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The aim of this chapter is to describe a new method for assigning a geographical position to an urban picture. The method is based only on the content of the picture. The photograph is compared to a sample of geolocated 3D images generated automatically from a virtual model of the terrain and the buildings. The relation between the picture and the images is built through the matching of detected lines in the photograph and in the image. The lines extraction is based on the Hough transform. This matching is followed by a statistical analysis to propose a probable location of the picture with an estimation of accuracy. The chapter presents and discusses the results of an experiment with data about Saint-Etienne, France and ends with proposals for improving and extending the method.
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Attia, Y., Joliveau, T., Favier, E. (2014). Line Matching for Integration of Photographic and Geographic Databases. In: Huerta, J., Schade, S., Granell, C. (eds) Connecting a Digital Europe Through Location and Place. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03611-3_14
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