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Images incorporate a wealth of information from a robot's surroundings. With the widespread availability of compact cameras, visual information has become increasingly popular for addressing the localisation problem, which is then termed as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Mihnea-Alexandru Tomita , Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) has been traditionally formulated as a single-image retrieval task. Using multiple views offers clear advantages, yet this setting remains relatively underexplored and existing methods often struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Tianchen Deng , Xun Chen , Ziming Li , Hongming Shen , Danwei Wang , Javier Civera , Hesheng Wang

Aerial imagery and its direct application to visual localization is an essential problem for many Robotics and Computer Vision tasks. While Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are the standard default solution for solving the aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Ivan Moskalenko , Anastasiia Kornilova , Gonzalo Ferrer

Recent studies show that the visual place recognition (VPR) method using pre-trained visual foundation models can achieve promising performance. In our previous work, we propose a novel method to realize seamless adaptation of foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Feng Lu , Tong Jin , Xiangyuan Lan , Lijun Zhang , Yunpeng Liu , Yaowei Wang , Chun Yuan

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

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

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

In vision-based robot localization and SLAM, Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is essential. This paper addresses the problem of VPR, which involves accurately recognizing the location corresponding to a given query image. A popular approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Soojin Woo , Seong-Woo Kim

In autonomous driving, robust place recognition is critical for global localization and loop closure detection. While inter-modality fusion of camera and LiDAR data in multimodal place recognition (MPR) has shown promise in overcoming the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jingyi Xu , Zhangshuo Qi , Zhongmiao Yan , Xuyu Gao , Qianyun Jiao , Songpengcheng Xia , Xieyuanli Chen , Ling Pei

Visual place recognition (VPR) is a fundamental task of computer vision for visual localization. Existing methods are trained using image pairs that either depict the same place or not. Such a binary indication does not consider continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Maria Leyva-Vallina , Nicola Strisciuglio , Nicolai Petkov

Place recognition and loop closure detection are challenging for long-term visual navigation tasks. SeqSLAM is considered to be one of the most successful approaches to achieving long-term localization under varying environmental conditions…

Place recognition is one of the most crucial modules for autonomous vehicles to identify places that were previously visited in GPS-invalid environments. Sensor fusion is considered an effective method to overcome the weaknesses of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Zijie Zhou , Jingyi Xu , Guangming Xiong , Junyi Ma

Over the past decade, most methods in visual place recognition (VPR) have used neural networks to produce feature representations. These networks typically produce a global representation of a place image using only this image itself and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Feng Lu , Xiangyuan Lan , Lijun Zhang , Dongmei Jiang , Yaowei Wang , Chun Yuan

Visual-inertial localization is a key problem in computer vision and robotics applications such as virtual reality, self-driving cars, and aerial vehicles. The goal is to estimate an accurate pose of an object when either the environment or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Felix Ott , Nisha Lakshmana Raichur , David Rügamer , Tobias Feigl , Heiko Neumann , Bernd Bischl , Christopher Mutschler

Compared to conventional cameras, event cameras provide a high dynamic range and low latency, offering greater robustness to rapid motion and challenging lighting conditions. Although the potential of event cameras for visual place…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Therese Joseph , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford

Significant advances have been made recently in Visual Place Recognition (VPR), feature correspondence, and localization due to the proliferation of deep-learning-based methods. However, existing approaches tend to address, partially or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Satyajit Tourani , Dhagash Desai , Udit Singh Parihar , Sourav Garg , Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla , Michael Milford , K. Madhava Krishna

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 a crucial component of many visual localization pipelines for embodied agents. VPR is often formulated as an image retrieval task aimed at jointly learning local features and an aggregation method. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Ahmad Khaliq , Ming Xu , Stephen Hausler , Michael Milford , Sourav Garg

Mesh-based scene representation offers a promising direction for simplifying large-scale hierarchical visual localization pipelines, combining a visual place recognition step based on global features (retrieval) and a visual localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Gabriele Berton , Lorenz Junglas , Riccardo Zaccone , Thomas Pollok , Barbara Caputo , Carlo Masone

Utilizing visual place recognition (VPR) technology to ascertain the geographical location of publicly available images is a pressing issue for real-world VPR applications. Although most current VPR methods achieve favorable results under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Gaoshuang Huang , Yang Zhou , Xiaofei Hu , Chenglong Zhang , Luying Zhao , Wenjian Gan , Mingbo Hou