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In this paper we address the task of visual place recognition (VPR), where the goal is to retrieve the correct GPS coordinates of a given query image against a huge geotagged gallery. While recent works have shown that building descriptors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Valerio Paolicelli , Antonio Tavera , Carlo Masone , Gabriele Berton , Barbara Caputo

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the task of matching current visual imagery from a camera to images stored in a reference map of the environment. While initial VPR systems used simple direct image methods or hand-crafted visual features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Sourav Garg , 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

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

In vision-based robot localization and SLAM, Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is essential. This paper addresses the problem of VPR, which involves accurately recognizing the location corresponding to a given query image. A popular approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Soojin Woo , Seong-Woo Kim

Effective monitoring of underwater ecosystems is crucial for tracking environmental changes, guiding conservation efforts, and ensuring long-term ecosystem health. However, automating underwater ecosystem management with robotic platforms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Beverley Gorry , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford , Alejandro Fontan

Event stream-based Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is an emerging research direction that offers a compelling solution to the instability of conventional visible-light cameras under challenging conditions such as low illumination,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Xiao Wang , Xingxing Xiong , Jinfeng Gao , Xufeng Lou , Bo Jiang , Si-bao Chen , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian

Recognising previously visited locations is an important, but unsolved, task in autonomous navigation. Current visual place recognition (VPR) benchmarks typically challenge models to recover the position of a query image (or images) from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Anil Ozdemir , Mark Scerri , Andrew B. Barron , Andrew Philippides , Michael Mangan , Eleni Vasilaki , Luca Manneschi

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

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) has been a subject of significant research over the last 15 to 20 years. VPR is a fundamental task for autonomous navigation as it enables self-localization within an environment. Although robots are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Rose Power , Mubariz Zaffar , Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors capable of providing a continuous stream of events with low latency and high dynamic range. As a single event only carries limited information about the brightness change at a particular pixel, events…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford

Compared to conventional cameras, event cameras provide a high dynamic range and low latency, offering greater robustness to rapid motion and challenging lighting conditions. Although the potential of event cameras for visual place…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Therese Joseph , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford

Visual place recognition is a critical task in computer vision, especially for localization and navigation systems. Existing methods often rely on contrastive learning: image descriptors are trained to have small distance for similar images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 María Leyva-Vallina , Nicola Strisciuglio , Nicolai Petkov

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

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 (VPR) is a crucial part of mobile robotics and autonomous driving as well as other computer vision tasks. It refers to the process of identifying a place depicted in a query image using only computer vision. At…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Amar Ali-bey , Brahim Chaib-draa , Philippe Giguère

Can knowing where you are assist in perceiving objects in your surroundings, especially under adverse weather and lighting conditions? In this work we investigate whether a prior map can be leveraged to aid in the detection of dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Stephen Hausler , Sourav Garg , Punarjay Chakravarty , Shubham Shrivastava , Ankit Vora , Michael Milford

Visual place recognition (VPR) is one of the research hotspots in robotics, which uses visual information to locate robots. Recently, the hierarchical two-stage VPR methods have become popular in this field due to the trade-off between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Feng Lu , Lijun Zhang , Shuting Dong , Baifan Chen , Chun Yuan

This paper presents an approach for creating a visual place recognition (VPR) database for localization in indoor environments from RGBD scanning sequences. The proposed approach is formulated as a minimization problem in terms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Anastasiia Kornilova , Ivan Moskalenko , Timofei Pushkin , Fakhriddin Tojiboev , Rahim Tariverdizadeh , Gonzalo Ferrer

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is crucial in computer vision, aiming to retrieve database images similar to a query image from an extensive collection of known images. However, like many vision tasks, VPR always degrades at night due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Bingxi Liu , Yiqun Wang , Huaqi Tao , Tingjun Huang , Fulin Tang , Yihong Wu , Jinqiang Cui , Hong Zhang