Image Based Camera Localization: an Overview
This is an incremental contribution as it organizes existing knowledge for researchers, engineers, and others interested in applications like virtual reality and robotics.
The paper provides an overview of image-based camera localization, addressing the lack of a complete review in the field by presenting a new classification system and introducing related techniques, with the result being a resource to help people quickly enter the area.
Recently, virtual reality, augmented reality, robotics, autonomous driving et al attract much attention of both academic and industrial community, in which image based camera localization is a key task. However, there has not been a complete review on image-based camera localization. It is urgent to map this topic to help people enter the field quickly. In this paper, an overview of image based camera localization is presented. A new and complete kind of classifications for image based camera localization is provided and the related techniques are introduced. Trends for the future development are also discussed. It will be useful to not only researchers but also engineers and other people interested.