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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) is an essential component of robot navigation and localization systems that allows them to identify a place using only image data. VPR is challenging due to the significant changes in a place's appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Bruno Arcanjo , Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is vital for robot localization. To date, the most performant VPR approaches are environment- and task-specific: while they exhibit strong performance in structured environments (predominantly urban driving),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Nikhil Keetha , Avneesh Mishra , Jay Karhade , Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula , Sebastian Scherer , Madhava Krishna , Sourav Garg

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

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a fundamental task that allows a robotic platform to successfully localise itself in the environment. For decentralised VPR applications where the visual data has to be transmitted between several agents,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Mihnea-Alexandru Tomita , Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

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

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) often fails under extreme environmental changes and perceptual aliasing. Furthermore, standard systems cannot perform "blind" localization from verbal descriptions alone, a capability needed for applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ofer Idan , Dan Badur , Yosi Keller , Yoli Shavit

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) has advanced significantly with high-capacity foundation models like DINOv2, achieving remarkable performance. Nonetheless, their substantial computational cost makes deployment on resource-constrained devices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jaeyoon Kim , Yoonki Cho , Sung-Eui Yoon

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) in mobile robotics enables robots to localize themselves by recognizing previously visited locations using visual data. While the reliability of VPR methods has been extensively studied under conditions such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Timur Ismagilov , Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Tan Viet Tuyen Nguyen , SD Ramchurn , Shoaib Ehsan

Road segmentation in challenging domains, such as night, snow or rain, is a difficult task. Most current approaches boost performance using fine-tuning, domain adaptation, style transfer, or by referencing previously acquired imagery. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Connor Malone , Sourav Garg , Ming Xu , Thierry Peynot , Michael Milford

Given a query image, Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the task of retrieving an image of the same place from a reference database with robustness to viewpoint and appearance changes. Recent works show that some VPR benchmarks are solved by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Mubariz Zaffar , Liangliang Nan , Sebastian Scherer , Julian F. P. Kooij

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) enables systems to identify previously visited locations within a map, a fundamental task for autonomous navigation. Prior works have developed VPR solutions using event cameras, which asynchronously measure…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Vignesh Ramanathan , Michael Milford , Tobias Fischer

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

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a fundamental yet challenging task for small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The core reasons are the extreme viewpoint changes, and limited computational power onboard a UAV which restricts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Bruno Ferrarini , Maria Waheed , Sania Waheed , Shoaib Ehsan , Michael Milford , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

Visual place recognition (VPR) is critical in not only localization and mapping for autonomous driving vehicles, but also in assistive navigation for the visually impaired population. To enable a long-term VPR system on a large scale,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Diwei Sheng , Yuxiang Chai , Xinru Li , Chen Feng , Jianzhe Lin , Claudio Silva , John-Ross Rizzo

Visual place recognition (VPR) is an important component technology for camera-based mapping and navigation applications. This is a challenging problem because images of the same place may appear quite different for reasons including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Nick Trinh , Damian Lyons

In this paper we address the task of visual place recognition (VPR), where the goal is to retrieve the correct GPS coordinates of a given query image against a huge geotagged gallery. While recent works have shown that building descriptors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Valerio Paolicelli , Antonio Tavera , Carlo Masone , Gabriele Berton , Barbara Caputo

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 is a task that aims to predict the coordinates of an image (called query) based solely on visual clues. Most commonly, a retrieval approach is adopted, where the query is matched to the most similar images from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Giovanni Barbarani , Mohamad Mostafa , Hajali Bayramov , Gabriele Trivigno , Gabriele Berton , Carlo Masone , Barbara Caputo