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Visual place recognition (VPR) remains challenging due to significant viewpoint changes and appearance variations. Mainstream works tackle these challenges by developing various feature aggregation methods to transform deep features into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Teng Wang , Lingquan Meng , Lei Cheng , Changyin Sun

Large-scale visual place recognition (VPR) is inherently challenging because not all visual cues in the image are beneficial to the task. In order to highlight the task-relevant visual cues in the feature embedding, the existing attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Guohao Peng , Yufeng Yue , Jun Zhang , Zhenyu Wu , Xiaoyu Tang , Danwei Wang

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a core component in computer vision, typically formulated as an image retrieval task for localization, mapping, and navigation. In this work, we instead study VPR as an image pair retrieval front-end for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dennis Haitz , Athradi Shritish Shetty , Michael Weinmann , Markus Ulrich

Visual place recognition (VPR) is a challenging task with the unbalance between enormous computational cost and high recognition performance. Thanks to the practical feature extraction ability of the lightweight convolution neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Qingyuan Gong , Yu Liu , Liqiang Zhang , Renhe Liu

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

In this paper we address the task of visual place recognition (VPR), where the goal is to retrieve the correct GPS coordinates of a given query image against a huge geotagged gallery. While recent works have shown that building descriptors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Valerio Paolicelli , Antonio Tavera , Carlo Masone , Gabriele Berton , Barbara Caputo

Recently, the methods based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained popularity in the field of visual place recognition (VPR). In particular, the features from the middle layers of CNNs are more robust to drastic appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Feng Lu , Baifan Chen , Xiang-Dong Zhou , Dezhen Song

Low-overhead visual place recognition (VPR) is a highly active research topic. Mobile robotics applications often operate under low-end hardware, and even more hardware capable systems can still benefit from freeing up onboard system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Bruno Arcanjo , Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) has advanced significantly with high-capacity foundation models like DINOv2, achieving remarkable performance. Nonetheless, their substantial computational cost makes deployment on resource-constrained devices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jaeyoon Kim , Yoonki Cho , Sung-Eui Yoon

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a crucial component of many visual localization pipelines for embodied agents. VPR is often formulated as an image retrieval task aimed at jointly learning local features and an aggregation method. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Ahmad Khaliq , Ming Xu , Stephen Hausler , Michael Milford , Sourav Garg

One recent promising approach to the Visual Place Recognition (VPR) problem has been to fuse the place recognition estimates of multiple complementary VPR techniques using methods such as SRAL and multi-process fusion. These approaches come…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Connor Malone , Stephen Hausler , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a critical task for performing global re-localization in visual perception systems. It requires the ability to accurately recognize a previously visited location under variations such as illumination,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Oliver Grainge , Michael Milford , Indu Bodala , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn , Shoaib Ehsan

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

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

In this paper, we propose a real-time and accurate automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) approach. Our study illustrates the outstanding design of ALPR with four insights: (1) the resampling-based cascaded framework is beneficial to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Yi Wang , Zhen-Peng Bian , Yunhao Zhou , Lap-Pui Chau

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have recently been shown to excel at performing visual place recognition under changing appearance and viewpoint. Previously, place recognition has been improved by intelligently selecting relevant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Stephen Hausler , Adam Jacobson , Michael Milford

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a fundamental task that allows a robotic platform to successfully localise itself in the environment. For decentralised VPR applications where the visual data has to be transmitted between several agents,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Mihnea-Alexandru Tomita , Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the ability of a robotic platform to correctly interpret visual stimuli from its on-board cameras in order to determine whether it is currently located in a previously visited place, despite different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Mihnea-Alexandru Tomita , Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

Visual place recognition is a challenging task for autonomous driving and robotics, which is usually considered as an image retrieval problem. A commonly used two-stage strategy involves global retrieval followed by re-ranking using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yanqing Shen , Sanping Zhou , Jingwen Fu , Ruotong Wang , Shitao Chen , Nanning Zheng

In autonomous driving, robust place recognition is critical for global localization and loop closure detection. While inter-modality fusion of camera and LiDAR data in multimodal place recognition (MPR) has shown promise in overcoming the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jingyi Xu , Zhangshuo Qi , Zhongmiao Yan , Xuyu Gao , Qianyun Jiao , Songpengcheng Xia , Xieyuanli Chen , Ling Pei