Virtual reference view generation for CBIR-based visual pose estimation

  • Authors:
  • Robert Huitl;Georg Schroth;Sebastian Hilsenbeck;Florian Schweiger;Eckehard Steinbach

  • Affiliations:
  • Technische Universität München, München, Germany;Technische Universität München, München, Germany;Technische Universität München, München, Germany;Technische Universität München, München, Germany;Technische Universität München, München, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Determining the pose of a mobile device based on visual information is a promising approach to solve the indoor localization problem. We present an approach that transforms localized images along a mapping trajectory into virtual viewpoints that cover a set of densely sampled camera positions and orientations in a confined environment. The viewpoints are represented by their respective bag-of-features vectors and image retrieval techniques are applied to determine the most likely pose of query images at very low computational complexity. As virtual image locations and orientations are decoupled from actual image locations, the system is able to work with sparse reference imagery and copes well with perspective distortion. Experiments confirm that pose retrieval performance is significantly improved.