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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…

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

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

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is critical for autonomous navigation, yet state-of-the-art methods lack well-calibrated uncertainty estimation. Standard pipelines cannot reliably signal when a query is ambiguous or a match is likely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Maya Yanko , Yoli Shavit

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

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) in indoor environments is beneficial to humans and robots for better localization and navigation. It is challenging due to appearance changes at various frequencies, and difficulties of obtaining ground truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Diwei Sheng , Anbang Yang , John-Ross Rizzo , Chen Feng

Place recognition plays a crucial role in navigational assistance, and is also a challenging issue of assistive technology. The place recognition is prone to erroneous localization owing to various changes between database and query images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Ruiqi Cheng , Kaiwei Wang , Jian Bai , Zhijie Xu

Visual place recognition is a fundamental capability for the localization of mobile robots. It places image retrieval in the practical context of physical agents operating in a physical world. It is an active field of research and many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Stefan Schubert , Peer Neubert

Visual place recognition (VPR) is a highly challenging task that has a wide range of applications, including robot navigation and self-driving vehicles. VPR is particularly difficult due to the presence of duplicate regions and the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Yifan Xu , Pourya Shamsolmoali , Jie Yang

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 2024-01-17 Bruno Arcanjo , Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

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

A key challenge in translating Visual Place Recognition (VPR) from the lab to long-term deployment is ensuring a priori that a system can meet user-specified performance requirements across different parts of an environment, rather than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Somayeh Hussaini , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) aims to estimate the location of the given query image within a database of geo-tagged images. To identify the exact location in an image, detecting landmarks is crucial. However, in some scenarios, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Dongyue Li , Daisuke Deguchi , Hiroshi Murase

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

Visual place recognition (VPR) enables autonomous systems to localize themselves within an environment using image information. While VPR techniques built upon a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) backbone dominate state-of-the-art VPR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Bruno Arcanjo , Bruno Ferrarini , Maria Fasli , Michael Milford , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) plays a critical role in many localization and mapping pipelines. It consists of retrieving the closest sample to a query image, in a certain embedding space, from a database of geotagged references. The image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Sergio Izquierdo , Javier Civera

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) 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) 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