Research Area: Image Localization

@inproceedings{wollam2026pose,
  author = {Wollam, Alexander and Ashley, Kyle and Shugaev, Maxim and Arend, Oliver and Semenov, Ilya Yevgeniyevich and Dashtestani, Hadis and Ravi, Sumved and Jacobs, Nathan},
  title = {Towards Unconstrained Cross-View Pose Estimation},
  booktitle = {IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
  pdf = {https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/WACV2026/papers/Wollam_Towards_Unconstrained_Cross-View_Pose_Estimation_WACV_2026_paper.pdf},
  month = mar,
  year = {2026}
}

@inproceedings{shugaev2024arcgeo,
  title = {{ArcGeo}: Localizing Limited Field-of-View Images using Cross-view Matching},
  author = {Shugaev, Maxim and Semenov, Ilya and Ashley, Kyle and Klaczynski, Michael and Cuntoor, Naresh and Lee, Mun Wai and Jacobs, Nathan},
  year = {2024},
  month = jan,
  pdf = {https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/WACV2024/papers/Shugaev_ArcGeo_Localizing_Limited_Field-of-View_Images_Using_Cross-View_Matching_WACV_2024_paper.pdf},
  booktitle = {IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer
                  Vision (WACV)},
}

@inproceedings{xiong2023stereo,
  title = {{StereoFlowGAN}: Co-training for Stereo and Flow with Unsupervised Domain Adaptation},
  author = {Xiong, Zhexiao and Qiao, Feng and Zhang, Yu and Jacobs, Nathan},
  year = {2023},
  month = nov,
  booktitle = {British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.01842.pdf},
  press = {https://engineering.wustl.edu/news/2023/Co-learning-to-improve-autonomous-driving.html},
  press_title = {Co-learning to improve autonomous driving},
  eprint = {2309.01842},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv}
}

@inproceedings{blanton2022structureaware,
  title = {A Structure-Aware Method for Direct Pose Estimation},
  author = {Blanton, Hunter and Workman, Scott and Jacobs, Nathan},
  year = {2022},
  doi = {10.1109/WACV51458.2022.00028},
  month = jan,
  booktitle = {IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.12360},
  primaryclass = {cs.CV},
  eprint = {2012.12360},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv}
}

@inproceedings{blanton2020slam,
  author = {Blanton, Hunter and Greenwell, Connor and Workman, Scott and Jacobs, Nathan},
  booktitle = {Joint Workshop on Long-Term Visual Localization, Visual Odometry and Geometric and Learning-based {SLAM} ({CVPR} Workshop)},
  title = {Extending Absolute Pose Regression to Multiple Scenes},
  tweet = {https://twitter.com/jacobsn/status/1273422126280826881},
  pdf = {http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPRW_2020/papers/w3/Blanton_Extending_Absolute_Pose_Regression_to_Multiple_Scenes_CVPRW_2020_paper.pdf},
  video = {https://youtu.be/qb2h1zVizMY},
  doi = {10.1109/CVPRW50498.2020.00027},
  month = aug,
  year = {2020},
}

@inproceedings{salem2020dynamic,
  author = {Salem, Tawfiq and Workman, Scott and Jacobs, Nathan},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  title = {Learning a Dynamic Map of Visual Appearance},
  doi = {10.1109/CVPR42600.2020.01245},
  month = jun,
  year = {2020},
  date-modified = {2020-03-31 16:54:47 -0400},
  project = {https://tsalem.github.io/DynamicMaps/},
  note = {Acceptance rate: 25\%},
  pdf = {http://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR_2020/papers/Salem_Learning_a_Dynamic_Map_of_Visual_Appearance_CVPR_2020_paper.pdf},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVTvgWLlJmM},
  tweet = {https://twitter.com/jacobsn/status/1272637141797961729},
}

@inproceedings{zhai2018geotemporal,
  author = {Zhai, Menghua and Salem, Tawfiq and Greenwell, Connor and Workman, Scott and Pless, Robert and Jacobs, Nathan},
  booktitle = {British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)},
  note = {Acceptance rate: 29.5\%},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.07499},
  title = {Learning Geo-Temporal Image Features},
  month = sep,
  year = {2018}
}

