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Place recognition plays a crucial role in navigational assistance, and is also a challenging issue of assistive technology. The place recognition is prone to erroneous localization owing to various changes between database and query images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Ruiqi Cheng , Kaiwei Wang , Jian Bai , Zhijie Xu

In this paper we focus on the challenging problem of place categorization and semantic mapping on a robot without environment-specific training. Motivated by their ongoing success in various visual recognition tasks, we build our system…

Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) is one of the fundamental problems in autonomous mobile robots where a robot needs to reconstruct a previously unseen environment while simultaneously localising itself with respect to the map.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Tin Lai

While substantial progress has been made in the absolute performance of localization and Visual Place Recognition (VPR) techniques, it is becoming increasingly clear from translating these systems into applications that other capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Helen Carson , Jason J. Ford , Michael Milford

$ $Visual place recognition is challenging, especially when only a few place exemplars are given. To mitigate the challenge, we consider place recognition method using omnidirectional cameras and propose a novel Omnidirectional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Hung-Jui Huang , Juan-Ting Lin , Chan-Wei Hu , Kuo-Hao Zeng , Min Sun

An optimal solution to the localization problem is essential for developing autonomous robotic systems. Apart from autonomous vehicles, precision agriculture is one of the elds that can bene t most from these systems. Although LiDAR place…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Judith Vilella-Cantos , Mónica Ballesta , David Valiente , María Flores , Luis Payá

Visual robot self-localization is a fundamental problem in visual robot navigation and has been studied across various problem settings, including monocular and sequential localization. However, many existing studies focus primarily on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Mitsuki Yoshida , Ryogo Yamamoto , Daiki Iwata , Kanji Tanaka

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

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

Visual place recognition is a challenging task in the field of computer vision, and autonomous robotics and vehicles, which aims to identify a location or a place from visual inputs. Contemporary methods in visual place recognition employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Shyam Sundar Kannan , Byung-Cheol Min

Ensuring accurate localization of robots in environments without GPS capability is a challenging task. Visual Place Recognition (VPR) techniques can potentially achieve this goal, but existing RGB-based methods are sensitive to changes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yujia Lin , Nicholas Evans

We consider the problem of navigating a mobile robot towards a target in an unknown environment that is endowed with visual sensors, where neither the robot nor the sensors have access to global positioning information and only use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Jan Blumenkamp , Qingbiao Li , Binyu Wang , Zhe Liu , Amanda Prorok

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 (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

A commercial robot, trained by its manufacturer to recognize a predefined number and type of objects, might be used in many settings, that will in general differ in their illumination conditions, background, type and degree of clutter, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Gabriele Angeletti , Barbara Caputo , Tatiana Tommasi

Accurately recognizing a revisited place is crucial for embodied agents to localize and navigate. This requires visual representations to be distinct, despite strong variations in camera viewpoint and scene appearance. Existing visual place…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Kartik Garg , Sai Shubodh Puligilla , Shishir Kolathaya , Madhava Krishna , Sourav Garg

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) determines a query image's geographic location by matching it against geotagged databases. However, existing methods struggle with perceptual aliasing caused by irrelevant regions and inefficient re-ranking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Shunpeng Chen , Yukun Song , Changwei Wang , Rongtao Xu , Kexue Fu , Longxiang Gao , Li Guo , Ruisheng Wang , Shibiao Xu

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

To have a robot actively supporting a human during a collaborative task, it is crucial that robots are able to identify the current action in order to predict the next one. Common approaches make use of high-level knowledge, such as object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Markus Eich , Sareh Shirazi , Gordon Wyeth

Localizing an object accurately with respect to a robot is a key step for autonomous robotic manipulation. In this work, we propose to tackle this task knowing only 3D models of the robot and object in the particular case where the scene is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Vianney Loing , Renaud Marlet , Mathieu Aubry