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Visual place recognition (VPR) using deep networks has achieved state-of-the-art performance. However, most of them require a training set with ground truth sensor poses to obtain positive and negative samples of each observation's spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Chao Chen , Zegang Cheng , Xinhao Liu , Yiming Li , Li Ding , Ruoyu Wang , Chen Feng

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) has been traditionally formulated as a single-image retrieval task. Using multiple views offers clear advantages, yet this setting remains relatively underexplored and existing methods often struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Tianchen Deng , Xun Chen , Ziming Li , Hongming Shen , Danwei Wang , Javier Civera , Hesheng Wang

This paper addresses the challenge of 6DoF pose estimation from a single RGB image under severe occlusion or truncation. Many recent works have shown that a two-stage approach, which first detects keypoints and then solves a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Sida Peng , Yuan Liu , Qixing Huang , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou

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

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

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…

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

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 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

This paper aims to classify and locate objects accurately and efficiently, without using bounding box annotations. It is challenging as objects in the wild could appear at arbitrary locations and in different scales. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Chen Sun , Manohar Paluri , Ronan Collobert , Ram Nevatia , Lubomir Bourdev

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) enables coarse localization by comparing query images to a reference database of geo-tagged images. Recent breakthroughs in deep learning architectures and training regimes have led to methods with improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Connor Malone , Somayeh Hussaini , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford

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 this work, we propose HE-VPR, a visual place recognition (VPR) framework that incorporates height estimation. Our system decouples height inference from place recognition, allowing both modules to share a frozen DINOv2 backbone. Two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Mengfan He , Xingyu Shao , Chunyu Li , Chao Chen , Liangzheng Sun , Ziyang Meng , Yuanqing Wu

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) determines a query image's geographic location by matching it against geotagged databases. However, existing methods struggle with perceptual aliasing caused by irrelevant regions and inefficient re-ranking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Shunpeng Chen , Yukun Song , Changwei Wang , Rongtao Xu , Kexue Fu , Longxiang Gao , Li Guo , Ruisheng Wang , Shibiao Xu

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a major challenge for robotics and autonomous systems, with the goal of predicting the location of an image based solely on its visual features. State-of-the-art (SOTA) models extract global descriptors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Shanshan Wan , Yingmei Wei , Lai Kang , Tianrui Shen , Haixuan Wang , Yee-Hong Yang

This paper introduces a novel unsupervised neural network model for visual information encoding which aims to address the problem of large-scale visual localization. Inspired by the structure of the visual cortex, the model (namely HSD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Sylvain Colomer , Nicolas Cuperlier , Guillaume Bresson , Olivier Romain

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) refers to the process of using computer vision to recognize the position of the current query image. Due to the significant changes in appearance caused by season, lighting, and time spans between query images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Xuan Yu , Zhenyong Fu

After the incredible success of deep learning in the computer vision domain, there has been much interest in applying Convolutional Network (ConvNet) features in robotic fields such as visual navigation and SLAM. Unfortunately, there are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Niko Sünderhauf , Feras Dayoub , Sareh Shirazi , Ben Upcroft , Michael Milford