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Visual Place Recognition (VPR) has been traditionally formulated as a single-image retrieval task. Using multiple views offers clear advantages, yet this setting remains relatively underexplored and existing methods often struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Tianchen Deng , Xun Chen , Ziming Li , Hongming Shen , Danwei Wang , Javier Civera , Hesheng Wang

Visual place recognition is a key to unlocking spatial navigation for animals, humans and robots. While state-of-the-art approaches are trained in a supervised manner and therefore hardly capture the information needed for generalizing to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Mohamed Adel Musallam , Vincent Gaudillière , Djamila Aouada

Place recognition is one of the most crucial modules for autonomous vehicles to identify places that were previously visited in GPS-invalid environments. Sensor fusion is considered an effective method to overcome the weaknesses of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Zijie Zhou , Jingyi Xu , Guangming Xiong , Junyi Ma

Utilizing visual place recognition (VPR) technology to ascertain the geographical location of publicly available images is a pressing issue for real-world VPR applications. Although most current VPR methods achieve favorable results under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Gaoshuang Huang , Yang Zhou , Xiaofei Hu , Chenglong Zhang , Luying Zhao , Wenjian Gan , Mingbo Hou

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) approaches have typically attempted to match places by identifying visual cues, image regions or landmarks that have high ``utility'' in identifying a specific place. But this concept of utility is not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Nikhil Varma Keetha , Michael Milford , Sourav Garg

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the task of matching current visual imagery from a camera to images stored in a reference map of the environment. While initial VPR systems used simple direct image methods or hand-crafted visual features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Sourav Garg , Michael Milford

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a crucial component of 6-DoF localization, visual SLAM and structure-from-motion pipelines, tasked to generate an initial list of place match hypotheses by matching global place descriptors. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Ahmad Khaliq , Michael Milford , Sourav Garg

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

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

In autonomous driving, robust place recognition is critical for global localization and loop closure detection. While inter-modality fusion of camera and LiDAR data in multimodal place recognition (MPR) has shown promise in overcoming the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jingyi Xu , Zhangshuo Qi , Zhongmiao Yan , Xuyu Gao , Qianyun Jiao , Songpengcheng Xia , Xieyuanli Chen , Ling Pei

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is critical for autonomous navigation, yet state-of-the-art methods lack well-calibrated uncertainty estimation. Standard pipelines cannot reliably signal when a query is ambiguous or a match is likely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Maya Yanko , Yoli Shavit

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) in mobile robotics enables robots to localize themselves by recognizing previously visited locations using visual data. While the reliability of VPR methods has been extensively studied under conditions such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Timur Ismagilov , Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Tan Viet Tuyen Nguyen , SD Ramchurn , Shoaib Ehsan

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) enables robots and autonomous vehicles to identify previously visited locations by matching current observations against a database of known places. However, VPR systems face significant challenges when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Emily Miller , Michael Milford , Muhammad Burhan Hafez , SD Ramchurn , Shoaib Ehsan

Visual place recognition (VPR) is an essential component of many autonomous and augmented/virtual reality systems. It enables the systems to robustly localize themselves in large-scale environments. Existing VPR methods demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Yuhang Ming , Minyang Xu , Xingrui Yang , Weicai Ye , Weihan Wang , Yong Peng , Weichen Dai , Wanzeng Kong

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

Partial multi-view clustering (PVC) presents significant challenges practical research problem for data analysis in real-world applications, especially when some views of the data are partially missing. Existing clustering methods struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 BoHao Chen

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

Image-to-point cloud cross-modal Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a challenging task where the query is an RGB image, and the database samples are LiDAR point clouds. Compared to single-modal VPR, this approach benefits from the widespread…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Jianyi Peng , Fan Lu , Bin Li , Yuan Huang , Sanqing Qu , Guang Chen

Multiview clustering (MVC) aims to reveal the underlying structure of multiview data by categorizing data samples into clusters. Deep learning-based methods exhibit strong feature learning capabilities on large-scale datasets. For most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jie Chen , Hua Mao , Wai Lok Woo , Xi Peng