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Orienternet: Visual localization in 2d public maps with neural matching

Paul-Edouard Sarlin, Daniel DeTone, Tsun-Yi Yang, Armen Avetisyan, Julian Straub, Tomasz Malisiewicz, Samuel Rota Bulo, Richard Newcombe, Peter Kontschieder, Vasileios Balntas

We introduce the first deep neural network that can accurately localize an image using the same 2D semantic maps that humans use to orient themselves. OrienterNet leverages free and global maps from OpenStreetMap and is thus more accessible and more efficient than existing approaches.