VOLoc: Visual Place Recognition by Querying Compressed Lidar Map

Xudong Cai,Yongcai Wang,Zhe Huang,Yu Shao,Deying Li,Xudong Cai,Yongcai Wang,Zhe Huang,Yu Shao,Deying Li

The availability of city-scale Lidar maps enables the potential of city-scale place recognition using mobile cameras. However, the city-scale Lidar maps generally need to be compressed for storage efficiency, which increases the difficulty of direct visual place recognition in compressed Lidar maps. This paper proposes VOLoc, an accurate and efficient visual place recognition method that exploits ...