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Localization is an essential capability for mobile robots. A rapidly growing field of research in this area is Visual Place Recognition (VPR), which is the ability to recognize previously seen places in the world based solely on images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Stefan Schubert , Peer Neubert , Sourav Garg , Michael Milford , Tobias Fischer

The real world is dynamic, yet most image fusion methods process static frames independently, ignoring temporal correlations in videos and leading to flickering and temporal inconsistency. To address this, we propose Unified Video Fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Zixiang Zhao , Haowen Bai , Bingxin Ke , Yukun Cui , Lilun Deng , Yulun Zhang , Kai Zhang , Konrad Schindler

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the ability of a robotic platform to correctly interpret visual stimuli from its on-board cameras in order to determine whether it is currently located in a previously visited place, despite different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Mihnea-Alexandru Tomita , Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

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

Vision Language Place Recognition (VLVPR) enhances robot localization performance by incorporating natural language descriptions from images. By utilizing language information, VLVPR directs robot place matching, overcoming the constraint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Tianyi Shang , Zhenyu Li , Pengjie Xu , Jinwei Qiao

Advanced image fusion methods are devoted to generating the fusion results by aggregating the complementary information conveyed by the source images. However, the difference in the source-specific manifestation of the imaged scene content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Chunyang Cheng , Tianyang Xu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Hui Li , Xi Li , Zhangyong Tang , Josef Kittler

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a fundamental yet challenging task for small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The core reasons are the extreme viewpoint changes, and limited computational power onboard a UAV which restricts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Bruno Ferrarini , Maria Waheed , Sania Waheed , Shoaib Ehsan , Michael Milford , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

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

The inherent challenge of image fusion lies in capturing the correlation of multi-source images and comprehensively integrating effective information from different sources. Most existing techniques fail to perform dynamic image fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Bing Cao , Yinan Xia , Yi Ding , Changqing Zhang , Qinghua Hu

With a rapidly increasing amount and diversity of remote sensing (RS) data sources, there is a strong need for multi-view learning modeling. This is a complex task when considering the differences in resolution, magnitude, and noise of RS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Francisco Mena , Diego Arenas , Marlon Nuske , Andreas Dengel

Infrared and visible image fusion has emerged as a prominent research area in computer vision. However, little attention has been paid to the fusion task in complex scenes, leading to sub-optimal results under interference. To fill this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Xilai Li , Xiaosong Li , Tianshu Tan , Huafeng Li , Tao Ye

Identifying robust and accurate correspondences across images is a fundamental problem in computer vision that enables various downstream tasks. Recent semi-dense matching methods emphasize the effectiveness of fusing relevant cross-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Hongkai Chen , Zixin Luo , Yurun Tian , Xuyang Bai , Ziyu Wang , Lei Zhou , Mingmin Zhen , Tian Fang , David McKinnon , Yanghai Tsin , Long Quan

Visual place recognition tasks often encounter significant challenges in landmark detection due to the presence of irrelevant objects such as humans, cars, and trees, despite the remarkable progress achieved by previous models, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Mohammad Javad Rajabi , Morteza Mirzai , Ahmad Nickabadi

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

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) aiming at predicting the location of an image based solely on its visual features is a fundamental task in robotics and autonomous systems. Domain variation remains one of the main challenges in VPR and is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Shanshan Wan , Lai Kang , Yingmei Wei , Tianrui Shen , Haixuan Wang , Chao Zuo

The major challenge in audio-visual event localization task lies in how to fuse information from multiple modalities effectively. Recent works have shown that attention mechanism is beneficial to the fusion process. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Bin Duan , Hao Tang , Wei Wang , Ziliang Zong , Guowei Yang , Yan Yan

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) in mobile robotics enables robots to localize themselves by recognizing previously visited locations using visual data. While the reliability of VPR methods has been extensively studied under conditions such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Timur Ismagilov , Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Tan Viet Tuyen Nguyen , SD Ramchurn , Shoaib Ehsan

The characteristics of feature selection, nonlinear combination and multi-task auxiliary learning mechanism of the human visual perception system play an important role in real-world scenarios, but the research of image fusion theory based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Aiqing Fang , Xinbo Zhao , Jiaqi Yang , Yanning Zhang

Depth information is robust to scene appearance variations and inherently carries 3D spatial details. Thus, a visual backbone based on the vision transformer is proposed to fuse RGB and depth modalities for enhancing generalization in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zichun Xu , Jingdong Zhao , Chenyu Guo , Qianxue Zhang , Liao Zhang , Xiao Zhang , Yiming Ren , Lian Zhang , Zengren Zhao