ImLoc: Revisiting Visual Localization with Image-based Representation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04185v1
• Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:51:51 GMT
• Title: ImLoc: Revisiting Visual Localization with Image-based Representation
• Authors: Xudong Jiang, Fangjinhua Wang, Silvano Galliani, Christoph Vogel, Marc Pollefeys,
• Abstract summary: We propose to augment each image with estimated depth maps to capture the geometric structure.<n>This representation is easy to build and maintain, but achieves highest accuracy in challenging conditions.<n>Our method achieves a new state-of-the-art accuracy on various standard benchmarks and outperforms existing memory-efficient methods at comparable map sizes.
• Score: 61.282162006394934
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Existing visual localization methods are typically either 2D image-based, which are easy to build and maintain but limited in effective geometric reasoning, or 3D structure-based, which achieve high accuracy but require a centralized reconstruction and are difficult to update. In this work, we revisit visual localization with a 2D image-based representation and propose to augment each image with estimated depth maps to capture the geometric structure. Supported by the effective use of dense matchers, this representation is not only easy to build and maintain, but achieves highest accuracy in challenging conditions. With compact compression and a GPU-accelerated LO-RANSAC implementation, the whole pipeline is efficient in both storage and computation and allows for a flexible trade-off between accuracy and highest memory efficiency. Our method achieves a new state-of-the-art accuracy on various standard benchmarks and outperforms existing memory-efficient methods at comparable map sizes. Code will be available at https://github.com/cvg/Hierarchical-Localization.

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