: Convolutional neural network monocular camera relocalization. Relocalization results for an input image (top), the predicted camera pose of a visual reconstruction (middle), shown again overlaid in red on the original image (bottom). Our system relocalizes to within approximately 2m and 3 • for large outdoor scenes spanning 50, 000m 2 . We present a robust and real-time monocular six degree of freedom relocalization system. Our system trains a convolutional neural network to regress the 6-DOF camera pose from a single RGB image in an end-to-end manner with no need of additional engineering or graph optimisation. The algorithm can operate indoors and outdoors in real time, taking 5ms per frame to compute. It obtains approximately 2m and 3 • accuracy for large scale outdoor scenes and 0.5m and 5 • accuracy indoors. This is achieved using an efficient 23 layer deep convnet, demonstrating that convnets can be used to solve complicated out of image plane regression problems. This was made possible by leveraging transfer learning from large scale classification data. We show the convnet localizes from high level features and is robust to difficult lighting, motion blur and different camera intrinsics where point based SIFT registration fails. Furthermore we show how the pose feature that is produced generalizes to other scenes allowing us to regress pose with only a few dozen training examples.
Our approach REF leverages convolutional network's advanced high level representations to regress the full 3D camera pose.
Convolutional networks for real-time 6-DOF camera relocalization
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