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Learning a deep model from small data is yet an opening and challenging problem. We focus on one-shot classification by deep learning approach based on a small quantity of training samples. We proposed a novel deep learning approach named…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Chuanyun Xu , Yang Zhang , Xin Feng , YongXing Ge , Yihao Zhang , Jianwu Long

Autonomous driving systems often require reliable loop closure detection to guarantee reduced localization drift. Recently, 3D LiDAR-based localization methods have used retrieval-based place recognition to find revisited places…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Tiago Barros , Luís Garrote , Martin Aleksandrov , Cristiano Premebida , Urbano J. Nunes

This paper proposes to perform online clustering by conducting twin contrastive learning (TCL) at the instance and cluster level. Specifically, we find that when the data is projected into a feature space with a dimensionality of the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Yunfan Li , Mouxing Yang , Dezhong Peng , Taihao Li , Jiantao Huang , Xi Peng

When searching for objects in cluttered environments, it is often necessary to perform complex interactions in order to move occluding objects out of the way and fully reveal the object of interest and make it graspable. Due to the…

Multi-task Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs) aim to minimize routing costs while satisfying diverse constraints. Existing solvers typically adopt a unified reinforcement learning (RL) framework to learn generalizable patterns across tasks.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shuangchun Gui , Suyu Liu , Xuehe Wang , Zhiguang Cao

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

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 Language Navigation (VLN) is a fundamental task within the field of Embodied AI, focusing on the ability of agents to navigate complex environments based on natural language instructions. Despite the progress made by existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Ruoyu Wang , Tong Yu , Junda Wu , Yao Liu , Julian McAuley , Lina Yao

Unsupervised visual representation learning has gained much attention from the computer vision community because of the recent achievement of contrastive learning. Most of the existing contrastive learning frameworks adopt the instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mingkai Zheng , Fei Wang , Shan You , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Chang Xu

When faced with learning a set of inter-related tasks from a limited amount of usable data, learning each task independently may lead to poor generalization performance. Multi-Task Learning (MTL) exploits the latent relations between tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-08-14 Niloofar Yousefi , Michael Georgiopoulos , Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos

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

Classical pixel-based Visual Servoing (VS) approaches offer high accuracy but suffer from a limited convergence area due to optimization nonlinearity. Modern deep learning-based VS methods overcome traditional vision issues but lack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Salar Asayesh , Hossein Sheikhi Darani , Mo chen , Mehran Mehrandezh , Kamal Gupta

Multi-task representation learning (MTRL) is an approach that learns shared latent representations across related tasks, facilitating collaborative learning that improves the overall learning efficiency. This paper studies MTRL for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yaoze Guo , Shana Moothedath

In this work we propose a novel joint training method for Visual Place Recognition (VPR), which simultaneously learns a global descriptor and a pair classifier for re-ranking. The pair classifier can predict whether a given pair of images…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Stephen Hausler , Peyman Moghadam

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

Re-ranking is the second stage of a visual place recognition task, in which the system chooses the best-matching images from a pre-selected subset of candidates. Model-free approaches compute the image pair similarity based on a spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Tomáš Pivoňka , Libor Přeučil

Variational continual learning (VCL) is a turn-key learning algorithm that has state-of-the-art performance among the best continual learning models. In our work, we explore an extension of the generalized variational continual learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Fan Yang

We introduce $\textbf{Hierarchical Taylor Series-based Continual Learning (HTCL)}$, a framework that couples fast local adaptation with conservative, second-order global consolidation to address the high variance introduced by random task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Protik Nag , Krishnan Raghavan , Vignesh Narayanan

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

Video-based person re-identification (Re-ID) aims to automatically retrieve video sequences of the same person under non-overlapping cameras. To achieve this goal, it is the key to fully utilize abundant spatial and temporal cues in videos.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Xuehu Liu , Pingping Zhang , Chenyang Yu , Huchuan Lu , Xiaoyun Yang