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CityLoc method generates pose distributions for text-based 3D scene localization

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Researchers have developed CityLoc, a novel method for localizing textual descriptions within large-scale 3D scenes. This approach addresses the inherent ambiguities in such tasks by generating distributions of camera poses conditioned on text, enabling more robust reasoning for broadly defined concepts. The system utilizes a diffusion-based architecture and integrates with CLIP for text-pose linkage, further enhanced by 3D Gaussian splatting for visual reasoning to correct misaligned samples. CityLoc has demonstrated superior performance compared to standard distribution estimation methods across five large-scale datasets. AI

IMPACT This research could improve how AI systems understand and interact with complex 3D environments based on natural language descriptions.

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CityLoc method generates pose distributions for text-based 3D scene localization

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Qi Ma, Runyi Yang, Bin Ren, Nicu Sebe, Ender Konukoglu, Luc Van Gool, Danda Pani Paudel ·

    CityLoc: 6DoF Pose Distributional Localization for Text Descriptions in Large-Scale Scenes with Gaussian Representation

    arXiv:2501.08982v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Localizing textual descriptions within large-scale 3D scenes presents inherent ambiguities, such as identifying all traffic lights in a city. Addressing this, we introduce a method to generate distributions of camera poses condi…

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