Implicit Learning of Scene Geometry from Poses for Global Localization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02029v1
• Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2023 16:51:23 GMT
• Title: Implicit Learning of Scene Geometry from Poses for Global Localization
• Authors: Mohammad Altillawi, Shile Li, Sai Manoj Prakhya, Ziyuan Liu, and Joan Serrat
• Abstract summary: Global visual localization estimates the absolute pose of a camera using a single image, in a previously mapped area. Many existing approaches directly learn and regress 6 DoF pose from an input image. We propose to utilize these minimal available labels to learn the underlying 3D geometry of the scene.
• Score: 7.077874294016776
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Global visual localization estimates the absolute pose of a camera using a single image, in a previously mapped area. Obtaining the pose from a single image enables many robotics and augmented/virtual reality applications. Inspired by latest advances in deep learning, many existing approaches directly learn and regress 6 DoF pose from an input image. However, these methods do not fully utilize the underlying scene geometry for pose regression. The challenge in monocular relocalization is the minimal availability of supervised training data, which is just the corresponding 6 DoF poses of the images. In this paper, we propose to utilize these minimal available labels (.i.e, poses) to learn the underlying 3D geometry of the scene and use the geometry to estimate the 6 DoF camera pose. We present a learning method that uses these pose labels and rigid alignment to learn two 3D geometric representations (\textit{X, Y, Z coordinates}) of the scene, one in camera coordinate frame and the other in global coordinate frame. Given a single image, it estimates these two 3D scene representations, which are then aligned to estimate a pose that matches the pose label. This formulation allows for the active inclusion of additional learning constraints to minimize 3D alignment errors between the two 3D scene representations, and 2D re-projection errors between the 3D global scene representation and 2D image pixels, resulting in improved localization accuracy. During inference, our model estimates the 3D scene geometry in camera and global frames and aligns them rigidly to obtain pose in real-time. We evaluate our work on three common visual localization datasets, conduct ablation studies, and show that our method exceeds state-of-the-art regression methods' pose accuracy on all datasets.

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