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Visual place recognition (VPR) is a robot's ability to determine whether a place was visited before using visual data. While conventional hand-crafted methods for VPR fail under extreme environmental appearance changes, those based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the ability to correctly recall a previously visited place using visual information under environmental, viewpoint and appearance changes. An emerging trend in VPR is the use of sequence-based filtering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Mihnea-Alexandru Tomită , Mubariz Zaffar , Michael Milford , Klaus McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

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

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) enables robots and autonomous vehicles to identify previously visited locations by matching current observations against a database of known places. However, VPR systems face significant challenges when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Emily Miller , Michael Milford , Muhammad Burhan Hafez , SD Ramchurn , Shoaib Ehsan

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

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

A cross-domain visual place recognition (VPR) task is proposed in this work, i.e., matching images of the same architectures depicted in different domains. VPR is commonly treated as an image retrieval task, where a query image from an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Ziqi Wang , Jiahui Li , Seyran Khademi , Jan van Gemert

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

Ensuring accurate localization of robots in environments without GPS capability is a challenging task. Visual Place Recognition (VPR) techniques can potentially achieve this goal, but existing RGB-based methods are sensitive to changes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yujia Lin , Nicholas Evans

This paper addresses the problem of discovering the objects present in a collection of images without any supervision. We build on the optimization approach of Vo et al. (CVPR'19) with several key novelties: (1) We propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Huy V. Vo , Patrick Pérez , Jean Ponce

Place recognition plays a crucial role in the fields of robotics and computer vision, finding applications in areas such as autonomous driving, mapping, and localization. Place recognition identifies a place using query sensor data and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Sijie Wang , Qiyu Kang , Rui She , Kai Zhao , Yang Song , Wee Peng Tay