This
timely and authoritative volume explores the bidirectional relationship between
images and locations. The text presents a comprehensive review of the state of
the art in large-scale visual geo-localization, and discusses the emerging
trends in this area. Valuable insights are supplied by a pre-eminent selection
of experts in the field, into a varied range of real-world applications of
geo-localization. Topics and features: discusses the latest methods to exploit
internet-scale image databases for devising geographically rich features and
geo-localizing query images at different scales; investigates geo-localization
techniques that are built upon high-level and semantic cues; describes methods
that perform precise localization by geometrically aligning the query image
against a 3D model; reviews techniques that accomplish image understanding
assisted by the geo-location, as well as several approaches for geo-localization
under practical, real-world settings.