Benchmarking Image Retrieval for Visual Localization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11946v2
• Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 07:19:03 GMT
• Title: Benchmarking Image Retrieval for Visual Localization
• Authors: No\'e Pion, Martin Humenberger, Gabriela Csurka, Yohann Cabon, Torsten Sattler
• Abstract summary: Visual localization is a core component of technologies such as autonomous driving and augmented reality. It is common practice to use state-of-the-art image retrieval algorithms for these tasks. This paper focuses on understanding the role of image retrieval for multiple visual localization tasks.
• Score: 41.38065116577011
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Visual localization, i.e., camera pose estimation in a known scene, is a core component of technologies such as autonomous driving and augmented reality. State-of-the-art localization approaches often rely on image retrieval techniques for one of two tasks: (1) provide an approximate pose estimate or (2) determine which parts of the scene are potentially visible in a given query image. It is common practice to use state-of-the-art image retrieval algorithms for these tasks. These algorithms are often trained for the goal of retrieving the same landmark under a large range of viewpoint changes. However, robustness to viewpoint changes is not necessarily desirable in the context of visual localization. This paper focuses on understanding the role of image retrieval for multiple visual localization tasks. We introduce a benchmark setup and compare state-of-the-art retrieval representations on multiple datasets. We show that retrieval performance on classical landmark retrieval/recognition tasks correlates only for some but not all tasks to localization performance. This indicates a need for retrieval approaches specifically designed for localization tasks. Our benchmark and evaluation protocols are available at https://github.com/naver/kapture-localization.

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