Large-Scale Visual Geo-Localization

This timely and authoritative volume explores the bidirectional relationship between images and locations. The text presents a comprehensive review of the state of the art in large-scale visual geo-localization, and discusses the emerging trends in this area. Valuable insights are supplied by a pre-eminent selection of experts in the field, into a varied range of real-world applications of geo-localization. Topics and features: discusses the latest methods to exploit internet-scale image databases for devising geographically rich features and geo-localizing query images at different scales; investigates geo-localization techniques that are built upon high-level and semantic cues; describes methods that perform precise localization by geometrically aligning the query image against a 3D model; reviews techniques that accomplish image understanding assisted by the geo-location, as well as several approaches for geo-localization under practical, real-world settings.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction to Large-Scale Visual Geo-localization

Part I Data-Driven Geo-localization
Chapter 2 Discovering Mid-level Visual Connections in Space and Time
Chapter 3 Where the Photos Were Taken: Location Prediction by Learning from Flickr Photos
Chapter 4 Cross-View Image Geo-localization
Chapter 5 Ultrawide Baseline Facade Matching for Geo-localization

Part II Semantic Reasoning Based Geo-localization
Chapter 6 Semantically Guided Geo-location and Modeling in Urban Environments
Chapter 7 Recognizing Landmarks in Large-Scale Social Image Collections

Part III Geometric Matching Based Geo-localization
Chapter 8 Worldwide Pose Estimation Using 3D Point Clouds
Chapter 9 Exploiting Spatial and Co-visibility Relations for Image-Based Localization
Chapter 10 3D Point Cloud Reduction Using Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming
Chapter 11 Image-Based Large-Scale Geo-localization in Mountainous Regions
Chapter 12 Adaptive Rendering for Large-Scale Skyline Characterization and Matching
Chapter 13 User-Aided Geo-location of Untagged Desert Imagery
Chapter 14 Visual Geo-localization of Non-photographic Depictions via 2D–3D Alignment
Appendix I: f(x) =sin(x)/x
Appendix II: fN(x) =|sin(Nx)/N sin(x)| N = 1, 3, 5, 10, 20
Appendix III: Cosine and Sine Integrals
Appendix IV: Fresnel Integrals