| Paper ID | IVMSP-25.6 |
| Paper Title |
Hierarchical Attention Fusion for Geo-Localization |
| Authors |
Liqi Yan, Westlake University, China; Yiming Cui, University of Florida, United States; Yingjie Chen, Dongfang Liu, Purdue University, United States |
| Session | IVMSP-25: Tracking |
| Location | Gather.Town |
| Session Time: | Thursday, 10 June, 16:30 - 17:15 |
| Presentation Time: | Thursday, 10 June, 16:30 - 17:15 |
| Presentation |
Poster
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| Topic |
Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing: [IVARS] Image & Video Analysis, Synthesis, and Retrieval |
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| Abstract |
Geo-localization is a critical task in computer vision. In this work, we cast the geo-localization as a 2D image retrieval task. Current state-of-the-art methods for 2D geo-localization are not robust to locate a scene with drastic scale variations because they only exploit features from one semantic level for image representations. To address this limitation, we introduce a hierarchical attention fusion network using multi-scale features for geo-localization. We extract the hierarchical feature maps from a convolutional neural network (CNN) and organically fuse the extracted features for image representations. Our training is self-supervised using adaptive weights to control the attention of feature emphasis from each hierarchical level for the location prediction. Evaluation results on the image retrieval and the large-scale geo-localization benchmarks indicate that our method outperforms the existing state-of-the-art methods. Code is available here: https://github.com/YanLiqi/HAF. |
