In recent years a vast amount of visual content has been generated and shared from many
fields, such as social media platforms, medical imaging, and robotics. This abundance of …

With the development of Internet technology and the popularity of digital devices, Content-
Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) has been quickly developed and applied in various fields …

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 …

Image retrieval is the problem of searching an image database for items that are similar to a
query image. To address this task, two main types of image representations have been …

While image retrieval and instance recognition techniques are progressing rapidly, there is a
need for challenging datasets to accurately measure their performance--while posing novel …

Where am I? This is one of the most critical questions that any intelligent system should
answer to decide whether it navigates to a previously visited area. This problem has long …

Image Retrieval is a fundamental task of obtaining images similar to the query one from a
database. A common image retrieval practice is to firstly retrieve candidate images via …

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

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 …

Geometric verification is considered a de facto solution for the re-ranking task in image
retrieval. In this study, we propose a novel image retrieval re-ranking network named …