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Typical attempts to improve the capability of visual place recognition techniques include the use of multi-sensor fusion and integration of information over time from image sequences. These approaches can improve performance but have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Stephen Hausler , Adam Jacobson , Michael Milford

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

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) 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

Combining multiple complementary techniques together has long been regarded as a way to improve performance. In visual localization, multi-sensor fusion, multi-process fusion of a single sensing modality, and even combinations of different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Stephen Hausler , Michael Milford

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) refers to the process of using computer vision to recognize the position of the current query image. Due to the significant changes in appearance caused by season, lighting, and time spans between query images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Xuan Yu , Zhenyong Fu

In this work we propose a novel joint training method for Visual Place Recognition (VPR), which simultaneously learns a global descriptor and a pair classifier for re-ranking. The pair classifier can predict whether a given pair of images…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Stephen Hausler , Peyman Moghadam

Visual place recognition (VPR) is an essential component of many autonomous and augmented/virtual reality systems. It enables the systems to robustly localize themselves in large-scale environments. Existing VPR methods demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Yuhang Ming , Minyang Xu , Xingrui Yang , Weicai Ye , Weihan Wang , Yong Peng , Weichen Dai , Wanzeng Kong

We address multi-reference visual place recognition (VPR), where reference sets captured under varying conditions are used to improve localisation performance. While deep learning with large-scale training improves robustness, increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Timur Ismagilov , Shakaiba Majeed , Michael Milford , Tan Viet Tuyen Nguyen , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn , Shoaib Ehsan

Visual place recognition (VPR) is a robot's ability to determine whether a place was visited before using visual data. While conventional hand-crafted methods for VPR fail under extreme environmental appearance changes, those based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) enables robust localization through image retrieval based on learned descriptors. However, drastic appearance variations of images at the same place caused by viewpoint changes can lead to inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Qiwen Gu , Xufei Wang , Junqiao Zhao , Siyue Tao , Tiantian Feng , Ziqiao Wang , Guang Chen

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) - the act of recognizing a familiar visual place - becomes difficult when there is extreme environmental appearance change or viewpoint change. Particularly challenging is the scenario where both phenomena…

While substantial progress has been made in the absolute performance of localization and Visual Place Recognition (VPR) techniques, it is becoming increasingly clear from translating these systems into applications that other capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Helen Carson , Jason J. Ford , Michael Milford

Mobile robots and autonomous vehicles are often required to function in environments where critical position estimates from sensors such as GPS become uncertain or unreliable. Single image visual place recognition (VPR) provides an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Connor Malone , Ankit Vora , Thierry Peynot , Michael Milford

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the task of retrieving database images similar to a query photo by comparing it to a large database of known images. In real-world applications, extreme illumination changes caused by query images taken at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Bingxi Liu , Yujie Fu , Feng Lu , Jinqiang Cui , Yihong Wu , Hong Zhang

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is often characterized as being able to recognize the same place despite significant changes in appearance and viewpoint. VPR is a key component of Spatial Artificial Intelligence, enabling robotic platforms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Sourav Garg , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford

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

Recent studies show that vision models pre-trained in generic visual learning tasks with large-scale data can provide useful feature representations for a wide range of visual perception problems. However, few attempts have been made to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Feng Lu , Lijun Zhang , Xiangyuan Lan , Shuting Dong , Yaowei Wang , Chun Yuan

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