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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

Visual place recognition (VPR) plays a crucial role in robotic localization and navigation. The key challenge lies in constructing feature representations that are robust to environmental changes. Existing methods typically adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Weiwei Wang , Meijia Wang , Haoyi Wang , Wenqiang Guo , Jiapan Guo , Changming Sun , Lingkun Ma , Weichuan Zhang

Visual place recognition (VPR) aims to determine the general geographical location of a query image by retrieving visually similar images from a large geo-tagged database. To obtain a global representation for each place image, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Tong Jin , Feng Lu , Shuyu Hu , Chun Yuan , Yunpeng Liu

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…

We tackle the problem of large scale visual place recognition, where the task is to quickly and accurately recognize the location of a given query photograph. We present the following three principal contributions. First, we develop a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Relja Arandjelović , Petr Gronat , Akihiko Torii , Tomas Pajdla , Josef Sivic

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

Mesh-based scene representation offers a promising direction for simplifying large-scale hierarchical visual localization pipelines, combining a visual place recognition step based on global features (retrieval) and a visual localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Gabriele Berton , Lorenz Junglas , Riccardo Zaccone , Thomas Pollok , Barbara Caputo , Carlo Masone

Visual place recognition (VPR) is an important component technology for camera-based mapping and navigation applications. This is a challenging problem because images of the same place may appear quite different for reasons including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Nick Trinh , Damian Lyons

Place recognition is one of the most challenging problems in computer vision, and has become a key part in mobile robotics and autonomous driving applications for performing loop closure in visual SLAM systems. Moreover, the difficulty of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Ruben Gomez-Ojeda , Manuel Lopez-Antequera , Nicolai Petkov , Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez

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 the task of recognizing a place depicted in an image based on its pure visual appearance without metadata. In visual place recognition, the challenges lie upon not only the changes in lighting conditions, camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Duc Canh Le , Chan Hyun Youn

Traditional visual place recognition (VPR), usually using standard cameras, is easy to fail due to glare or high-speed motion. By contrast, event cameras have the advantages of low latency, high temporal resolution, and high dynamic range,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Kuanxu Hou , Delei Kong , Junjie Jiang , Hao Zhuang , Xinjie Huang , Zheng Fang

Robust visual place recognition (VPR) requires scene representations that are invariant to various environmental challenges such as seasonal changes and variations due to ambient lighting conditions during day and night. Moreover, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Unnat Jain , Vinay P. Namboodiri , Gaurav Pandey

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) approaches have typically attempted to match places by identifying visual cues, image regions or landmarks that have high ``utility'' in identifying a specific place. But this concept of utility is not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Nikhil Varma Keetha , Michael Milford , Sourav Garg

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the ability to correctly recall a previously visited place under changing viewpoints and appearances. A large number of handcrafted and deep-learning-based VPR techniques exist, where the former suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Mihnea-Alexandru Tomită , Mubariz Zaffar , Michael Milford , Klaus McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

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

Localization is an essential capability for mobile robots. A rapidly growing field of research in this area is Visual Place Recognition (VPR), which is the ability to recognize previously seen places in the world based solely on images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Stefan Schubert , Peer Neubert , Sourav Garg , Michael Milford , Tobias Fischer

This paper adapts a general dataset representation technique to produce robust Visual Place Recognition (VPR) descriptors, crucial to enable real-world mobile robot localisation. Two parallel lines of work on VPR have shown, on one side,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Benjamin Ramtoula , Daniele De Martini , Matthew Gadd , Paul Newman

Deep networks have been successfully applied to visual tracking by learning a generic representation offline from numerous training images. However the offline training is time-consuming and the learned generic representation may be less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-25 Kaihua Zhang , Qingshan Liu , Yi Wu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Visual place recognition (VPR) is crucial for robots to identify previously visited locations, playing an important role in autonomous navigation in both indoor and outdoor environments. However, most existing VPR datasets are limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yehui Shen , Lei Zhang , Qingqiu Li , Xiongwei Zhao , Yue Wang , Huimin Lu , Xieyuanli Chen