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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

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

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 a core component in computer vision, typically formulated as an image retrieval task for localization, mapping, and navigation. In this work, we instead study VPR as an image pair retrieval front-end for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dennis Haitz , Athradi Shritish Shetty , Michael Weinmann , Markus Ulrich

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) 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

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 is an important problem towards global localization in many robotics tasks. One of the biggest challenges is that it may suffer from illumination or appearance changes in surrounding environments. Event cameras are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Xiang Ji , Jiaxin Wei , Yifu Wang , Huiliang Shang , Laurent Kneip

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

Traditional visual place recognition (VPR) methods generally use frame-based cameras, which is easy to fail due to dramatic illumination changes or fast motions. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end visual place recognition network for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Delei Kong , Zheng Fang , Haojia Li , Kuanxu Hou , Sonya Coleman , Dermot Kerr

Visual Place Recognition is a task that aims to predict the coordinates of an image (called query) based solely on visual clues. Most commonly, a retrieval approach is adopted, where the query is matched to the most similar images from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Giovanni Barbarani , Mohamad Mostafa , Hajali Bayramov , Gabriele Trivigno , Gabriele Berton , Carlo Masone , Barbara Caputo

Ensuring accurate localization of robots in environments without GPS capability is a challenging task. Visual Place Recognition (VPR) techniques can potentially achieve this goal, but existing RGB-based methods are sensitive to changes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yujia Lin , Nicholas Evans

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is an image-based localization method that estimates the camera location of a query image by retrieving the most similar reference image from a map of geo-tagged reference images. In this work, we look into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Mubariz Zaffar , Liangliang Nan , Julian Francisco Pieter Kooij

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a fundamental yet challenging task for small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The core reasons are the extreme viewpoint changes, and limited computational power onboard a UAV which restricts the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Bruno Ferrarini , Maria Waheed , Sania Waheed , Shoaib Ehsan , Michael Milford , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) aims to retrieve frames from a geotagged database that are located at the same place as the query frame. To improve the robustness of VPR in perceptually aliasing scenarios, sequence-based VPR methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Junqiao Zhao , Fenglin Zhang , Yingfeng Cai , Gengxuan Tian , Wenjie Mu , Chen Ye , Tiantian Feng

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) in long-term deployment requires reasoning beyond pixel similarity: systems must make transparent, interpretable decisions that remain robust under lighting, weather and seasonal change. We present Text2Graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Saeideh Yousefzadeh , Hamidreza Pourreza

Aerial imagery and its direct application to visual localization is an essential problem for many Robotics and Computer Vision tasks. While Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are the standard default solution for solving the aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Ivan Moskalenko , Anastasiia Kornilova , Gonzalo Ferrer

Visual place recognition (VPR) enables autonomous robots to identify previously visited locations, which contributes to tasks like simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). VPR faces challenges such as accurate image neighbor retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Taiyi Pan , Junyang He , Chao Chen , Yiming Li , Chen Feng

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) 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
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