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Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a critical task in computer vision, traditionally enhanced by re-ranking retrieval results with image matching. However, recent advancements in VPR methods have significantly improved performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Davide Sferrazza , Gabriele Berton , Gabriele Trivigno , Carlo Masone

Visual place recognition is an important problem towards global localization in many robotics tasks. One of the biggest challenges is that it may suffer from illumination or appearance changes in surrounding environments. Event cameras are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Xiang Ji , Jiaxin Wei , Yifu Wang , Huiliang Shang , Laurent Kneip

Visual place recognition (VPR) is the problem of recognising a previously visited location using visual information. Many attempts to improve the performance of VPR methods have been made in the literature. One approach that has received…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Maria Waheed , Michael Milford , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

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) 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 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 a critical task for performing global re-localization in visual perception systems. It requires the ability to accurately recognize a previously visited location under variations such as illumination,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Oliver Grainge , Michael Milford , Indu Bodala , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn , Shoaib Ehsan

Visual place recognition methods struggle with occlusions and partial visual overlaps. We propose a novel visual place recognition approach based on overlap prediction, called VOP, shifting from traditional reliance on global image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Tong Wei , Philipp Lindenberger , Jiri Matas , Daniel Barath

In visual place recognition (VPR), filtering and sequence-based matching approaches can improve performance by integrating temporal information across image sequences, especially in challenging conditions. While these methods are commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Somayeh Hussaini , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford

Visual Place Recognition and Visual Localization are essential components in navigation and mapping for autonomous vehicles especially in GNSS-denied navigation scenarios. Recent work has focused on ground or close to ground applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Michael Schleiss , Fahmi Rouatbi , Daniel Cremers

In recent years there has been significant improvement in the capability of Visual Place Recognition (VPR) methods, building on the success of both hand-crafted and learnt visual features, temporal filtering and usage of semantic scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Mubariz Zaffar , Ahmad Khaliq , Shoaib Ehsan , Michael Milford , Klaus McDonald-Maier

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

Human visual scene understanding is so remarkable that we are able to recognize a revisited place when entering it from the opposite direction it was first visited, even in the presence of extreme variations in appearance. This capability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Sourav Garg , Niko Suenderhauf , Michael Milford

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

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

Visual Place Recognition is a task that aims to predict the place of an image (called query) based solely on its visual features. This is typically done through image retrieval, where the query is matched to the most similar images from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Gabriele Berton , Gabriele Trivigno , Barbara Caputo , Carlo Masone

Estimating the precise location of a camera using visual localization enables interesting applications such as augmented reality or robot navigation. This is particularly useful in indoor environments where other localization technologies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Donghwan Lee , Soohyun Ryu , Suyong Yeon , Yonghan Lee , Deokhwa Kim , Cheolho Han , Yohann Cabon , Philippe Weinzaepfel , Nicolas Guérin , Gabriela Csurka , Martin Humenberger

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

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

LiDAR Place Recognition (LPR) is a key component in robotic localization, enabling robots to align current scans with prior maps of their environment. While Visual Place Recognition (VPR) has embraced Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Minwoo Jung , Lanke Frank Tarimo Fu , Maurice Fallon , Ayoung Kim