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by KaiserPro 843 days ago
A small team managed to implement relocalisation (the technical name for this) in 24 hours is reasonably interesting.

If you want to try yourself you can use colmap (https://colmap.github.io/faq.html#register-localize-new-imag...) to do the same thing. I suspect that colmap not only does lat:lon but gives you a heading as well. (well I know it does, thats how it )

Now, had they made it happen _on the drone_ that would be more interesting. It looks like it was a simulated flight, especially as there is no rolling shutter wobble. Moreover, if you want real time, you need a monster GPU, unless they've done something clever.