A curated list of papers on Visual Place Recognition and related fields, inspired by awesome-NeRF. Links to many papers is still missing, I'll add them in the next days. PRs are very much appreciated.
- Place recognition survey: An update on deep learning approaches, Tiago Barros et al., ArXiv 2022 | bibtex
- General Place Recognition Survey: Towards the Real-world Autonomy Age, Peng Yin et al., ArXiv 2022 | bibtex
- A Survey on Deep Visual Place Recognition, Carlo Masone et al., IEEE Access 2021 | bibtex
- Visual place recognition: A survey from deep learning perspective, Xiwu Zhang et al., Pattern Recognition 2021 | bibtex
- Where is your place, Visual Place Recognition?, Sourav Garg et al., IJCAI 2021 | bibtex
- Visual Place Recognition: A Survey, Stephanie Lowry et al., IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2016 | bibtex
Papers are roughly split into categories, and a paper can (rarely) appear in more than one category.
Standard VPR
- EigenPlaces: Training Viewpoint Robust Models for Visual Place Recognition, Gabriele Berton et al., ICCV 2023 | github | bibtex
- AnyLoc: Towards Universal Visual Place Recognition, Nikhil Keetha et al., ArXiv 2023 | github | bibtex
- MixVPR: Feature Mixing for Visual Place Recognition, Ali-bey Amar et al., WACV 2023 | bibtex
- Data-efficient Large Scale Place Recognition with Graded Similarity Supervision, María Leyva-Vallina et al., CVPR 2023 | bibtex
- Rethinking Visual Geo-localization for Large-Scale Applications, Berton Gabriele et al., CVPR 2022 | github | bibtex
- GSV-Cities: Toward appropriate supervised visual place recognition, Ali-bey Amar et al., Neurocomputing 2022 | bibtex
- Learning Semantics for Visual Place Recognition through Multi-Scale Attention, Valerio Paolicelli et al., ICIAP 2022 | github | bibtex
- Attentional Pyramid Pooling of Salient Visual Residuals for Place Recognition, Peng Guohao et al., ICCV 2021 | bibtex
- Vector of Locally and Adaptively Aggregated Descriptors for Image Feature Representation, Jian Zhang et al., PR 2021 | bibtex
- Semantic Reinforced Attention Learning for Visual Place Recognition, Guohao Peng et al., ICRA 2021 | bibtex
- Self-supervising Fine-Grained Region Similarities for Large-Scale Image Localization, Ge Yixiao et al., ECCV 2020 | bibtex
- Stochastic Attraction-Repulsion Embedding for Large Scale Image Localization, Liu Liu et al., ICCV 2019 | bibtex
- Attention-based Pyramid Aggregation Network for Visual Place Recognition, Yingying Zhu et al., ACM MM 2018 | bibtex
- Learned Contextual Feature Reweighting for Image Geo-Localization, Kim Hyo Jin et al., CVPR 2017 | bibtex
- NetVLAD: CNN architecture for weakly supervised place recognition, Relja Arandjelović et al., CVPR 2016 | github | bibtex
- Visual Place Recognition with Repetitive Structures, A. Torii et al., PAMI 2015 | bibtex
- Learning and Calibrating Per-Location Classifiers for Visual Place Recognition, Gronat Petr et al., CVPR 2013 | bibtex
VPR Datasets
- Rethinking Visual Geo-localization for Large-Scale Applications, Berton Gabriele et al., CVPR 2022 | github | bibtex
- AmsterTime: A Visual Place Recognition Benchmark Dataset for Severe Domain Shift, B. Yildiz et al., ICPR 2022 | bibtex
- Are Large-Scale 3D Models Really Necessary for Accurate Visual Localization?, A. Torii et al., PAMI 2021 | bibtex
- Adaptive-Attentive Geolocalization From Few Queries: A Hybrid Approach, Berton Gabriele et al., WACV 2021 | bibtex
- Google Landmarks Dataset v2 – A Large-Scale Benchmark for Instance-Level Recognition and Retrieval, Tobias Weyand et al., CVPR 2020 | bibtex
- Mapillary Street-Level Sequences: A Dataset for Lifelong Place Recognition, Warburg Frederik et al., CVPR 2020 | bibtex
