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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2021
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Royston Rodrigues, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiro Tani, Tokyo, JP;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image matching apparatus () acquires a ground-view image (), an aerial-view image (), a ground depth image (), and an aerial depth image (). The ground depth image () indicates distance from a ground camera to each location captured in the ground-view image (). The aerial depth image () indicates distance from a center location captured in the aerial-view image to each location captured in the aerial-view image (). The image matching apparatus () extracts features from the ground-view image and the ground depth image to compute ground feature (), and extract features from the aerial-view image and the aerial depth image to compute aerial feature (). The image matching apparatus () determines whether or not the ground-view image () and the aerial-view image () match each other using the ground feature () and the aerial feature ().
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