POI-Loc: A Fine-Grained POI Localization Benchmark and an Asymmetric Global-to-Local Matching Method

arXiv:2609.02012v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Point-of-interest (POI) localization matches user-provided storefront close-ups to the same shops in wide, geo-tagged vehicle-mounted street views. POIs may change while the surrounding scene stays similar, so scene-level recognition alone cannot establish POI identity. Differences in target scale and capture domains further challenge matching. We introduce POI-Loc, to our knowledge the first benchmark dedicated to this asymmetric, fine-grained POI localization task. Many visual place recognition methods represent each image with a single global vector, which tends to dilute fine-grained features of small storefronts amid background clutter. We propose GLAM (Global-to-Local Asymmetric Matching) to combine global and local evidence. In stage one, a single attention-pooled query probe is matched against compact reference region tokens via learnable soft top-k interaction, with the resulting local similarity fused with global similarity for retrieval. Stage two reuses query region tokens before attention pooling and stored reference tokens for mutual-nearest-neighbor re-ranking. GLAM surpasses both global and two-stage baselines on Recall@1/5/10 and mAP, with about $5\times$ smaller re-ranking features and $280\times$ lower per-pair matching cost than FoL. The benchmark and code will be released at https://github.com/roadhan/glam.