arXiv Computer Vision

Ground-to-Satellite Localization in Unconstrained Image Collections for 3D Scene Reconstruction

arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 2

Wrivinder: Towards Spatial Intelligence for Geo-locating Ground Images onto Satellite Imagery

arXiv:2602.14929v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Aligning ground-level imagery with geo-registered satellite maps is crucial for mapping, navigation, and situational awareness, yet remains challen...

By Chandrakanth Gudavalli, Tajuddin Manhar Mohammed, Abhay Yadav, Ananth Vishnu Bhaskar, Hardik Prajapati, Cheng Peng, Rama Chellappa, Shivkumar Chandrasekaran, B. S. Manjunath
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 10

Warp-free Cross-view Geo-localization via Feature-space Consensus Mining

Cross-view geo-localization is challenging due to drastic viewpoint changes and large appearance discrepancies between street-level and satellite imagery. Although existing methods often use geometric warping to expose co-visible cues, such transformations rely on restrictive spatial assumptions and inevitably introduce severe visual distortions under view-dependent visibility, yielding noisy supervision and fragile correspondences.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

OpenCVL: An Open, Diverse, and Large-Scale Dataset for Fine-Grained Cross-View Localization

OpenCVL is a large, open dataset for fine-grained cross-view localization, comprising 617,388 ground‑aerial image pairs from 41 European cities. It blends high‑end sensor data with diverse in‑the‑wild images and includes a curation framework to correct pose annotations, enabling reliable evaluation. The dataset also offers cross‑area and snowy test sets to probe generalization, and experiments show that adding noisy in‑the‑wild data improves model performance on clean tests.

By Zimin Xia, Mubariz Zaffar, Junsheng Fu, Alexandre Alahi, Julian F. P. Kooij
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 29

Argus: Metric Panoramic 3D Reconstruction for Indoor Scenes

Metric feed-forward 3D reconstruction for panoramic data remains under-explored due to the lack of large-scale panoramic RGB-D training data. We present Realsee3D, a hybrid dataset of 10K indoor scenes (1K real, 9K synthetic) with 299K panoramic viewpoints and precise metric annotations, and Argus, a feed-forward network trained on it for metric panoramic 3D reconstruction.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

ORBIT++: Benchmarking SfM in the Wild with 360{\deg} Video

arXiv:2608.22039v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structure-from-Motion (SfM) is a cornerstone of 3D perception, yet current methods often fail when applied to complex videos involving challenging came...

By Sara Sabour, Linyi Jin, Richard Tucker, Amir Hertz, Marcus Brubaker, Saurabh Saxena, Junhwa Hur, Andrea Tagliasacchi, Deqing Sun, David J. Fleet, Richard Szeliski, Noah Snavely
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

ARC-Loc: Leveraging Azimuthal Ray Convergence as a Geometric Cue for Direct Cross-View Localization

ARC‑Loc introduces a new cross‑view localization method that bypasses heavy Bird’s‑Eye‑View transformations and external depth models. By converting ground keypoints into azimuthal rays on a satellite map and exploiting their convergence at the user’s location, the approach uses a minimal Azimuthal Ray Convergence solver and an ARC loss to directly match ground and satellite images. Experiments on VIGOR and KITTI show that ARC‑Loc achieves competitive accuracy while offering faster, memory‑efficient inference and easy integration with existing frameworks.

By Hyeongsik Kim, Mincheol Kim, Heejoon Moon, Je Hyeong Hong