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Visual place recognition (VPR) enables autonomous systems to localize themselves within an environment using image information. While VPR techniques built upon a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) backbone dominate state-of-the-art VPR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Bruno Arcanjo , Bruno Ferrarini , Maria Fasli , Michael Milford , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

In a Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system, a loop-closure can eliminate accumulated errors, which is accomplished by Visual Place Recognition (VPR), a task that retrieves the current scene from a set of pre-stored sequential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Nie Jiwei , Feng Joe-Mei , Xue Dingyu , Pan Feng , Liu Wei , Hu Jun , Cheng Shuai

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

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) plays a crucial role in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) navigation, enabling robust localization across diverse environments. Despite significant advancements, aerial vPR faces unique challenges due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ioannis Tsampikos Papapetros , Ioannis Kansizoglou , Antonios Gasteratos

In visual place recognition (VPR), map segmentation (MS) is a preprocessing technique used to partition a given view-sequence map into place classes (i.e., map segments) so that each class has good place-specific training images for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Tanaka Kanji

Visual place recognition (VPR) is a fundamental task for many applications such as robot localization and augmented reality. Recently, the hierarchical VPR methods have received considerable attention due to the trade-off between accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Feng Lu , Shuting Dong , Lijun Zhang , Bingxi Liu , Xiangyuan Lan , Dongmei Jiang , Chun Yuan

Place Recognition is a crucial capability for mobile robot localization and navigation. Image-based or Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a challenging problem as scene appearance and camera viewpoint can change significantly when places are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Sourav Garg , Michael Milford

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

Typical attempts to improve the capability of visual place recognition techniques include the use of multi-sensor fusion and integration of information over time from image sequences. These approaches can improve performance but have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Stephen Hausler , Adam Jacobson , Michael Milford

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) in indoor environments is beneficial to humans and robots for better localization and navigation. It is challenging due to appearance changes at various frequencies, and difficulties of obtaining ground truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Diwei Sheng , Anbang Yang , John-Ross Rizzo , Chen Feng

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

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

Uniform and variable environments still remain a challenge for stable visual localization and mapping in mobile robot navigation. One of the possible approaches suitable for such environments is appearance-based teach-and-repeat navigation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Václav Truhlařík , Tomáš Pivoňka , Michal Kasarda , Libor Přeučil

LiDAR-based place recognition (LPR) plays a pivotal role in autonomous driving, which assists Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems in reducing accumulated errors and achieving reliable localization. However, existing reviews…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Yongjun Zhang , Pengcheng Shi , Jiayuan Li

Visual Place Recognition is an essential component of systems for camera localization and loop closure detection, and it has attracted widespread interest in multiple domains such as computer vision, robotics and AR/VR. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Rui Huang , Ze Huang , Songzhi Su

Real-time rendering and animation of humans is a core function in games, movies, and telepresence applications. Existing methods have a number of drawbacks we aim to address with our work. Triangle meshes have difficulty modeling thin…

Visual place recognition has gained significant attention in recent years as a crucial technology in autonomous driving and robotics. Currently, the two main approaches are the perspective view retrieval (P2P) paradigm and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Ze Shi , Hao Shi , Kailun Yang , Zhe Yin , Yining Lin , Kaiwei Wang

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

Vehicle tracking is an integral part of intelligent traffic management systems. Previous implementations of vehicle tracking used Global Positioning System(GPS) based systems that gave location of the vehicle of an individual on their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Lalit Lakshmanan , Yash Vora , Raj Ghate