ConGeo: Robust Cross-View Geo-Localization Across Ground View Variations
Cross-view geo-localization aims at localizing a ground-level query image by matching it to its corresponding geo-referenced aerial view. In real-world scenarios, the task requires accommodating diverse ground images captured by users with varying orientations and reduced field of views (FoVs). However, existing learning pipelines are orientation-specific or FoV-specific, demanding separate model training for different ground view variations. Such models heavily depend on the North-aligned spatial correspondence and predefined FoVs in the training data, compromising their robustness across different settings. To tackle this challenge, we propose ConGeo, a single- and cross-view Contrastive method for Geo-localization: it enhances robustness and consistency in feature representations to improve a model’s invariance to orientation and its resilience to FoV variations, by enforcing proximity between ground view variations of the same location. As a generic learning objective for cross-view geo-localization, when integrated into state-of-the-art pipelines, ConGeo significantly boosts the performance of three base models on four geo-localization benchmarks for diverse ground view variations and outperforms competing methods that train separate models for each ground view variation.
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École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Wuhan University
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2024-12-05
978-3-031-72630-9
978-3-031-72629-3
18th European Conference, Milan, Italy, September 29–October 4, 2024, Proceedings
Part XIV
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); 15072
1611-3349
0302-9743
214
230
REVIEWED
EPFL
| Event name | Event acronym | Event place | Event date |
Milan, Italy | 2024-09-29 - 2024-10-04 | ||
| Funder | Funding(s) | Grant Number | Grant URL |
Sony Group Corporation | |||
EPFL Science Seed Fund | |||
Allen Institute | |||
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