Visual map matching and localization using a global feature map

@article{Pink2008VisualMM,
  title={Visual map matching and localization using a global feature map},
  author={Oliver Pink},
  journal={2008 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops},
  year={2008},
  pages={1-7},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:1550411}
}
This paper presents a novel method to support environmental perception of mobile robots by the use of a global feature map that allows for estimating the robot position at a higher precision than by a purely GPS-based localization, while at the same time providing information about the environment far beyond the current field of view.
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