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Visual place recognition (VPR) is an essential component of robot navigation and localization systems that allows them to identify a place using only image data. VPR is challenging due to the significant changes in a place's appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Bruno Arcanjo , Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

Visual place recognition (VPR) is the problem of recognising a previously visited location using visual information. Many attempts to improve the performance of VPR methods have been made in the literature. One approach that has received…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Maria Waheed , Michael Milford , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

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 the ability to correctly recall a previously visited place using visual information under environmental, viewpoint and appearance changes. An emerging trend in VPR is the use of sequence-based filtering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Mihnea-Alexandru Tomită , Mubariz Zaffar , Michael Milford , Klaus McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

In visual place recognition (VPR), filtering and sequence-based matching approaches can improve performance by integrating temporal information across image sequences, especially in challenging conditions. While these methods are commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Somayeh Hussaini , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford

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

Mobile robots and autonomous vehicles are often required to function in environments where critical position estimates from sensors such as GPS become uncertain or unreliable. Single image visual place recognition (VPR) provides an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Connor Malone , Ankit Vora , Thierry Peynot , Michael Milford

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), a fundamental task in computer vision and robotics, is the problem of identifying a place mainly based on visual information. Viewpoint and appearance changes, such as due to weather and seasonal variations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Maria Waheed , Michael Milford , Klaus McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

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

A recent approach to the Visual Place Recognition (VPR) problem has been to fuse the place recognition estimates of multiple complementary VPR techniques simultaneously. However, selecting the optimal set of techniques to use in a specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Stephen Hausler , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford

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

A key challenge in visual place recognition (VPR) is recognizing places despite drastic visual appearance changes due to factors such as time of day, season, weather or lighting conditions. Numerous approaches based on deep-learnt image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Timothy L. Molloy , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford , Girish N. Nair

Place recognition and loop closure detection are challenging for long-term visual navigation tasks. SeqSLAM is considered to be one of the most successful approaches to achieving long-term localization under varying environmental conditions…

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

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

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

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

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

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) enables robots and autonomous vehicles to identify previously visited locations by matching current observations against a database of known places. However, VPR systems face significant challenges when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Emily Miller , Michael Milford , Muhammad Burhan Hafez , SD Ramchurn , Shoaib Ehsan
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