We were pretty mad at the reviewer but they turned out to be reasonable. I understand the frustration that classical methods are often overlooked. Here, it was a genuine oversight. I did not know the E5+1 solver. Including it made the paper stronger.
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Visually localizing an image, i.e., estimating its camera pose, requires building a scene representation that serves as a visual map. The representation we choose has direct consequences towards...