In the early days, content-based image retrieval (CBIR) was studied with global features.
Since 2003, image retrieval based on local descriptors (de facto SIFT) has been extensively …

LiDAR has gained popularity in autonomous driving due to advantages like long
measurement distance, rich three-dimensional information, and stability in harsh …

Abstract Visual Place Recognition (VPR) estimates the location of query images by matching
them with images in a reference database. Conventional methods generally adopt …

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 …

Visual Geo-localization (VG) is the task of estimating the position where a given photo was
taken by comparing it with a large database of images of known locations. To investigate …

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 …

Visual place recognition has attracted widespread research interest in multiple fields such
as computer vision and robotics. Recently, researchers have employed advanced deep …

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 …

Visual place recognition is a challenging task for applications such as autonomous driving
navigation and mobile robot localization. Distracting elements presenting in complex scenes …

Visual localization enables autonomous vehicles to navigate in their surroundings and
augmented reality applications to link virtual to real worlds. Practical visual localization …