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The task of Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is to predict the location of a query image from a database of geo-tagged images. Recent studies in VPR have highlighted the significant advantage of employing pre-trained foundation models like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Issar Tzachor , Boaz Lerner , Matan Levy , Michael Green , Tal Berkovitz Shalev , Gavriel Habib , Dvir Samuel , Noam Korngut Zailer , Or Shimshi , Nir Darshan , Rami Ben-Ari

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 aimed at predicting the location of a query image by referencing a database of geotagged images. For VPR task, often fewer discriminative local regions in an image produce important effects while mundane…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Changwei Wang , Shunpeng Chen , Yukun Song , Rongtao Xu , Zherui Zhang , Jiguang Zhang , Haoran Yang , Yu Zhang , Kexue Fu , Shide Du , Zhiwei Xu , Longxiang Gao , Li Guo , Shibiao Xu

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the process of recognising a previously visited place using visual information, often under varying appearance conditions and viewpoint changes and with computational constraints. VPR is related to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Mubariz Zaffar , Sourav Garg , Michael Milford , Julian Kooij , David Flynn , Klaus McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

This paper adapts a general dataset representation technique to produce robust Visual Place Recognition (VPR) descriptors, crucial to enable real-world mobile robot localisation. Two parallel lines of work on VPR have shown, on one side,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Benjamin Ramtoula , Daniele De Martini , Matthew Gadd , Paul Newman

Maintaining roads is crucial to economic growth and citizen well-being because roads are a vital means of transportation. In various countries, the inspection of road surfaces is still done manually, however, to automate it, research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Linh Trinh , Ali Anwar , Siegfried Mercelis

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

This paper proposes an approach that predicts the road course from camera sensors leveraging deep learning techniques. Road pixels are identified by training a multi-scale convolutional neural network on a large number of full-scene-labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Matthias Limmer , Julian Forster , Dennis Baudach , Florian Schüle , Roland Schweiger , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

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

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

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 usually considered as a specific image retrieval problem. Limited by existing training frameworks, most deep learning-based works cannot extract sufficiently stable global features from RGB images and rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Yanqing Shen , Sanping Zhou , Jingwen Fu , Ruotong Wang , Shitao Chen , Nanning Zheng

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

Visual place recognition (VPR) is a highly challenging task that has a wide range of applications, including robot navigation and self-driving vehicles. VPR is particularly difficult due to the presence of duplicate regions and the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Yifan Xu , Pourya Shamsolmoali , Jie Yang

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

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) aims to estimate the location of the given query image within a database of geo-tagged images. To identify the exact location in an image, detecting landmarks is crucial. However, in some scenarios, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Dongyue Li , Daisuke Deguchi , Hiroshi Murase

This paper presents the preliminary findings of a semi-supervised segmentation method for extracting roads from sattelite images. Artificial Neural Networks and image segmentation methods are among the most successful methods for extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Ahmet Alp Kindiroglu , Metehan Yalçın , Furkan Burak Bağcı , Mahiye Uluyağmur Öztürk

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

Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) is a new and inherently multi-task problem, which aims to detect, segment, and track each instance in a video sequence. Existing approaches are mainly based on single-frame features or single-scale features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Xiangtai Li , Hao He , Yibo Yang , Henghui Ding , Kuiyuan Yang , Guangliang Cheng , Yunhai Tong , Dacheng Tao

Visual place recognition (VPR) using deep networks has achieved state-of-the-art performance. However, most of them require a training set with ground truth sensor poses to obtain positive and negative samples of each observation's spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Chao Chen , Zegang Cheng , Xinhao Liu , Yiming Li , Li Ding , Ruoyu Wang , Chen Feng