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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

Visual place recognition is the task of recognizing a place depicted in an image based on its pure visual appearance without metadata. In visual place recognition, the challenges lie upon not only the changes in lighting conditions, camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Duc Canh Le , Chan Hyun Youn

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

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) in areas with similar scenes such as urban or indoor scenarios is a major challenge. Existing VPR methods using global descriptors have difficulty capturing local specific regions (LSR) in the scene and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Yingfeng Cai , Junqiao Zhao , Jiafeng Cui , Fenglin Zhang , Chen Ye , Tiantian Feng

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) 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

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 localization is the problem of estimating the position and orientation from which a given image (or a sequence of images) is taken in a known scene. It is an important part of a wide range of computer vision and robotics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Ara Jafarzadeh , Manuel Lopez Antequera , Pau Gargallo , Yubin Kuang , Carl Toft , Fredrik Kahl , Torsten Sattler

With the development of smart cities, the demand for continuous pedestrian navigation in large-scale urban environments has significantly increased. While global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) provide low-cost and reliable positioning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Liqiang Zhang , Ye Tian , Dongyan Wei

Absolute Pose Regression (APR) predicts 6D camera poses but lacks the adaptability to unknown environments without retraining, while Relative Pose Regression (RPR) generalizes better yet requires a large image retrieval database. Visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Junwei Zheng , Ruiping Liu , Yufan Chen , Zhenfang Chen , Kailun Yang , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Mobile robots necessitate advanced natural language understanding capabilities to accurately identify locations and perform tasks such as package delivery. However, traditional visual place recognition (VPR) methods rely solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Tianyi Shang , Zhenyu Li , Pengjie Xu , Jinwei Qiao , Gang Chen , Zihan Ruan , Weijun Hu

Visual place recognition is a challenging task for applications such as autonomous driving navigation and mobile robot localization. Distracting elements presenting in complex scenes often lead to deviations in the perception of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Ruotong Wang , Yanqing Shen , Weiliang Zuo , Sanping Zhou , Nanning Zheng

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 relocalization has been a widely discussed problem in 3D vision: given a pre-constructed 3D visual map, the 6 DoF (Degrees-of-Freedom) pose of a query image is estimated. Relocalization in large-scale indoor environments enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Jiahui Zhang , Shitao Tang , Kejie Qiu , Rui Huang , Chuan Fang , Le Cui , Zilong Dong , Siyu Zhu , Ping Tan

Probabilistic state-estimation approaches offer a principled foundation for designing localization systems, because they naturally integrate sequences of imperfect motion and exteroceptive sensor data. Recently, probabilistic localization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Ming Xu , Tobias Fischer , Niko Sünderhauf , Michael Milford

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

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

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) 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) has seen significant advances at the frontiers of matching performance and computational superiority over the past few years. However, these evaluations are performed for ground-based mobile platforms and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Mubariz Zaffar , Ahmad Khaliq , Shoaib Ehsan , Michael Milford , Kostas Alexis , Klaus McDonald-Maier