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Poster

ConGeo: Robust Cross-view Geo-localization across Ground View Variations

Li Mi · Chang Xu · Javiera Castillo Navarro · SYRIELLE MONTARIOL · Wen Yang · Antoine Bosselut · Devis Tuia

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Fri 4 Oct 1:30 a.m. PDT — 3:30 a.m. PDT

Abstract:

Cross-view geo-localization aims at localizing a ground-level query image by matching it to its corresponding geo-referenced aerial view. In real-world scenarios, the task requires handling diverse ground images captured by users with varying orientations and field of views (FoVs). However, existing learning pipelines are orientation-specific or FoV-specific, requiring separate training for different settings. Such models heavily depend on the North-aligned spatial correspondence and specific FoVs in the training data, compromising the models' robustness in ground view variations. We propose ConGeo, a single- and cross-modal Contrastive method for Geo-localization: it enhances robustness and consistency in feature representations to improve a model's invariance to orientation and its resilience to FoV variations, by enforcing proximity between ground view variations of the same location. As a generic learning objective for cross-view geo-localization, when integrated into state-of-the-art pipelines, ConGeo significantly boosts the performance of three base models on four geo-localization benchmarks for diverse ground view variations and outperforms competing methods that train separate models for each ground view variation.

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