Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 18, Issue 5, 300(2022)

Geo-localization based on CNN feature matching

Jin TANG1...2, Cheng GONG1, Fan GUO2,*, Zirong YANG2 and Zhihu WU2 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
  • 2School of Automation, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
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    A geo-localization method is proposed for military and civilian applications, which is used when no global navigation satellite system (GNSS) information is available. The open graphics library (OpenGL) is used to build a three-dimensional geographic model of the test area using digital elevation model (DEM) data, and the skyline can thus be extracted with the model to form a database. Then, MultiSkip DeepLab (MS-DeepLab), a fully convolutional semantic segmentation network with multiple skip structures, is proposed to extract the skyline from the query image. Finally, a matching model based on convolutional neural network (CNN) feature is adopted to calculate the similarity between the skyline features of the query image and the DEM database to realize automatic geo-localization. The experiments are conducted at a 202.6 km2 test site in north-eastern Changsha, China. 50 test points are selected to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, and an excellent result with an average positioning error of 49.29 m is obtained.

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    TANG Jin, GONG Cheng, GUO Fan, YANG Zirong, WU Zhihu. Geo-localization based on CNN feature matching[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2022, 18(5): 300

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    Paper Information

    Received: Sep. 16, 2021

    Accepted: Oct. 28, 2021

    Published Online: Jan. 20, 2023

    The Author Email: Fan GUO (guofancsu@163.com)

    DOI:10.1007/s11801-022-1148-0

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