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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a standard approach for visual recognition due to their capacity to learn hierarchical representations from raw pixels. In practice, practitioners often choose among (i) training a compact custom CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Annoor Sharara Akhand

Traditional visual place recognition (VPR) methods generally use frame-based cameras, which is easy to fail due to dramatic illumination changes or fast motions. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end visual place recognition network for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Delei Kong , Zheng Fang , Haojia Li , Kuanxu Hou , Sonya Coleman , Dermot Kerr

LBP is a successful hand-crafted feature descriptor in computer vision. However, in the deep learning era, deep neural networks, especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can automatically learn powerful task-aware features that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Zhuo Su , Matti Pietikäinen , Li Liu

Recently, the methods based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained popularity in the field of visual place recognition (VPR). In particular, the features from the middle layers of CNNs are more robust to drastic appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Feng Lu , Baifan Chen , Xiang-Dong Zhou , Dezhen Song

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is an image-based localization method that estimates the camera location of a query image by retrieving the most similar reference image from a map of geo-tagged reference images. In this work, we look into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Mubariz Zaffar , Liangliang Nan , Julian Francisco Pieter Kooij

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) has seen significant advances at the frontiers of matching performance and computational superiority over the past few years. However, these evaluations are performed for ground-based mobile platforms and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Mubariz Zaffar , Ahmad Khaliq , Shoaib Ehsan , Michael Milford , Kostas Alexis , Klaus McDonald-Maier

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) enables robots and autonomous vehicles to identify previously visited locations by matching current observations against a database of known places. However, VPR systems face significant challenges when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Emily Miller , Michael Milford , Muhammad Burhan Hafez , SD Ramchurn , Shoaib Ehsan

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) in long-term deployment requires reasoning beyond pixel similarity: systems must make transparent, interpretable decisions that remain robust under lighting, weather and seasonal change. We present Text2Graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Saeideh Yousefzadeh , Hamidreza Pourreza

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a scene-oriented image retrieval problem in computer vision in which re-ranking based on local features is commonly employed to improve performance. In robotics, VPR is also referred to as Loop Closure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Bingxi Liu , Hao Chen , Shiyi Guo , Yihong Wu , Jinqiang Cui , Hong Zhang

Visual place recognition (VPR) is usually considered as a specific image retrieval problem. Limited by existing training frameworks, most deep learning-based works cannot extract sufficiently stable global features from RGB images and rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Yanqing Shen , Sanping Zhou , Jingwen Fu , Ruotong Wang , Shitao Chen , Nanning Zheng

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) approaches have typically attempted to match places by identifying visual cues, image regions or landmarks that have high ``utility'' in identifying a specific place. But this concept of utility is not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Nikhil Varma Keetha , Michael Milford , Sourav Garg

In this paper, we propose a new image-based visual place recognition (VPR) framework by exploiting the structural cues in bird's-eye view (BEV) from a single monocular camera. The motivation arises from two key observations about place…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Fudong Ge , Yiwei Zhang , Shuhan Shen , Yue Wang , Weiming Hu , Jin Gao

Food recognition is one of the most important components in image-based dietary assessment. However, due to the different complexity level of food images and inter-class similarity of food categories, it is challenging for an image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Runyu Mao , Jiangpeng He , Zeman Shao , Sri Kalyan Yarlagadda , Fengqing Zhu

We address the problem of visual place recognition with perceptual changes. The fundamental problem of visual place recognition is generating robust image representations which are not only insensitive to environmental changes but also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Zhe Xin , Yinghao Cai , Tao Lu , Xiaoxia Xing , Shaojun Cai , Jixiang Zhang , Yiping Yang , Yanqing Wang

LiDAR-based place recognition (LPR) is one of the most crucial components of autonomous vehicles to identify previously visited places in GPS-denied environments. Most existing LPR methods use mundane representations of the input point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Junyi Ma , Guangming Xiong , Jingyi Xu , Xieyuanli Chen

Large-scale visual place recognition (VPR) is inherently challenging because not all visual cues in the image are beneficial to the task. In order to highlight the task-relevant visual cues in the feature embedding, the existing attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Guohao Peng , Yufeng Yue , Jun Zhang , Zhenyu Wu , Xiaoyu Tang , Danwei Wang

A recent approach to the Visual Place Recognition (VPR) problem has been to fuse the place recognition estimates of multiple complementary VPR techniques simultaneously. However, selecting the optimal set of techniques to use in a specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Stephen Hausler , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the ability to correctly recall a previously visited place using visual information under environmental, viewpoint and appearance changes. An emerging trend in VPR is the use of sequence-based filtering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Mihnea-Alexandru Tomită , Mubariz Zaffar , Michael Milford , Klaus McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

Visual place recognition (VPR) enables autonomous robots to identify previously visited locations, which contributes to tasks like simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). VPR faces challenges such as accurate image neighbor retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Taiyi Pan , Junyang He , Chao Chen , Yiming Li , Chen Feng

A key challenge in visual place recognition (VPR) is recognizing places despite drastic visual appearance changes due to factors such as time of day, season, weather or lighting conditions. Numerous approaches based on deep-learnt image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Timothy L. Molloy , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford , Girish N. Nair