching in the database. To speed up searching, a clustering algorithm is used to balance geographical positioning and computation time. We refine the obtained position from the query image using a new outlier removal algorithm. The matching of the query image is obtained with a recall@5 larger than 90 matching. We cluster available panoramas from geographically adjacent locations into a single compact representation and observe computational gains of approximately 50 Finally, we present a coordinate estimation algorithm that reduces the median geopositioning error by up to 20
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