Detecting and Matching Repeated Patterns for Automatic Geo-Tagging in Urban Environments

Abstract

We present a novel method for automatically geo-tagging photographs of man-made environments via detection and matching of repeated patterns. Highly repetitive environments introduce numerous correspondence ambiguities and are problematic for traditional wide-baseline matching methods. Our method exploits the highly repetitive nature of urban environments, detecting multiple perspectively distorted periodic 2D patterns in an image and matching them to a 3D database of textured facades by reasoning about the underlying canonical forms of each pattern. Multiple 2D-to-3D pattern correspondences enable robust recovery of camera orientation and location. We demonstrate the success of this method in a large urban environment.

Cite

Text

Schindler et al. "Detecting and Matching Repeated Patterns for Automatic Geo-Tagging in Urban Environments." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2008. doi:10.1109/CVPR.2008.4587461

Markdown

[Schindler et al. "Detecting and Matching Repeated Patterns for Automatic Geo-Tagging in Urban Environments." IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2008.](https://mlanthology.org/cvpr/2008/schindler2008cvpr-detecting/) doi:10.1109/CVPR.2008.4587461

BibTeX

@inproceedings{schindler2008cvpr-detecting,
  title     = {{Detecting and Matching Repeated Patterns for Automatic Geo-Tagging in Urban Environments}},
  author    = {Schindler, Grant and Krishnamurthy, Panchapagesan and Lublinerman, Roberto and Liu, Yanxi and Dellaert, Frank},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  year      = {2008},
  doi       = {10.1109/CVPR.2008.4587461},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/cvpr/2008/schindler2008cvpr-detecting/}
}