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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

A key challenge in translating Visual Place Recognition (VPR) from the lab to long-term deployment is ensuring a priori that a system can meet user-specified performance requirements across different parts of an environment, rather than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Somayeh Hussaini , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) often fails under extreme environmental changes and perceptual aliasing. Furthermore, standard systems cannot perform "blind" localization from verbal descriptions alone, a capability needed for applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ofer Idan , Dan Badur , Yosi Keller , Yoli Shavit

Robust geo-localization in changing environmental conditions is critical for long-term aerial autonomy. While visual place recognition (VPR) models perform well when airborne views match the training domain, adapting them to shifting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Xingyu Shao , Zhiqiang Yan , Liangzheng Sun , Mengfan He , Chao Chen , Jinhui Zhang , Chunyu Li , Ziyang Meng

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

Recent studies show that vision models pre-trained in generic visual learning tasks with large-scale data can provide useful feature representations for a wide range of visual perception problems. However, few attempts have been made to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Feng Lu , Lijun Zhang , Xiangyuan Lan , Shuting Dong , Yaowei Wang , Chun Yuan

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) has been a subject of significant research over the last 15 to 20 years. VPR is a fundamental task for autonomous navigation as it enables self-localization within an environment. Although robots are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Rose Power , Mubariz Zaffar , Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

In this work we propose a novel joint training method for Visual Place Recognition (VPR), which simultaneously learns a global descriptor and a pair classifier for re-ranking. The pair classifier can predict whether a given pair of images…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Stephen Hausler , Peyman Moghadam

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) 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 (VPR) is generally concerned with localizing outdoor images. However, localizing indoor scenes that contain part of an outdoor scene can be of large value for a wide range of applications. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Sarah Ibrahimi , Nanne van Noord , Tim Alpherts , Marcel Worring

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) is a critical task in computer vision, traditionally enhanced by re-ranking retrieval results with image matching. However, recent advancements in VPR methods have significantly improved performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Davide Sferrazza , Gabriele Berton , Gabriele Trivigno , Carlo Masone

We address multi-reference visual place recognition (VPR), where reference sets captured under varying conditions are used to improve localisation performance. While deep learning with large-scale training improves robustness, increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Timur Ismagilov , Shakaiba Majeed , Michael Milford , Tan Viet Tuyen Nguyen , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn , Shoaib Ehsan

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

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

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

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

The limited capacity for fine-grained visual perception presents a critical bottleneck for Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in real-world applications. Addressing this is challenging due to the scarcity of high-quality data and the limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Juntian Zhang , Song Jin , Chuanqi Cheng , Yuhan Liu , Yankai Lin , Xun Zhang , Yufei Zhang , Fei Jiang , Guojun Yin , Wei Lin , Rui Yan

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