Target localization based on cross-view matching between UAV and satellite

Matching remote sensing images taken by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with satellite remote sensing images with geolocation information. Thus, the specific geographic location of the target object captured by the UAV is determined. Its main challenge is the considerable differences in the visual content of remote sensing images acquired by satellites and UAVs, such as dramatic changes in viewpoint, unknown orientations, etc. Much of the previous work has focused on image matching of homologous data. To overcome the difficulties caused by the difference between these two data modes and maintain robustness in visual positioning, a quality-aware template matching method based on scale-adaptive deep convolutional features is proposed by deeply mining their common features. The template size feature map and the reference image feature map are first obtained. The two feature maps obtained are used to measure the similarity. Finally, a heat map representing the probability of matching is generated to determine the best match in the reference image. The method is applied to the latest UAV-based geolocation dataset (University-1652 dataset) and the real-scene campus data we collected with UAVs. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the method.     

顾及动态物体感知的增强型视觉SLAM系统

传统的同步定位与制图（Simultaneous localization and mapping, SLAM）系统在复杂环境下工作时，无法分辨环境中的物体是否存在运动状态，图像中运动的物体可能导致特征关联错误，引起定位的不准确和地图构建的偏差。为了提高SLAM系统在动态环境下的鲁棒性和可靠性，本文提出了一种顾及动态物体感知的增强型视觉SLAM系统。首先，使用深度学习网络对每一帧图像的动态物体进行初始检测，然后使用多视图几何方法更加精细地判断目标检测无法确定的动态物体区域。通过剔除属于动态物体上的特征跟踪点，提高系统的鲁棒性。本文方法在公共数据集TUM和KITTI上进行了测试，结果表明在动态场景中定位结果的准确度有了明显提升，尤其在高动态序列中相对于原始算法的精度提升在92%以上。与其他顾及动态场景的SLAM系统相比，本文方法在保持精度优势的同时，提高了运行结果的稳定性和时间效率。