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Visual place recognition is a challenging task for applications such as autonomous driving navigation and mobile robot localization. Distracting elements presenting in complex scenes often lead to deviations in the perception of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Ruotong Wang , Yanqing Shen , Weiliang Zuo , Sanping Zhou , Nanning Zheng

LiDAR-based place recognition (LPR) is one of the most crucial components of autonomous vehicles to identify previously visited places in GPS-denied environments. Most existing LPR methods use mundane representations of the input point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Junyi Ma , Guangming Xiong , Jingyi Xu , Xieyuanli Chen

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 (VPR) is a robot's ability to determine whether a place was visited before using visual data. While conventional hand-crafted methods for VPR fail under extreme environmental appearance changes, those based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is fundamental for the global re-localization of robots and devices, enabling them to recognize previously visited locations based on visual inputs. This capability is crucial for maintaining accurate mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Oliver Grainge , Michael Milford , Indu Bodala , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn , Shoaib Ehsan

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

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) aims to estimate the location of an image by treating it as a retrieval problem. VPR uses a database of geo-tagged images and leverages deep neural networks to extract a global representation, called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Mattia Dutto , Gabriele Berton , Debora Caldarola , Eros Fanì , Gabriele Trivigno , Carlo Masone

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

Over the past decade, most methods in visual place recognition (VPR) have used neural networks to produce feature representations. These networks typically produce a global representation of a place image using only this image itself and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Feng Lu , Xiangyuan Lan , Lijun Zhang , Dongmei Jiang , Yaowei Wang , Chun Yuan

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

Visual place recognition (VPR) capabilities enable autonomous robots to navigate complex environments by discovering the environment's topology based on visual input. Most research efforts focus on enhancing the accuracy and robustness of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yiming Li , Zonglin Lyu , Mingxuan Lu , Chao Chen , Michael Milford , Chen Feng

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) in areas with similar scenes such as urban or indoor scenarios is a major challenge. Existing VPR methods using global descriptors have difficulty capturing local specific regions (LSR) in the scene and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Yingfeng Cai , Junqiao Zhao , Jiafeng Cui , Fenglin Zhang , Chen Ye , Tiantian Feng

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) enables robust localization through image retrieval based on learned descriptors. However, drastic appearance variations of images at the same place caused by viewpoint changes can lead to inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Qiwen Gu , Xufei Wang , Junqiao Zhao , Siyue Tao , Tiantian Feng , Ziqiao Wang , Guang Chen

In the last few years, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (D-CNNs) have shown state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance for Visual Place Recognition (VPR), a pivotal component of long-term intelligent robotic vision (vision-aware localization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Ahmad Khaliq , Shoaib Ehsan , Michael Milford , Klaus McDonald-Maier

Visual place recognition (VPR) is usually considered as a specific image retrieval problem. Limited by existing training frameworks, most deep learning-based works cannot extract sufficiently stable global features from RGB images and rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Yanqing Shen , Sanping Zhou , Jingwen Fu , Ruotong Wang , Shitao Chen , Nanning Zheng

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a crucial component of 6-DoF localization, visual SLAM and structure-from-motion pipelines, tasked to generate an initial list of place match hypotheses by matching global place descriptors. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Ahmad Khaliq , Michael Milford , Sourav Garg

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is crucial for robust mobile robot localization, yet it faces significant challenges in maintaining reliable performance under varying environmental conditions and viewpoints. To address this, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Haiyang Jiang , Songhao Piao , Chao Gao , Lei Yu , Liguo Chen

VPR is a fundamental task for autonomous navigation as it enables a robot to localize itself in the workspace when a known location is detected. Although accuracy is an essential requirement for a VPR technique, computational and energy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

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
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