10 accepted papers
Recent progress in vision-language pretraining has enabled significant improvements to many downstream computer vision applications, such as classification, retrieval, segmentation and depth prediction. However, a fundamental capability that these models still struggle with is aligning dense patch r
Visual imagery does not consist of solitary objects, but in-stead reflects the composition of a multitude of fluid con-cepts. While there have been great advances in visual repre-sentation learning, such advances have focused on buildingbetter representations for a small number of discrete objectsbe…
While image-text representation learning has become very popular in recent years, existing models tend to lack spatial awareness and have limited direct applicability for dense understanding tasks. For this reason, self-supervised image-only pretraining is still the go-to method for many dense visio…
The image matching field has been witnessing a continuous emergence of novel learnable feature matching techniques with ever-improving performance on conventional benchmarks. However our investigation shows that despite these gains their potential for real-world applications is restricted by their l…
Cooperative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (C-SLAM) is an active research topic in mobile robotics. However, its application in the field of autonomous driving is rare. While the advent of Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication has empowered Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) to exchange…
Image retrieval systems conventionally use a two-stage paradigm, leveraging global features for initial retrieval and local features for reranking. However, the scalability of this method is often limited due to the significant storage and computation cost incurred by local feature matching in the r…
Fine-grained and instance-level recognition methods are commonly trained and evaluated on specific domains, in a model per domain scenario. Such an approach, however, is impractical in real large-scale applications. In this work, we address the problem of universal image embedding, where a single un…
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is an essential technique for autonomous driving. Recently, combining image recognition technology to generate semantically meaningful maps has become a new trend in visual SLAM research. However, in the field of LiDAR SLAM, this potential has not been fu…
While image retrieval and instance recognition techniques are progressing rapidly, there is a need for challenging datasets to accurately measure their performance -- while posing novel challenges that are relevant for practical applications. We introduce the Google Landmarks Dataset v2 (GLDv2), a n…
Image retrieval is the problem of searching an image database for items that are similar to a query image. To address this task, two main types of image representations have been studied: global and local image features. In this work, our key contribution is to unify global and local features into a…