Localization technologies have been an important focus in ubiquitous computing. This paper explores an underrepresented area,
namely computer vision technology, for outdoor positioning. More specifically we explore two modes of positioning in a challenging
real world scenario: single snapshot based positioning, improved by a novel high-dimensional feature matching method, and
continuous positioning enabled by combination of snapshot and incremental positioning. Quite interestingly, vision enables
localization accuracies comparable to GPS. Furthermore the paper also analyzes and compares possibilities offered by the combination
of different subsets of positioning technologies such as WiFi, GPS and dead reckoning in the same real world scenario as for
vision based positioning.
Keywords computer vision based positioning - local invariant features - sensor fusion for outdoor localization