Vojtěch Pánek

I am a PhD student at CIIRC CTU in Prague, under the supervision of Torsten Sattler. Currently, my main focus is on visual localization.

I've studied my Bachelor's and Master's degrees at FEE, CTU in Prague, dealing with a generation of NDT maps from CAD floor plans and visual robot localization using an omnidirectional camera.

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At the moment, I focus mainly on exploring the use of non-standard representations for the visual localization task.

Exploring the use of 3D models from the Internet for visual localization and studies studies how the imperfections of these models affect localization accuracy. Accompanied by the benchmark.

Visual localization pipeline storing just 3D mesh as the representation of the environment. Rendering virtual views and using modern local features on-the-fly. Suprisingly can work somehow even on meshes without any color information.

Two-stage visual localization pipeline with environment outlines (floor plans / buildings from OSM) as environment representation. Using retrieval on set of local outlines for coarse pose estimate and ICP for pose refinement.