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Visual Place Recognition is a task that aims to predict the place of an image (called query) based solely on its visual features. This is typically done through image retrieval, where the query is matched to the most similar images from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Gabriele Berton , Gabriele Trivigno , Barbara Caputo , Carlo Masone

Visual place recognition (VPR) is a fundamental task of computer vision for visual localization. Existing methods are trained using image pairs that either depict the same place or not. Such a binary indication does not consider continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Maria Leyva-Vallina , Nicola Strisciuglio , Nicolai Petkov

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

Visual place recognition is a fundamental capability for the localization of mobile robots. It places image retrieval in the practical context of physical agents operating in a physical world. It is an active field of research and many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Stefan Schubert , Peer Neubert

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

Visual localization, i.e., camera pose estimation in a known scene, is a core component of technologies such as autonomous driving and augmented reality. State-of-the-art localization approaches often rely on image retrieval techniques for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Noé Pion , Martin Humenberger , Gabriela Csurka , Yohann Cabon , Torsten Sattler

Visual place recognition (VPR) - the act of recognizing a familiar visual place - becomes difficult when there is extreme environmental appearance change or viewpoint change. Particularly challenging is the scenario where both phenomena…

Can knowing where you are assist in perceiving objects in your surroundings, especially under adverse weather and lighting conditions? In this work we investigate whether a prior map can be leveraged to aid in the detection of dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Stephen Hausler , Sourav Garg , Punarjay Chakravarty , Shubham Shrivastava , Ankit Vora , Michael Milford

Outdoor visual localization is a crucial component to many computer vision systems. We propose an approach to localization from images that is designed to explicitly handle the strong variations in appearance happening between daytime and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Hugo Germain , Guillaume Bourmaud , Vincent Lepetit

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is an image-based localization method that estimates the camera location of a query image by retrieving the most similar reference image from a map of geo-tagged reference images. In this work, we look into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Mubariz Zaffar , Liangliang Nan , Julian Francisco Pieter Kooij

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) is a scene-oriented image retrieval problem in computer vision in which re-ranking based on local features is commonly employed to improve performance. In robotics, VPR is also referred to as Loop Closure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Bingxi Liu , Hao Chen , Shiyi Guo , Yihong Wu , Jinqiang Cui , Hong Zhang

Road segmentation in challenging domains, such as night, snow or rain, is a difficult task. Most current approaches boost performance using fine-tuning, domain adaptation, style transfer, or by referencing previously acquired imagery. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Connor Malone , Sourav Garg , Ming Xu , Thierry Peynot , Michael Milford

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

Given a query image, Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the task of retrieving an image of the same place from a reference database with robustness to viewpoint and appearance changes. Recent works show that some VPR benchmarks are solved by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Mubariz Zaffar , Liangliang Nan , Sebastian Scherer , Julian F. P. Kooij

Visual re-localization means using a single image as input to estimate the camera's location and orientation relative to a pre-recorded environment. The highest-scoring methods are "structure based," and need the query camera's intrinsics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Mehmet Ozgur Turkoglu , Eric Brachmann , Konrad Schindler , Gabriel Brostow , Aron Monszpart

We address the problem of visual place recognition with perceptual changes. The fundamental problem of visual place recognition is generating robust image representations which are not only insensitive to environmental changes but also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Zhe Xin , Yinghao Cai , Tao Lu , Xiaoxia Xing , Shaojun Cai , Jixiang Zhang , Yiping Yang , Yanqing Wang

Visual localization is the problem of estimating a camera within a scene and a key component in computer vision applications such as self-driving cars and Mixed Reality. State-of-the-art approaches for accurate visual localization use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Qunjie Zhou , Torsten Sattler , Marc Pollefeys , Laura Leal-Taixe

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

Visual place recognition is challenging because there are so many factors that can cause the appearance of a place to change, from day-night cycles to seasonal change to atmospheric conditions. In recent years a large range of approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Sourav Garg , Ben Harwood , Gaurangi Anand , Michael Milford