The goal of street-to-aerial cross-view image geo-localization is to determine the location of the query street-view image by retrieving the aerial-view image from the same place.The drastic viewpoint and appearance g...The goal of street-to-aerial cross-view image geo-localization is to determine the location of the query street-view image by retrieving the aerial-view image from the same place.The drastic viewpoint and appearance gap between the aerial-view and the street-view images brings a huge challenge against this task.In this paper,we propose a novel multiscale attention encoder to capture the multiscale contextual information of the aerial/street-view images.To bridge the domain gap between these two view images,we first use an inverse polar transform to make the street-view images approximately aligned with the aerial-view images.Then,the explored multiscale attention encoder is applied to convert the image into feature representation with the guidance of the learnt multiscale information.Finally,we propose a novel global mining strategy to enable the network to pay more attention to hard negative exemplars.Experiments on standard benchmark datasets show that our approach obtains 81.39%top-1 recall rate on the CVUSA dataset and 71.52%on the CVACT dataset,achieving the state-of-the-art performance and outperforming most of the existing methods significantly.展开更多
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant/Award Number:62106177supported by the Central University Basic Research Fund of China(No.2042020KF0016)supported by the supercomputing system in the Supercomputing Center of Wuhan University.
文摘The goal of street-to-aerial cross-view image geo-localization is to determine the location of the query street-view image by retrieving the aerial-view image from the same place.The drastic viewpoint and appearance gap between the aerial-view and the street-view images brings a huge challenge against this task.In this paper,we propose a novel multiscale attention encoder to capture the multiscale contextual information of the aerial/street-view images.To bridge the domain gap between these two view images,we first use an inverse polar transform to make the street-view images approximately aligned with the aerial-view images.Then,the explored multiscale attention encoder is applied to convert the image into feature representation with the guidance of the learnt multiscale information.Finally,we propose a novel global mining strategy to enable the network to pay more attention to hard negative exemplars.Experiments on standard benchmark datasets show that our approach obtains 81.39%top-1 recall rate on the CVUSA dataset and 71.52%on the CVACT dataset,achieving the state-of-the-art performance and outperforming most of the existing methods significantly.
