Research Article

Efficient ConvNet Feature Extraction with Multiple RoI Pooling for Landmark-Based Visual Localization of Autonomous Vehicles

Table 1

Main properties of four testing datasets used in our experiments. For a dataset with multiple subsets, two subsets with extreme changes are listed below and will be matched in our experiments. “No.” indicates the number of images in a subset. “—” means the change is negligible.

Dataset Subset No. Main changes
Illumination Shadow Season Viewpoint

UACampus [35]06:20
22:15
649
647
large

St. Lucia [36]2009-09-10 08:45
2009-09-11 15:45
1000
1000
moderatelargeminor

Nordland [37]Spring
winter
1000
1000
largelarge

Mapillary [38]mploop1
mploop2
2028
2028
moderatelarge