- 24/7 Place Recognition by View Synthesis, A. Torii et al., PAMI 2018 | bibtex
- Benchmarking 6DOF Outdoor Visual Localization in Changing Conditions, T. Sattler et al., cvpr 2018 | bibtex
- 1 Year, 1000km: The Oxford RobotCar Dataset, W. Maddern et al., IJRR 2017 | bibtex
- The SYNTHIA Dataset: A Large Collection of Synthetic Images for Semantic Segmentation of Urban Scenes, G. Ros et al., cvpr 2016 | bibtex
- University of Michigan North Campus long-term vision and lidar dataset, N. Carlevaris-Bianco et al., ijrr 2016 | bibtex
- Image Geo-localization Based on Multiple Nearest Neighbor Feature Matching using Generalized Graphs, Zamir A.R. et al., PAMI 2014 | bibtex
- Vision meets robotics: The KITTI dataset, A Geiger et al., ijrr 2013 | bibtex
- Are we there yet? Challenging SeqSLAM on a 3000 km journey across all four seasons, N. Suenderhauf et al., ICRAW 2013 | bibtex
- Image retrieval for image-based localization revisited, Torsten Sattler et al., cvpr 2012 | bibtex
- City-scale landmark identification on mobile devices, D. M. Chen et al., CVPR 2011 | bibtex
- Avoiding confusing features in place recognition, Knopp J. et al., ECCV 2010 | bibtex
- Highly scalable appearance-only SLAM - FAB-MAP 2.0, M. Cummins et al., RSS 2009 | bibtex
- Mapping a Suburb With a Single Camera Using a Biologically Inspired SLAM System, Michael Milford et al., TRO 2008 | bibtex
Cross-domain VPR
- Adaptive-Attentive Geolocalization From Few Queries: A Hybrid Approach, Berton Gabriele et al., WACV 2021 | bibtex
- Inside Out Visual Place Recognition, Sarah Ibrahimi et al., BMVC 2021 | bibtex
- Night-to-day image translation for retrieval-based localization, Anoosheh Asha et al., ICRA 2019 | bibtex
- Attention-Aware Age-Agnostic Visual Place Recognition, Ziqi Wang et al., ICCVW 2019 | bibtex
- Lazy Data Association For Image Sequences Matching Under Substantial Appearance Changes, Olga Vysotska et al., RAL 2016 | bibtex
Sequence-based VPR
- Learning Sequence Descriptor based on Spatio-Temporal Attention for Visual Place Recognition, Fenglin Zhang et al., ArXiv 2023 | bibtex
- MATC-Net: Learning compact sequence representation for hierarchical loop closure detection, Fuji Fu et al., 2023 | [bibtex]((./citations/Fu_2023_matc_net.txt)
- Learning Sequential Descriptors for Sequence-Based Visual Place Recognition, Riccardo Mereu et al., RAL 2022 | github | bibtex
- SeqNet: Learning Descriptors for Sequence-based Hierarchical Place Recognition, Sourav Garg et al., RAL 2021 | github | bibtex
- Fast and Memory Efficient Graph Optimization via ICM for Visual Place Recognition, Stefan Schubert et al., RSS 2021 | bibtex
- SeqSLAM: Visual route-based navigation for sunny summer days and stormy winter nights, Michael Milford et al., ICRA 2012 | bibtex
Re-ranking
- Are Local Features All You Need for Cross-Domain Visual Place Recognition?, Giovanni Barbarani et al., CVPRW 2023 | github | bibtex
- R2former: Unified retrieval and reranking transformer for place recognition, Sijie Zhu et al., CVPR 2023 | github | bibtex
- TransVPR: Transformer-Based Place Recognition With Multi-Level Attention Aggregation, Wang Ruotong et al., CVPR 2022 | bibtex
- Correlation Verification for Image Retrieval, Lee Seongwon et al., CVPR 2022 | bibtex
- Viewpoint Invariant Dense Matching for Visual Geolocalization, Berton Gabriele et al., ICCV 2021 | bibtex
- Patch-NetVLAD: Multi-Scale Fusion of Locally-Global Descriptors for Place Recognition, Hausler Stephen et al., CVPR 2021 | bibtex
- LoFTR: Detector-Free Local Feature Matching with Transformers, Sun Jiaming et al., CVPR 2021 | bibtex
- Instance-level Image Retrieval using Reranking Transformers, Fuwen Tan et al., ICCV 2021 | bibtex
