Continual Learning for Image-Based Camera Localization

Shuzhe Wang, Zakaria Laskar, Iaroslav Melekhov, Xiaotian Li, Juho Kannala; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021, pp. 3252-3262

Abstract


For several emerging technologies such as augmented reality, autonomous driving and robotics, visual localization is a critical component. Directly regressing camera pose/3D scene coordinates from the input image using deep neural networks has shown great potential. However, such methods assume a stationary data distribution with all scenes simultaneously available during training. In this paper, we approach the problem of visual localization in a continual learning setup -- whereby the model is trained on scenes in an incremental manner. Our results show that similar to the classification domain, non-stationary data induces catastrophic forgetting in deep networks for visual localization. To address this issue, a strong baseline based on storing and replaying images from a fixed buffer is proposed. Furthermore, we propose a new sampling method based on coverage score (Buff-CS) that adapts the existing sampling strategies in the buffering process to the problem of visual localization. Results demonstrate consistent improvements over standard buffering methods on two challenging datasets -- 7Scenes, 12Scenes, and also 19Scenes by combining the former scenes.

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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Wang_2021_ICCV, author = {Wang, Shuzhe and Laskar, Zakaria and Melekhov, Iaroslav and Li, Xiaotian and Kannala, Juho}, title = {Continual Learning for Image-Based Camera Localization}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)}, month = {October}, year = {2021}, pages = {3252-3262} }