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A recent approach to the Visual Place Recognition (VPR) problem has been to fuse the place recognition estimates of multiple complementary VPR techniques simultaneously. However, selecting the optimal set of techniques to use in a specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Stephen Hausler , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford

In Visual Place Recognition (VPR) the pose of a query image is estimated by comparing the image to a map of reference images with known reference poses. As is typical for image retrieval problems, a feature extractor maps the query and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Mubariz Zaffar , Liangliang Nan , Julian F. P. Kooij

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

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

Over the past decade, most methods in visual place recognition (VPR) have used neural networks to produce feature representations. These networks typically produce a global representation of a place image using only this image itself and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Feng Lu , Xiangyuan Lan , Lijun Zhang , Dongmei Jiang , Yaowei Wang , Chun Yuan

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a crucial capability for long-term autonomous robots, enabling them to identify previously visited locations using visual information. However, existing methods remain limited in indoor settings due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Huaqi Tao , Bingxi Liu , Calvin Chen , Tingjun Huang , He Li , Jinqiang Cui , Hong Zhang

Visual place recognition (VPR) aiming at predicting the location of an image based solely on its visual features is a fundamental task in robotics and autonomous systems. Domain variation remains one of the main challenges in VPR and is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Shanshan Wan , Lai Kang , Yingmei Wei , Tianrui Shen , Haixuan Wang , Chao Zuo

Visual place recognition is a fundamental capability for the localization of mobile robots. It places image retrieval in the practical context of physical agents operating in a physical world. It is an active field of research and many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Stefan Schubert , Peer Neubert

Visual place recognition (VPR) is usually considered as a specific image retrieval problem. Limited by existing training frameworks, most deep learning-based works cannot extract sufficiently stable global features from RGB images and rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Yanqing Shen , Sanping Zhou , Jingwen Fu , Ruotong Wang , Shitao Chen , Nanning Zheng

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) in indoor environments is beneficial to humans and robots for better localization and navigation. It is challenging due to appearance changes at various frequencies, and difficulties of obtaining ground truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Diwei Sheng , Anbang Yang , John-Ross Rizzo , Chen Feng

Visual place recognition is a critical task in computer vision, especially for localization and navigation systems. Existing methods often rely on contrastive learning: image descriptors are trained to have small distance for similar images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 María Leyva-Vallina , Nicola Strisciuglio , Nicolai Petkov

Place recognition is a crucial component that enables autonomous vehicles to obtain localization results in GPS-denied environments. In recent years, multimodal place recognition methods have gained increasing attention. They overcome the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Zhangshuo Qi , Junyi Ma , Jingyi Xu , Zijie Zhou , Luqi Cheng , Guangming Xiong

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

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) enables coarse localization by comparing query images to a reference database of geo-tagged images. Recent breakthroughs in deep learning architectures and training regimes have led to methods with improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Connor Malone , Somayeh Hussaini , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford

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

Place recognition and loop closure detection are challenging for long-term visual navigation tasks. SeqSLAM is considered to be one of the most successful approaches to achieving long-term localization under varying environmental conditions…

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

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 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

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