- DenserNet: Weakly Supervised Visual Localization Using Multi-scale Feature Aggregation, Liu Dongfang et al., AAAI 2021 | bibtex
- Unifying Deep Local and Global Features for Image Search, B. Cao et al., eccv 2020 | bibtex
- SuperGlue: Learning Feature Matching with Graph Neural Networks, Paul-Edouard Sarlin and et al., CVPR 2020 | bibtex
- R2D2: Repeatable and Reliable Detector and Descriptor, Jerome Revaud et al., NIPS 2019 | bibtex
- Multi-Process Fusion: Visual Place Recognition Using Multiple Image Processing Methods, S. Hausler et al., ral 2019 | bibtex
- D2-Net: A Trainable CNN for Joint Detection and Description of Local Features, Dusmanu Mihai et al., CVPR 2019 | bibtex
- Large-Scale Image Retrieval with Attentive Deep Local Features, Noh Hyeonwoo et al., ICCV 2017 | bibtex
Benchmarks
- Are Local Features All You Need for Cross-Domain Visual Place Recognition?, Giovanni Barbarani et al., CVPRW 2023 | github | bibtex
- Deep Visual Geo-localization Benchmark, Berton Gabriele et al., CVPR 2022 | github | bibtex
- VPR-Bench: An Open-Source Visual Place Recognition Evaluation Framework with Quantifiable Viewpoint and Appearance Change, Zaffar Mubariz et al., IJCV 2021 | github | bibtex
- Benchmarking Image Retrieval for Visual Localization, Pion Noe et al., 3DV 2020 | bibtex
- Benchmarking 6DOF Outdoor Visual Localization in Changing Conditions, T. Sattler et al., cvpr 2018 | bibtex
World-wide Geo-Localization
- Interpretable Semantic Photo Geolocation, Theiner Jonas et al., WACV 2022 | bibtex
- Where in the World is this Image? Transformer-based Geo-localization in the Wild, Pramanick Shraman et al., ECCV 2022 | bibtex
- Leveraging EfficientNet and Contrastive Learning for Accurate Global-scale Location Estimation, Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos et al., ICMR 2021 | bibtex
- Geolocation Estimation of Photos Using a Hierarchical Model and Scene Classification, Muller-Budack Eric et al., ECCV 2018 | bibtex
- CPlaNet: Enhancing Image Geolocalization by Combinatorial Partitioning of Maps, Paul Hongsuck Seo et al., ECCV 2018 | bibtex
- Revisiting IM2GPS in the Deep Learning Era, Vo Nam et al., ICCV 2017 | bibtex
- PlaNet - Photo Geolocation with Convolutional Neural Networks, Tobias Weyand et al., ECCV 2016 | bibtex
- IM2GPS: estimating geographic information from a single image, James Hays et al., CVPR 2008 | bibtex
Others
- Divide&Classify: Fine-Grained Classification for City-Wide Visual Geo-localization, Gabriele Trivigno et al., ICCV 2023 | github | bibtex
- Unifying Visual Localization and Scene Recognition for People With Visual Impairment, R. Cheng et al., IEEE Access 2020 | bibtex
- Scalable Place Recognition Under Appearance Change for Autonomous Driving, A. D. Doan et al., ICCV 2019 | bibtex
- Semantic–geometric visual place recognition: a new perspective for reconciling opposing views, S. Garg et al., IJRR 2019 | bibtex
- Benchmarking urban visual geo-localization, Carlo Masone, CVPR 2023
- Urban visual geo-localization: towards large-scale applications, Gabriele Berton, CVPR 2023
- Large-Scale Visual Localization, Giorgos Tolias, Yannis Avrithis, Zuzana Kukelova, Torsten Sattler, Sudipta n: Sinha, Eric Brachmann, ICCV 2021
- General Place Recognition Competition, Yimin Zhang, Luca Carlone, Michael Milford, Junyan Zhu, Ji Zhang, Sebastian Scherer, ICRA 2022
- Tutorial : Large-Scale Visual Place Recognition and Image-Based Localization Part 1, Akihiko Torii, Giorgos Tolias, CVPR 2017
- Tutorial : Large-Scale Visual Place Recognition and Image-Based Localization Part 2, Torsten Sattler, Alex Kendall, CVPR 2017
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