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A key challenge in translating Visual Place Recognition (VPR) from the lab to long-term deployment is ensuring a priori that a system can meet user-specified performance requirements across different parts of an environment, rather than…

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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

Visual place recognition is a challenging task for autonomous driving and robotics, which is usually considered as an image retrieval problem. A commonly used two-stage strategy involves global retrieval followed by re-ranking using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yanqing Shen , Sanping Zhou , Jingwen Fu , Ruotong Wang , Shitao Chen , Nanning Zheng

Large-scale visual place recognition (VPR) is inherently challenging because not all visual cues in the image are beneficial to the task. In order to highlight the task-relevant visual cues in the feature embedding, the existing attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Guohao Peng , Yufeng Yue , Jun Zhang , Zhenyu Wu , Xiaoyu Tang , Danwei Wang

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

In vision-based robot localization and SLAM, Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is essential. This paper addresses the problem of VPR, which involves accurately recognizing the location corresponding to a given query image. A popular approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Soojin Woo , Seong-Woo Kim

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) enables robust localization through image retrieval based on learned descriptors. However, drastic appearance variations of images at the same place caused by viewpoint changes can lead to inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Qiwen Gu , Xufei Wang , Junqiao Zhao , Siyue Tao , Tiantian Feng , Ziqiao Wang , Guang Chen

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) using deep networks has achieved state-of-the-art performance. However, most of them require a training set with ground truth sensor poses to obtain positive and negative samples of each observation's spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Chao Chen , Zegang Cheng , Xinhao Liu , Yiming Li , Li Ding , Ruoyu Wang , Chen Feng

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) 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

Point-based object localization (POL), which pursues high-performance object sensing under low-cost data annotation, has attracted increased attention. However, the point annotation mode inevitably introduces semantic variance due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Xuehui Yu , Pengfei Chen , Kuiran Wang , Xumeng Han , Guorong Li , Zhenjun Han , Qixiang Ye , Jianbin Jiao

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

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

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 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 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

Place recognition plays a crucial role in the fields of robotics and computer vision, finding applications in areas such as autonomous driving, mapping, and localization. Place recognition identifies a place using query sensor data and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Sijie Wang , Qiyu Kang , Rui She , Kai Zhao , Yang Song , Wee Peng Tay

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) refers to the process of using computer vision to recognize the position of the current query image. Due to the significant changes in appearance caused by season, lighting, and time spans between query images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Xuan Yu , Zhenyong Fu

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