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We propose a decentralised view-overlap recognition framework that operates across freely moving cameras without the need of a reference 3D map. Each camera independently extracts, aggregates into a hierarchical structure, and shares…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Alessio Xompero , Andrea Cavallaro

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is aimed at predicting the location of a query image by referencing a database of geotagged images. For VPR task, often fewer discriminative local regions in an image produce important effects while mundane…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Changwei Wang , Shunpeng Chen , Yukun Song , Rongtao Xu , Zherui Zhang , Jiguang Zhang , Haoran Yang , Yu Zhang , Kexue Fu , Shide Du , Zhiwei Xu , Longxiang Gao , Li Guo , Shibiao Xu

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

We propose Co-op, a novel method for accurately and robustly estimating the 6DoF pose of objects unseen during training from a single RGB image. Our method requires only the CAD model of the target object and can precisely estimate its pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Sungphill Moon , Hyeontae Son , Dongcheol Hur , Sangwook Kim

Place recognition is one of the most fundamental topics in computer vision and robotics communities, where the task is to accurately and efficiently recognize the location of a given query image. Despite years of wisdom accumulated in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Zhiqiang Zeng , Jian Zhang , Xiaodong Wang , Yuming Chen , Chaoyang Zhu

Visual localization is the problem of estimating a camera within a scene and a key component in computer vision applications such as self-driving cars and Mixed Reality. State-of-the-art approaches for accurate visual localization use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Qunjie Zhou , Torsten Sattler , Marc Pollefeys , Laura Leal-Taixe

Understanding 3D scenes semantically and spatially is crucial for the safe navigation of robots and autonomous vehicles, aiding obstacle avoidance and accurate trajectory planning. Camera-based 3D semantic occupancy prediction, which infers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Junsu Kim , Junhee Lee , Ukcheol Shin , Jean Oh , Kyungdon Joo

Visual localization and mapping is the key technology underlying the majority of mixed reality and robotics systems. Most state-of-the-art approaches rely on local features to establish correspondences between images. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Mihai Dusmanu , Ondrej Miksik , Johannes L. Schönberger , Marc Pollefeys

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 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

Place recognition is a challenging but crucial task in robotics. Current description-based methods may be limited by representation capabilities, while pairwise similarity-based methods require exhaustive searches, which is time-consuming.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Chencan Fu , Lin Li , Jianbiao Mei , Yukai Ma , Linpeng Peng , Xiangrui Zhao , Yong Liu

Visual place recognition is a challenging task in the field of computer vision, and autonomous robotics and vehicles, which aims to identify a location or a place from visual inputs. Contemporary methods in visual place recognition employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Shyam Sundar Kannan , Byung-Cheol Min

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

Estimating relative camera poses from consecutive frames is a fundamental problem in visual odometry (VO) and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), where classic methods consisting of hand-crafted features and sampling-based outlier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 You-Yi Jau , Rui Zhu , Hao Su , Manmohan Chandraker

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is often characterized as being able to recognize the same place despite significant changes in appearance and viewpoint. VPR is a key component of Spatial Artificial Intelligence, enabling robotic platforms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Sourav Garg , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford

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

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 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

Visual Place Recognition is a challenging task for robotics and autonomous systems, which must deal with the twin problems of appearance and viewpoint change in an always changing world. This paper introduces Patch-NetVLAD, which provides a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Stephen Hausler , Sourav Garg , Ming Xu , Michael Milford , Tobias Fischer

Object proposals for detecting moving or static video objects need to address issues such as speed, memory complexity and temporal consistency. We propose an efficient Video Object Proposal (VOP) generation method and show its efficacy in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Subarna Tripathi , Serge Belongie , Youngbae Hwang , Truong Nguyen