Air-hloc: Adaptive Retrieved Images Selection For Efficient Visual Localisation

Abstract

State-of-the-art hierarchical localisation pipelines (HLoc) employ image retrieval (IR) to establish 2D-3D correspondences by selecting the top-\(k\) most similar images from a reference database. While increasing \(k\) improves localisation robustness, it also linearly increases computational cost and runtime, creating a significant bottleneck. This paper investigates the relationship between global and local descriptors, showing that greater similarity between the global descriptors of query and database images increases the proportion of feature matches. Low similarity queries significantly benefit from increasing \(k\), while high similarity queries rapidly experience diminishing returns. Building on these observations, we propose an adaptive strategy that adjusts \(k\) based on the similarity between the query's global descriptor and those in the database, effectively mitigating the feature-matching bottleneck. Our approach optimizes processing time without sacrificing accuracy. E

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