Nowadays, the field of mobile robotics has experienced an important evolution and these
robots are more commonly proposed to solve different tasks autonomously. The use of …

This paper surveys the most recent published techniques in the field of Simultaneous
Localization and Mapping (SLAM). In particular it is focused on the existing techniques …

Visual place recognition is a challenging problem due to the vast range of ways in which the
appearance of real-world places can vary. In recent years, improvements in visual sensing …

Feature detection, description and matching are essential components of various computer
vision applications, thus they have received a considerable attention in the last decades …

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 recent advances in mobile computing, the demand for visual localization or landmark
identification on mobile devices is gaining interest. We advance the state of the art in this …

Image-based localization has provided opportunities for efficient facility management.
Combined with augmented reality (AR), automated localization can offer visually assistive …

Topological maps model the environment as a graph, where nodes are distinctive places of
the environment and edges indicate topological relationships between them. They represent …

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 …

Various devices that are used indoors require information regarding the user's position and
orientation. This information enables the devices to offer the user customized and more …