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The paper proposes a solution to the problem of geolocation of a photograph based on comparison of its content to a geolocated database of street view images. The proposed algorithm allows the pinpointing of the location where a photograph was taken. In order to solve this problem we have proposed an algorithm based on MPEG-7 features. We have conducted large-scale tests (4% of area of the city of Krakow, Poland) that prove that the algorithm is characterized by high accuracy at the cost of high computing power required.
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Grega, M., Łach, S., Cyganek, B. (2012). INSTREET - Application for Urban Photograph Localization. In: Dziech, A., Czyżewski, A. (eds) Multimedia Communications, Services and Security. MCSS 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 287. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30721-8_13
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