Continuous Self-Localization on Aerial Images Using Visual and Lidar Sensors

Florian Fervers,Sebastian Bullinger,Christoph Bodensteiner,Michael Arens,Rainer Stiefelhagen,Florian Fervers,Sebastian Bullinger,Christoph Bodensteiner,Michael Arens,Rainer Stiefelhagen

This paper proposes a novel method for geo-tracking, i.e. continuous metric self-localization in outdoor environments by registering a vehicle's sensor information with aerial imagery of an unseen target region. Geo- tracking methods offer the potential to supplant noisy signals from global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) and expensive and hard to maintain prior maps that are typically used fo...