Visual localization is an essential component of intelligent transportation
systems, enabling broad applications that require understanding one's self
location when other sensors are not available. It is mostly tackled by image
retrieval such that the location of a query image is determined by its closest
match in the previously collected images. Existing approaches focus on large
scale localization where landmarks are helpful in finding the location.
However, visual localization becomes challenging in small scale environments
where objects are hardly recognizable. In this paper, we propose a visual
localization framework that robustly finds the match for a query among the
images collected from indoor parking lots. It is a challenging problem when the
vehicles in the images share similar appearances and are frequently replaced
such as parking lots. We propose to employ a deep dense local feature matching
that resembles human perception to find correspondences and eliminating matches
from vehicles automatically with a vehicle detector. The proposed solution is
robust to the scenes with low textures and invariant to false matches caused by
vehicles. We compare our framework with alternatives to validate our
superiority on a benchmark dataset containing 267 pre-collected images and 99
query images taken from 34 sections of a parking lot. Our method achieves 86.9
percent accuracy, outperforming the alternatives.

本文提出了一种使用深度密集局部特征匹配和车辆检测器相结合的视觉定位框架，以消除车辆造成的虚假匹配，实现对室内停车场的定位，并在基准数据集上取得了 86.9% 的准确率，表现优于现有方法。