3D Gaussian Splatting aided Localization for Large and Complex Indoor-Environments
The field of visual localization has been researched for several decades and has meanwhile found many practical applications. Despite the strong progress in this field, there are still challenging situations in which established methods fail. We present an approach to significantly improve the accur...
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| author | V. Ress J. Meyer J. Meyer W. Zhang D. Skuddis U. Soergel N. Haala |
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| description | The field of visual localization has been researched for several decades and has meanwhile found many practical applications. Despite the strong progress in this field, there are still challenging situations in which established methods fail. We present an approach to significantly improve the accuracy and reliability of established visual localization methods by adding rendered images. In detail, we first use a modern visual SLAM approach that provides a 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) based map to create reference data. We demonstrate that enriching reference data with images rendered from 3DGS at randomly sampled poses significantly improves the performance of both geometry-based visual localization and Scene Coordinate Regression (SCR) methods. Through comprehensive evaluation in a large industrial environment, we analyze the performance impact of incorporating these additional rendered views. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3e3a1b96cb8a4540a57091b0e2b669b82025-08-20T03:16:03ZengCopernicus PublicationsThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences1682-17502194-90342025-07-01XLVIII-G-20251283129010.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-G-2025-1283-20253D Gaussian Splatting aided Localization for Large and Complex Indoor-EnvironmentsV. Ress0J. Meyer1J. Meyer2W. Zhang3D. Skuddis4U. Soergel5N. Haala6Institute for Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics, University of Stuttgart, GermanyInstitute for Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics, University of Stuttgart, GermanyInstitute of Geomatics, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, SwitzerlandInstitute for Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics, University of Stuttgart, GermanyInstitute for Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics, University of Stuttgart, GermanyInstitute for Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics, University of Stuttgart, GermanyInstitute for Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics, University of Stuttgart, GermanyThe field of visual localization has been researched for several decades and has meanwhile found many practical applications. Despite the strong progress in this field, there are still challenging situations in which established methods fail. We present an approach to significantly improve the accuracy and reliability of established visual localization methods by adding rendered images. In detail, we first use a modern visual SLAM approach that provides a 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) based map to create reference data. We demonstrate that enriching reference data with images rendered from 3DGS at randomly sampled poses significantly improves the performance of both geometry-based visual localization and Scene Coordinate Regression (SCR) methods. Through comprehensive evaluation in a large industrial environment, we analyze the performance impact of incorporating these additional rendered views.https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLVIII-G-2025/1283/2025/isprs-archives-XLVIII-G-2025-1283-2025.pdf |
| spellingShingle | V. Ress J. Meyer J. Meyer W. Zhang D. Skuddis U. Soergel N. Haala 3D Gaussian Splatting aided Localization for Large and Complex Indoor-Environments The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences |
| title | 3D Gaussian Splatting aided Localization for Large and Complex Indoor-Environments |
| title_full | 3D Gaussian Splatting aided Localization for Large and Complex Indoor-Environments |
| title_fullStr | 3D Gaussian Splatting aided Localization for Large and Complex Indoor-Environments |
| title_full_unstemmed | 3D Gaussian Splatting aided Localization for Large and Complex Indoor-Environments |
| title_short | 3D Gaussian Splatting aided Localization for Large and Complex Indoor-Environments |
| title_sort | 3d gaussian splatting aided localization for large and complex indoor environments |
| url | https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLVIII-G-2025/1283/2025/isprs-archives-XLVIII-G-2025-1283-2025.pdf |
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