ActLoc: Learning to Localize on the Move via Active Viewpoint Selection

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Main Authors: Li, Jiajie, Sun, Boyang, Di Giammarino, Luca, Blum, Hermann, Pollefeys, Marc
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Published: 2025
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author Li, Jiajie
Sun, Boyang
Di Giammarino, Luca
Blum, Hermann
Pollefeys, Marc
author_facet Li, Jiajie
Sun, Boyang
Di Giammarino, Luca
Blum, Hermann
Pollefeys, Marc
contents Reliable localization is critical for robot navigation, yet most existing systems implicitly assume that all viewing directions at a location are equally informative. In practice, localization becomes unreliable when the robot observes unmapped, ambiguous, or uninformative regions. To address this, we present ActLoc, an active viewpoint-aware planning framework for enhancing localization accuracy for general robot navigation tasks. At its core, ActLoc employs a largescale trained attention-based model for viewpoint selection. The model encodes a metric map and the camera poses used during map construction, and predicts localization accuracy across yaw and pitch directions at arbitrary 3D locations. These per-point accuracy distributions are incorporated into a path planner, enabling the robot to actively select camera orientations that maximize localization robustness while respecting task and motion constraints. ActLoc achieves stateof-the-art results on single-viewpoint selection and generalizes effectively to fulltrajectory planning. Its modular design makes it readily applicable to diverse robot navigation and inspection tasks.
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spellingShingle ActLoc: Learning to Localize on the Move via Active Viewpoint Selection
Li, Jiajie
Sun, Boyang
Di Giammarino, Luca
Blum, Hermann
Pollefeys, Marc
Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Reliable localization is critical for robot navigation, yet most existing systems implicitly assume that all viewing directions at a location are equally informative. In practice, localization becomes unreliable when the robot observes unmapped, ambiguous, or uninformative regions. To address this, we present ActLoc, an active viewpoint-aware planning framework for enhancing localization accuracy for general robot navigation tasks. At its core, ActLoc employs a largescale trained attention-based model for viewpoint selection. The model encodes a metric map and the camera poses used during map construction, and predicts localization accuracy across yaw and pitch directions at arbitrary 3D locations. These per-point accuracy distributions are incorporated into a path planner, enabling the robot to actively select camera orientations that maximize localization robustness while respecting task and motion constraints. ActLoc achieves stateof-the-art results on single-viewpoint selection and generalizes effectively to fulltrajectory planning. Its modular design makes it readily applicable to diverse robot navigation and inspection tasks.
title ActLoc: Learning to Localize on the Move via Active Viewpoint Selection
topic Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20981