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Significant advances have been made recently in Visual Place Recognition (VPR), feature correspondence, and localization due to the proliferation of deep-learning-based methods. However, existing approaches tend to address, partially or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Satyajit Tourani , Dhagash Desai , Udit Singh Parihar , Sourav Garg , Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla , Michael Milford , K. Madhava Krishna

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…

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) requires robust retrieval of geotagged images despite large appearance, viewpoint, and environmental variation. Prior methods focus on descriptor fine-tuning or fixed sampling strategies yet neglect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Shunpeng Chen , Changwei Wang , Rongtao Xu , Xingtian Pei , Yukun Song , Jinzhou Lin , Wenhao Xu , Jingyi Zhang , Li Guo , Shibiao Xu

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the ability to correctly recall a previously visited place using visual information under environmental, viewpoint and appearance changes. An emerging trend in VPR is the use of sequence-based filtering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Mihnea-Alexandru Tomită , Mubariz Zaffar , Michael Milford , 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

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) systems often have imperfect performance, affecting the `integrity' of position estimates and subsequent robot navigation decisions. Previously, SVM classifiers have been used to monitor VPR integrity. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Owen Claxton , Connor Malone , Helen Carson , Jason Ford , Gabe Bolton , Iman Shames , Michael Milford

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) 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 (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

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) in long-term deployment requires reasoning beyond pixel similarity: systems must make transparent, interpretable decisions that remain robust under lighting, weather and seasonal change. We present Text2Graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Saeideh Yousefzadeh , Hamidreza Pourreza

In this work, we propose HE-VPR, a visual place recognition (VPR) framework that incorporates height estimation. Our system decouples height inference from place recognition, allowing both modules to share a frozen DINOv2 backbone. Two…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Mengfan He , Xingyu Shao , Chunyu Li , Chao Chen , Liangzheng Sun , Ziyang Meng , Yuanqing Wu

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) 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

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

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

TAT-VPR is a ternary-quantized transformer that brings dynamic accuracy-efficiency trade-offs to visual SLAM loop-closure. By fusing ternary weights with a learned activation-sparsity gate, the model can control computation by up to 40% at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Oliver Grainge , Michael Milford , Indu Bodala , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn , Shoaib Ehsan

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

The task of Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is to predict the location of a query image from a database of geo-tagged images. Recent studies in VPR have highlighted the significant advantage of employing pre-trained foundation models like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Issar Tzachor , Boaz Lerner , Matan Levy , Michael Green , Tal Berkovitz Shalev , Gavriel Habib , Dvir Samuel , Noam Korngut Zailer , Or Shimshi , Nir Darshan , Rami Ben-Ari

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) aims to retrieve frames from a geotagged database that are located at the same place as the query frame. To improve the robustness of VPR in perceptually aliasing scenarios, sequence-based VPR methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Junqiao Zhao , Fenglin Zhang , Yingfeng Cai , Gengxuan Tian , Wenjie Mu , Chen Ye , Tiantian Feng

In this letter, we propose a pseudo-siamese convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture that enables to solve the task of identifying corresponding patches in very-high-resolution (VHR) optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-23 Lloyd H. Hughes , Michael Schmitt , Lichao Mou , Yuanyuan Wang , Xiao Xiang Zhu