A Scene is Worth a Thousand Features: Feed-Forward Camera Localization from a Collection of Image Features
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| author | Barroso-Laguna, Axel Cavallari, Tommaso Prisacariu, Victor Adrian Brachmann, Eric |
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| contents | Visually localizing an image, i.e., estimating its camera pose, requires building a scene representation that serves as a visual map. The representation we choose has direct consequences towards the practicability of our system. Even when starting from mapping images with known camera poses, state-of-the-art approaches still require hours of mapping time in the worst case, and several minutes in the best. This work raises the question whether we can achieve competitive accuracy much faster. We introduce FastForward, a method that creates a map representation and relocalizes a query image on-the-fly in a single feed-forward pass. At the core, we represent multiple mapping images as a collection of features anchored in 3D space. FastForward utilizes these mapping features to predict image-to-scene correspondences for the query image, enabling the estimation of its camera pose. We couple FastForward with image retrieval and achieve state-of-the-art accuracy when compared to other approaches with minimal map preparation time. Furthermore, FastForward demonstrates robust generalization to unseen domains, including challenging large-scale outdoor environments. |
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| spellingShingle | A Scene is Worth a Thousand Features: Feed-Forward Camera Localization from a Collection of Image Features Barroso-Laguna, Axel Cavallari, Tommaso Prisacariu, Victor Adrian Brachmann, Eric Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Visually localizing an image, i.e., estimating its camera pose, requires building a scene representation that serves as a visual map. The representation we choose has direct consequences towards the practicability of our system. Even when starting from mapping images with known camera poses, state-of-the-art approaches still require hours of mapping time in the worst case, and several minutes in the best. This work raises the question whether we can achieve competitive accuracy much faster. We introduce FastForward, a method that creates a map representation and relocalizes a query image on-the-fly in a single feed-forward pass. At the core, we represent multiple mapping images as a collection of features anchored in 3D space. FastForward utilizes these mapping features to predict image-to-scene correspondences for the query image, enabling the estimation of its camera pose. We couple FastForward with image retrieval and achieve state-of-the-art accuracy when compared to other approaches with minimal map preparation time. Furthermore, FastForward demonstrates robust generalization to unseen domains, including challenging large-scale outdoor environments. |
| title | A Scene is Worth a Thousand Features: Feed-Forward Camera Localization from a Collection of Image Features |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00978 |