Vpr-bench: An open-source visual place recognition evaluation framework with quantifiable viewpoint and appearance change

M Zaffar, S Garg, M Milford, J Kooij, D Flynn… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
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 …

Levelling the playing field: A comprehensive comparison of visual place recognition approaches under changing conditions

M Zaffar, A Khaliq, S Ehsan, M Milford… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
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 …

A survey on deep visual place recognition

C Masone, B Caputo - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years visual place recognition (VPR), ie, the problem of recognizing the location of
images, has received considerable attention from multiple research communities, spanning …

AnyLoc: Towards Universal Visual Place Recognition

N Keetha, A Mishra, J Karhade… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is vital for robot localization. To date, the most performant
VPR approaches are environment-and task-specific: while they exhibit strong performance …

Mixvpr: Feature mixing for visual place recognition

A Ali-Bey, B Chaib-Draa… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract 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 …

Patch-netvlad: Multi-scale fusion of locally-global descriptors for place recognition

S Hausler, S Garg, M Xu, M Milford… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract Visual Place Recognition is a challenging task for robotics and autonomous
systems, which must deal with the twin problems of appearance and viewpoint change in an …

Hybrid CNN-transformer features for visual place recognition

Y Wang, Y Qiu, P Cheng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual place recognition is a challenging problem in robotics and autonomous systems
because the scene undergoes appearance and viewpoint changes in a changing world …

Are local features all you need for cross-domain visual place recognition?

G Barbarani, M Mostafa, H Bayramov… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract Visual Place Recognition is a task that aims to predict the coordinates of an image
(called query) based solely on visual clues. Most commonly, a retrieval approach is adopted …

Optimal transport aggregation for visual place recognition

S Izquierdo, J Civera - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract The task of Visual Place Recognition (VPR) aims to match a query image against
references from an extensive database of images from different places relying solely on …

Cohog: A light-weight, compute-efficient, and training-free visual place recognition technique for changing environments

M Zaffar, S Ehsan, M Milford… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a novel, compute-efficient and training-free approach based on
Histogram-of-OrientedGradients (HOG) descriptor for achieving state-of-the-art performance …