Perceiving Systems, Computer Vision

Lost! Leveraging the Crowd for Probabilistic Visual Self-Localization

2013

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In this paper we propose an affordable solution to self- localization, which utilizes visual odometry and road maps as the only inputs. To this end, we present a probabilis- tic model as well as an efficient approximate inference al- gorithm, which is able to utilize distributed computation to meet the real-time requirements of autonomous systems. Because of the probabilistic nature of the model we are able to cope with uncertainty due to noisy visual odometry and inherent ambiguities in the map ( e.g ., in a Manhattan world). By exploiting freely available, community devel- oped maps and visual odometry measurements, we are able to localize a vehicle up to 3m after only a few seconds of driving on maps which contain more than 2,150km of driv- able roads.

Award: (CVPR13 Best Paper Runner-Up)
Author(s): Marcus A. Brubaker and Andreas Geiger and Raquel Urtasun
Book Title: IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2013)
Pages: 3057-3064
Year: 2013
Month: June
Publisher: IEEE

Department(s): Autonomous Vision, Perceiving Systems
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)
Paper Type: Conference

Address: Portland, OR
Award Paper: CVPR13 Best Paper Runner-Up

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BibTex

@inproceedings{Brubaker2013CVPR,
  title = {Lost! Leveraging the Crowd for Probabilistic Visual Self-Localization},
  author = {Brubaker, Marcus A. and Geiger, Andreas and Urtasun, Raquel},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2013)},
  pages = {3057-3064},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  address = {Portland, OR},
  month = jun,
  year = {2013},
  doi = {},
  month_numeric = {6}
}