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Multi-view 3D Objects Localization from Street-Level Scenes

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Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2022 (ICIAP 2022)

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This paper presents a method to localize street-level objects in 3D from images of an urban area. Our method processes 3D sparse point clouds reconstructed from multi-view images and leverages 2D instance segmentation to find all objects within the scene and to generate for each object the corresponding cluster of 3D points and matched 2D detections. The proposed approach is robust to changes in image sizes, viewpoint changes, and changes in the object’s appearance across different views. We validate our approach on challenging street-level crowd-sourced images from the Mapillary platform, showing a significant improvement in the mean average precision of object localization for the available Mapillary annotations. These results showcase our method’s effectiveness in localizing objects in 3D, which could potentially be used in applications such as high-definition map generation of urban environments. The code is publicly available (https://github.com/IIT-PAVIS/Multi-view-3D-Objects-Localization-from-Street-level-Scenes).

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 870743.

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    Javed Ahmad, Matteo Toso, Matteo Taiana, Stuart James & Alessio Del Bue

  2. Department of Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering, and Naval Architecture (DITEN), Universita degli Studi di Genova, Genoa, Italy

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Ahmad, J., Toso, M., Taiana, M., James, S., Del Bue, A. (2022). Multi-view 3D Objects Localization from Street-Level Scenes. In: Sclaroff, S., Distante, C., Leo, M., Farinella, G.M., Tombari, F. (eds) Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2022. ICIAP 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13232. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06430-2_8

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