Graph-Based Image Matching for Indoor Localization

View Synthesis with Scene Recognition for Cross-View Image Localization

Image-based localization has been widely used for autonomous vehicles, robotics, augmented reality, etc., and this is carried out by matching a query image taken from a cell phone or vehicle dashcam to a large scale of geo-tagged reference images, such as satellite/aerial images or Google Street Views. However, the problem remains challenging due to the inconsistency between the query images and the large-scale reference datasets regarding various light and weather conditions. To tackle this issue, this work proposes a novel view synthesis framework equipped with deep generative models, which can merge the unique features from the outdated reference dataset with features from the images containing seasonal changes. Our design features a unique scheme to ensure that the synthesized images contain the important features from both reference and patch images, covering seasonable features and minimizing the gap for the image-based localization tasks. The performance evaluation shows that the proposed framework can synthesize the views in various weather and lighting conditions.

Improved Indoor Fingerprinting Localization Method Using Clustering Algorithm and Dynamic Compensation

Many indoor fingerprinting localization methods are based on signal-domain distances with large localization error and low stability. An improved fingerprinting localization method using a clustering algorithm and dynamic compensation was proposed. In the offline stage, the fingerprint database was built and clustered based on offline hybrid distance and an affinity propagation clustering algorithm. Furthermore, clusters were adjusted using transition regions and a given radius, as well as updating the corresponding position and fingerprint of the cluster centroid. In the online stage, the lost received signal strength (RSS) in the reference fingerprint would be dynamically compensated by using a minimum RSS value, rather than a fixed one. Online signal-domain distance was calculated for cluster identification based on RSS readings and compensated reference fingerprint. Then, K reference points with minimum online signal-domain distances were selected, and affinity propagation clustering was reused by position-domain distances to choose the position-concentrated sub-cluster for location estimation. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art fingerprinting methods, with the mean error of 2.328 m, the root mean square error of 1.865 m and the maximum error of 10.722 m in a testbed of 3200 square meters. The improvement rates, in terms of accuracy and stability, are more than 21% and 13%, respectively.

Structural Correlation Based Method for Image Forgery Classification and Localization

In the image forgery problems, previous works has been chiefly designed considering only one of two forgery types: copy-move and splicing. In this paper, we propose a scheme to handle both copy-move and splicing image forgery by concurrently classifying the image forgery types and localizing the forged regions. The structural correlations between images are employed in the forgery clustering algorithm to assemble relevant images into clusters. Then, we search for the matching of image regions inside each cluster to classify and localize tampered images. Comprehensive experiments are conducted on three datasets (MICC-600, GRIP, and CASIA 2) to demonstrate the better performance in forgery classification and localization of the proposed method in comparison with state-of-the-art methods. Further, in copy-move localization, the source and target regions are explicitly specified.