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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) - 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…

Images incorporate a wealth of information from a robot's surroundings. With the widespread availability of compact cameras, visual information has become increasingly popular for addressing the localisation problem, which is then termed as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Mihnea-Alexandru Tomita , Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

Geo-localization from a single image at planet scale (essentially an advanced or extreme version of the kidnapped robot problem) is a fundamental and challenging task in applications such as navigation, autonomous driving and disaster…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Sania Waheed , Na Min An , Michael Milford , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn , Shoaib Ehsan

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

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

LiDAR-based place recognition (LPR) plays a pivotal role in autonomous driving, which assists Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems in reducing accumulated errors and achieving reliable localization. However, existing reviews…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Yongjun Zhang , Pengcheng Shi , Jiayuan Li

Visual place recognition is a challenging task for applications such as autonomous driving navigation and mobile robot localization. Distracting elements presenting in complex scenes often lead to deviations in the perception of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Ruotong Wang , Yanqing Shen , Weiliang Zuo , Sanping Zhou , Nanning Zheng

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

This paper addresses Visual Place Recognition (VPR), which is essential for the safe navigation of mobile robots. The solution we propose employs panoramic images and deep learning models, which are fine-tuned with triplet loss functions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Marcos Alfaro , Juan José Cabrera , María Flores , Óscar Reinoso , Luis Payá

In recent years there has been significant improvement in the capability of Visual Place Recognition (VPR) methods, building on the success of both hand-crafted and learnt visual features, temporal filtering and usage of semantic scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Mubariz Zaffar , Ahmad Khaliq , Shoaib Ehsan , Michael Milford , Klaus McDonald-Maier

Visual-based recognition, e.g., image classification, object detection, etc., is a long-standing challenge in computer vision and robotics communities. Concerning the roboticists, since the knowledge of the environment is a prerequisite for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Antonios Gasteratos , Konstantinos A. Tsintotas , Tobias Fischer , Yiannis Aloimonos , Michael Milford

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

Mobile robots necessitate advanced natural language understanding capabilities to accurately identify locations and perform tasks such as package delivery. However, traditional visual place recognition (VPR) methods rely solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Tianyi Shang , Zhenyu Li , Pengjie Xu , Jinwei Qiao , Gang Chen , Zihan Ruan , Weijun Hu

Human visual scene understanding is so remarkable that we are able to recognize a revisited place when entering it from the opposite direction it was first visited, even in the presence of extreme variations in appearance. This capability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Sourav Garg , Niko Suenderhauf , Michael Milford

Autonomous agents such as cars, robots and drones need to precisely localize themselves in diverse environments, including in GPS-denied indoor environments. One approach for precise localization is visual place recognition (VPR), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Ni Wang , Zihan You , Emre Neftci , Thorben Schoepe

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is an important component in both computer vision and robotics applications, thanks to its ability to determine whether a place has been visited and where specifically. A major challenge in VPR is to handle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Peng Yin , Lingyun Xu , Xueqian Li , Chen Yin , Yingli Li , Rangaprasad Arun Srivatsan , Lu Li , Jianmin Ji , Yuqing He

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

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is vital for robot localization. To date, the most performant VPR approaches are environment- and task-specific: while they exhibit strong performance in structured environments (predominantly urban driving),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Nikhil Keetha , Avneesh Mishra , Jay Karhade , Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula , Sebastian Scherer , Madhava Krishna , Sourav Garg

In the last few years, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (D-CNNs) have shown state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance for Visual Place Recognition (VPR), a pivotal component of long-term intelligent robotic vision (vision-aware localization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Ahmad Khaliq , Shoaib Ehsan , Michael Milford , Klaus McDonald-Maier