@inproceedings{vo2017revisit,
  author = {Vo, Nam and Jacobs, Nathan and Hays, James},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.04838},
  project = {https://www.cc.gatech.edu/%7envo9/revisitingim2gps_iccv2017/},
  title = {Revisiting {IM2GPS} in the Deep Learning Era},
  note = {Acceptance rate: 28.9\%},
  doi = {10.1109/ICCV.2017.286},
  month = oct,
  year = {2017}
}

@inproceedings{zhai2016mcmc,
  author = {Zhai, Menghua and Workman, Scott and Jacobs, Nathan},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
  title = {Camera Geo-Calibration using an {MCMC} Approach},
  month = sep,
  year = {2016},
  note = {Acceptance rate: 45\%},
  doi = {10.1109/ICIP.2016.7532905},
  pdf = {https://mvrl.github.io/pdf/zhai2016mcmc.pdf},
}

@misc{whitney2016method,
  title = {Method and System for Estimating Error in Predicted Distance
               Using {RSSI} Signature},
  author = {Whitney, Julie Ann Gordon and Fessler, John Thomas and Kratzer, Zachary Charles Nathan and Jacobs, Nathan Bradley and Whitney, Ann Michelle and others},
  year = {2016},
  month = jan,
  journal = {US Patent},
  volume = {2016/0003932}
}

@inproceedings{islam2015face2gps,
  author = {Islam, Mohammad T. and Workman, Scott and Jacobs, Nathan},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
  note = {Acceptance rate: 45\% (overall)},
  project = {https://mvrl.cse.wustl.edu/research/geofaces/},
  pubtype = {oral presentation},
  doi = {10.1109/ICIP.2015.7351072},
  title = {{Face2GPS}: Estimating Geographic Location from Facial Features},
  pdf = {https://mvrl.github.io/pdf/islam2015face2gps.pdf},
  month = sep,
  year = {2015},
}

@inproceedings{workman2015geocnn,
  author = {Workman, Scott and Jacobs, Nathan},
  booktitle = {IEEE/ISPRS Workshop: Large Scale Computer Vision for Remote Sensing (EARTHVISION)},
  note = {Acceptance rate: 30\%},
  pages = {1--9},
  pdf = {http://www.cv-foundation.org/openaccess/content_cvpr_workshops_2015/W13/papers/Workman_On_the_Location_2015_CVPR_paper.pdf},
  title = {On the Location Dependence of Convolutional Neural Network Features},
  doi = {10.1109/CVPRW.2015.7301385},
  month = jun,
  year = {2015}
}

@inproceedings{whitney2014rss,
  author = {Whitney, Ann and Fessler, John and Parker, Johne and Jacobs, Nathan},
  doi = {10.1109/AIM.2014.6878242},
  booktitle = {IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM)},
  pages = {1183--1187},
  title = {Received Signal Strength Indication Signature for Passive {UHF} Tags},
  month = jul,
  year = {2014}
}

@inproceedings{jacobs2011geolocate,
  author = {Jacobs, Nathan and Miskell, Kylia and Pless, Robert},
  booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
  doi = {10.1109/WACV.2011.5711494},
  pages = {132--138},
  pdf = {https://mvrl.github.io/pdf/jacobs2011geolocate.pdf},
  project = {/research/geolocate/},
  pubtype = {oral presentation},
  title = {Webcam Geo-localization using Aggregate Light Levels},
  note = {(oral)},
  month = jan,
  year = {2011}
}

@inproceedings{jacobs2008geoorient,
  author = {Jacobs, Nathan and Roman, Nathaniel and Pless, Robert},
  booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
  title = {Toward Fully Automatic Geo-Location and Geo-Orientation of Static Outdoor Cameras},
  year = {2008},
  month = jan,
  note = {Acceptance rate: 33.3\%},
  pages = {1--6},
  doi = {10.1109/WACV.2008.4544040},
  pdf = {https://mvrl.github.io/pdf/jacobs2008geoorient.pdf},
  pubtype = {oral presentation}
}

@inproceedings{jacobs2007geolocate,
  author = {Jacobs, Nathan and Satkin, Scott and Roman, Nathaniel and Speyer, Richard and Pless, Robert},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
  title = {Geolocating Static Cameras},
  year = {2007},
  month = oct,
  note = {Acceptance rate: 23\%},
  pages = {1--6},
  doi = {10.1109/ICCV.2007.4408995},
  pdf = {https://mvrl.github.io/pdf/jacobs2007geolocate.pdf},
  project = {/research/geolocate/},
}