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Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a crucial capability for long-term autonomous robots, enabling them to identify previously visited locations using visual information. However, existing methods remain limited in indoor settings due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Huaqi Tao , Bingxi Liu , Calvin Chen , Tingjun Huang , He Li , Jinqiang Cui , Hong Zhang

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) systems often have imperfect performance, affecting the `integrity' of position estimates and subsequent robot navigation decisions. Previously, SVM classifiers have been used to monitor VPR integrity. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Owen Claxton , Connor Malone , Helen Carson , Jason Ford , Gabe Bolton , Iman Shames , Michael Milford

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) enables robots and autonomous vehicles to identify previously visited locations by matching current observations against a database of known places. However, VPR systems face significant challenges when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Emily Miller , Michael Milford , Muhammad Burhan Hafez , SD Ramchurn , Shoaib Ehsan

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

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the task of retrieving database images similar to a query photo by comparing it to a large database of known images. In real-world applications, extreme illumination changes caused by query images taken at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Bingxi Liu , Yujie Fu , Feng Lu , Jinqiang Cui , Yihong Wu , Hong Zhang

A cross-domain visual place recognition (VPR) task is proposed in this work, i.e., matching images of the same architectures depicted in different domains. VPR is commonly treated as an image retrieval task, where a query image from an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Ziqi Wang , Jiahui Li , Seyran Khademi , Jan van Gemert

Recent studies show that vision models pre-trained in generic visual learning tasks with large-scale data can provide useful feature representations for a wide range of visual perception problems. However, few attempts have been made to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Feng Lu , Lijun Zhang , Xiangyuan Lan , Shuting Dong , Yaowei Wang , Chun Yuan

Visual place recognition (VPR) enables autonomous systems to localize themselves within an environment using image information. While Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) currently dominate state-of-the-art VPR performance, their high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Bruno Arcanjo , Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

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

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

In recent years there has been significant improvement in the capability of Visual Place Recognition (VPR) methods, building on the success of both hand-crafted and learnt visual features, temporal filtering and usage of semantic scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Mubariz Zaffar , Ahmad Khaliq , Shoaib Ehsan , Michael Milford , Klaus McDonald-Maier

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

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) in long-term deployment requires reasoning beyond pixel similarity: systems must make transparent, interpretable decisions that remain robust under lighting, weather and seasonal change. We present Text2Graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Saeideh Yousefzadeh , Hamidreza Pourreza

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

Place recognition is an important task within autonomous navigation, involving the re-identification of previously visited locations from an initial traverse. Unlike visual place recognition (VPR), LiDAR place recognition (LPR) is tolerant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Therese Joseph , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford

Utilizing visual place recognition (VPR) technology to ascertain the geographical location of publicly available images is a pressing issue for real-world VPR applications. Although most current VPR methods achieve favorable results under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Gaoshuang Huang , Yang Zhou , Xiaofei Hu , Chenglong Zhang , Luying Zhao , Wenjian Gan , Mingbo Hou

Visual place recognition (VPR) is critical in not only localization and mapping for autonomous driving vehicles, but also in assistive navigation for the visually impaired population. To enable a long-term VPR system on a large scale,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Diwei Sheng , Yuxiang Chai , Xinru Li , Chen Feng , Jianzhe Lin , Claudio Silva , John-Ross Rizzo

Place recognition is one of the most crucial modules for autonomous vehicles to identify places that were previously visited in GPS-invalid environments. Sensor fusion is considered an effective method to overcome the weaknesses of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Zijie Zhou , Jingyi Xu , Guangming Xiong , Junyi Ma

Place recognition, the ability to identify previously visited locations, is critical for both biological navigation and autonomous systems. This review synthesizes findings from robotic systems, animal studies, and human research to explore…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Michael Milford , Tobias Fischer

Mobile robots necessitate advanced natural language understanding capabilities to accurately identify locations and perform tasks such as package delivery. However, traditional visual place recognition (VPR) methods rely solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Tianyi Shang , Zhenyu Li , Pengjie Xu , Jinwei Qiao , Gang Chen , Zihan Ruan , Weijun Hu