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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

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…

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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 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

Local motion blur in digital images originates from the relative motion between dynamic objects and static imaging systems during exposure. Existing deblurring methods face significant challenges in addressing this problem due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Wei Shang , Dongwei Ren , Wanying Zhang , Pengfei Zhu , Qinghua Hu , Wangmeng Zuo

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

Computationally removing the motion blur introduced by camera shake or object motion in a captured image remains a challenging task in computational photography. Deblurring methods are often limited by the fixed global exposure time of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-18 Cindy M. Nguyen , Julien N. P. Martel , Gordon Wetzstein

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) has seen significant advances at the frontiers of matching performance and computational superiority over the past few years. However, these evaluations are performed for ground-based mobile platforms and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Mubariz Zaffar , Ahmad Khaliq , Shoaib Ehsan , Michael Milford , Kostas Alexis , Klaus McDonald-Maier

Can knowing where you are assist in perceiving objects in your surroundings, especially under adverse weather and lighting conditions? In this work we investigate whether a prior map can be leveraged to aid in the detection of dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Stephen Hausler , Sourav Garg , Punarjay Chakravarty , Shubham Shrivastava , Ankit Vora , Michael Milford

Intuitively, motion blur may hurt the performance of visual object tracking. However, we lack quantitative evaluation of tracker robustness to different levels of motion blur. Meanwhile, while image deblurring methods can produce visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Qing Guo , Wei Feng , Zhihao Chen , Ruijun Gao , Liang Wan , Song Wang

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 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

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

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 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

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

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

Road segmentation in challenging domains, such as night, snow or rain, is a difficult task. Most current approaches boost performance using fine-tuning, domain adaptation, style transfer, or by referencing previously acquired imagery. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Connor Malone , Sourav Garg , Ming Xu , Thierry Peynot , Michael Milford

Visual place recognition (VPR) is a robot's ability to determine whether a place was visited before using visual data. While conventional hand-crafted methods for VPR fail under extreme environmental appearance changes, those based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

Motion deblurring is one of the fundamental problems of computer vision and has received continuous attention. The variability in blur, both within and across images, imposes limitations on non-blind deblurring techniques that rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Yawen Xiang , Heng Zhou , Chengyang Li , Fangwei Sun , Zhongbo Li , Yongqiang Xie