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After the incredible success of deep learning in the computer vision domain, there has been much interest in applying Convolutional Network (ConvNet) features in robotic fields such as visual navigation and SLAM. Unfortunately, there are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Niko Sünderhauf , Feras Dayoub , Sareh Shirazi , Ben Upcroft , Michael Milford

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is fundamental for the global re-localization of robots and devices, enabling them to recognize previously visited locations based on visual inputs. This capability is crucial for maintaining accurate mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Oliver Grainge , Michael Milford , Indu Bodala , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn , Shoaib Ehsan

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the ability to correctly recall a previously visited place under changing viewpoints and appearances. A large number of handcrafted and deep-learning-based VPR techniques exist, where the former suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Mihnea-Alexandru Tomită , Mubariz Zaffar , Michael Milford , Klaus McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

Visual place recognition (VPR) remains challenging due to significant viewpoint changes and appearance variations. Mainstream works tackle these challenges by developing various feature aggregation methods to transform deep features into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Teng Wang , Lingquan Meng , Lei Cheng , Changyin Sun

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown a strong ability in mining discriminative object pose and parts information for image recognition. For fine-grained recognition, context-aware rich feature representation of object/scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ardhendu Behera , Zachary Wharton , Pradeep Hewage , Asish Bera

A cross-domain visual place recognition (VPR) task is proposed in this work, i.e., matching images of the same architectures depicted in different domains. VPR is commonly treated as an image retrieval task, where a query image from an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Ziqi Wang , Jiahui Li , Seyran Khademi , Jan van Gemert

This paper addresses Visual Place Recognition (VPR), which is essential for the safe navigation of mobile robots. The solution we propose employs panoramic images and deep learning models, which are fine-tuned with triplet loss functions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Marcos Alfaro , Juan José Cabrera , María Flores , Óscar Reinoso , Luis Payá

Traditional visual place recognition (VPR), usually using standard cameras, is easy to fail due to glare or high-speed motion. By contrast, event cameras have the advantages of low latency, high temporal resolution, and high dynamic range,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Kuanxu Hou , Delei Kong , Junjie Jiang , Hao Zhuang , Xinjie Huang , Zheng Fang

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a crucial component of 6-DoF localization, visual SLAM and structure-from-motion pipelines, tasked to generate an initial list of place match hypotheses by matching global place descriptors. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Ahmad Khaliq , Michael Milford , Sourav Garg

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the ability of a robotic platform to correctly interpret visual stimuli from its on-board cameras in order to determine whether it is currently located in a previously visited place, despite different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Mihnea-Alexandru Tomita , Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

This paper adapts a general dataset representation technique to produce robust Visual Place Recognition (VPR) descriptors, crucial to enable real-world mobile robot localisation. Two parallel lines of work on VPR have shown, on one side,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Benjamin Ramtoula , Daniele De Martini , Matthew Gadd , Paul Newman

Visual place recognition (VPR) plays a crucial role in robotic localization and navigation. The key challenge lies in constructing feature representations that are robust to environmental changes. Existing methods typically adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Weiwei Wang , Meijia Wang , Haoyi Wang , Wenqiang Guo , Jiapan Guo , Changming Sun , Lingkun Ma , Weichuan Zhang

Visual place recognition (VPR) is crucial for robots to identify previously visited locations, playing an important role in autonomous navigation in both indoor and outdoor environments. However, most existing VPR datasets are limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yehui Shen , Lei Zhang , Qingqiu Li , Xiongwei Zhao , Yue Wang , Huimin Lu , Xieyuanli Chen

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is an important component in both computer vision and robotics applications, thanks to its ability to determine whether a place has been visited and where specifically. A major challenge in VPR is to handle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Peng Yin , Lingyun Xu , Xueqian Li , Chen Yin , Yingli Li , Rangaprasad Arun Srivatsan , Lu Li , Jianmin Ji , Yuqing He

Low-overhead visual place recognition (VPR) is a highly active research topic. Mobile robotics applications often operate under low-end hardware, and even more hardware capable systems can still benefit from freeing up onboard system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Bruno Arcanjo , Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) localizes a query image by matching it against a database of geo-tagged reference images, making it essential for navigation and mapping in robotics. Although Vision Transformer (ViT) solutions deliver high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Oliver Grainge , Michael Milford , Indu Bodala , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn , Shoaib Ehsan

We aim to localize objects in images using image-level supervision only. Previous approaches to this problem mainly focus on discriminative object regions and often fail to locate precise object boundaries. We address this problem by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Vadim Kantorov , Maxime Oquab , Minsu Cho , Ivan Laptev

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the process of recognising a previously visited place using visual information, often under varying appearance conditions and viewpoint changes and with computational constraints. VPR is related to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Mubariz Zaffar , Sourav Garg , Michael Milford , Julian Kooij , David Flynn , Klaus McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

We present a Visual Place Recognition system that follows the two-stage format common to image retrieval pipelines. The system encodes images of places by employing the activations of different layers of a pre-trained, off-the-shelf, VGG16…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Luis G. Camara , Libor Přeučil

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is crucial for robust mobile robot localization, yet it faces significant challenges in maintaining reliable performance under varying environmental conditions and viewpoints. To address this, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Haiyang Jiang , Songhao Piao , Chao Gao , Lei Yu , Liguo Chen