Michael Milford

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∙ 05/09/2023

Visual Place Recognition with Low-Resolution Images

Images incorporate a wealth of information from a robot's surroundings. ...

0 Mihnea-Alexandru Tomită, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/09/2023

An Evaluation and Ranking of Different Voting Schemes for Improved Visual Place Recognition

Visual Place Recognition has recently seen a surge of endeavours utilizi...

0 Maria Waheed, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/09/2023

Patch-DrosoNet: Classifying Image Partitions With Fly-Inspired Models For Lightweight Visual Place Recognition

Visual place recognition (VPR) enables autonomous systems to localize th...

0 Bruno Arcanjo, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/24/2023

A-MuSIC: An Adaptive Ensemble System For Visual Place Recognition In Changing Environments

Visual place recognition (VPR) is an essential component of robot naviga...

0 Bruno Arcanjo, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/19/2023

Deep Declarative Dynamic Time Warping for End-to-End Learning of Alignment Paths

This paper addresses learning end-to-end models for time series data tha...

0 Ming Xu, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/01/2023

A Complementarity-Based Switch-Fuse System for Improved Visual Place Recognition

Recently several fusion and switching based approaches have been present...

0 Maria Waheed, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/26/2023

Data-Efficient Sequence-Based Visual Place Recognition with Highly Compressed JPEG Images

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a fundamental task that allows a robot...

0 Mihnea-Alexandru Tomită, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/04/2022

Residual Skill Policies: Learning an Adaptable Skill-based Action Space for Reinforcement Learning for Robotics

Skill-based reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising strat...

0 Krishan Rana, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/03/2022

Merging Classification Predictions with Sequential Information for Lightweight Visual Place Recognition in Changing Environments

Low-overhead visual place recognition (VPR) is a highly active research ...

0 Bruno Arcanjo, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/17/2022

Data Efficient Visual Place Recognition Using Extremely JPEG-Compressed Images

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the ability of a robotic platform to c...

0 Mihnea-Alexandru Tomită, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/28/2022

Improving Worst Case Visual Localization Coverage via Place-specific Sub-selection in Multi-camera Systems

6-DoF visual localization systems utilize principled approaches rooted i...

0 Stephen Hausler, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/27/2022

Improving Road Segmentation in Challenging Domains Using Similar Place Priors

Road segmentation in challenging domains, such as night, snow or rain, i...

0 Connor Malone, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/10/2022

ReF – Rotation Equivariant Features for Local Feature Matching

Sparse local feature matching is pivotal for many computer vision and ro...

0 Abhishek Peri, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/01/2022

SwitchHit: A Probabilistic, Complementarity-Based Switching System for Improved Visual Place Recognition in Changing Environments

Visual place recognition (VPR), a fundamental task in computer vision an...

0 Maria Waheed, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/24/2022

Highly-Efficient Binary Neural Networks for Visual Place Recognition

VPR is a fundamental task for autonomous navigation as it enables a robo...

0 Bruno Ferrarini, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/18/2022

MultiRes-NetVLAD: Augmenting Place Recognition Training with Low-Resolution Imagery

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a crucial component of 6-DoF localizat...

6 Ahmad Khaliq, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/10/2021

Zero-Shot Uncertainty-Aware Deployment of Simulation Trained Policies on Real-World Robots

While deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents have demonstrated incredib...

0 Krishan Rana, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/23/2021

PointCrack3D: Crack Detection in Unstructured Environments using a 3D-Point-Cloud-Based Deep Neural Network

Surface cracks on buildings, natural walls and underground mine tunnels ...

3 Faris Azhari, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/22/2021

A Benchmark Comparison of Visual Place Recognition Techniques for Resource-Constrained Embedded Platforms

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) has been a subject of significant researc...

0 Rose Power, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/22/2021

An Efficient and Scalable Collection of Fly-inspired Voting Units for Visual Place Recognition in Changing Environments

State-of-the-art visual place recognition performance is currently being...

0 Bruno Arcanjo, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/11/2021

Zero-Shot Domain Adaptation with a Physics Prior

We explore the zero-shot setting for day-night domain adaptation. The tr...

3 Attila Lengyel, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/21/2021

Bayesian Controller Fusion: Leveraging Control Priors in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotics

We present Bayesian Controller Fusion (BCF): a hybrid control strategy t...

68 Krishan Rana, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/06/2021

A Hierarchical Dual Model of Environment- and Place-Specific Utility for Visual Place Recognition

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) approaches have typically attempted to ma...

11 Nikhil Varma Keetha, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/22/2021

SeqNetVLAD vs PointNetVLAD: Image Sequence vs 3D Point Clouds for Day-Night Place Recognition

Place Recognition is a crucial capability for mobile robot localization ...

0 Sourav Garg, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/07/2021

Probabilistic Visual Place Recognition for Hierarchical Localization

Visual localization techniques often comprise a hierarchical localizatio...

0 Ming Xu, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/03/2021

Uncertainty for Identifying Open-Set Errors in Visual Object Detection

Deployed into an open world, object detectors are prone to a type of fal...

0 Dimity Miller, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/15/2021

RoRD: Rotation-Robust Descriptors and Orthographic Views for Local Feature Matching

The use of local detectors and descriptors in typical computer vision pi...

20 Udit Singh Parihar, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/02/2021

Sequential Place Learning: Heuristic-Free High-Performance Long-Term Place Recognition

Sequential matching using hand-crafted heuristics has been standard prac...

12 Marvin Chancán, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/02/2021

Sequence-Based Filtering for Visual Route-Based Navigation: Analysing the Benefits, Trade-offs and Design Choices

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the ability to correctly recall a prev...

0 Mihnea-Alexandru Tomită, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/25/2021

Scene Retrieval for Contextual Visual Mapping

Visual navigation localizes a query place image against a reference data...

4 William H. B. Smith, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/23/2021

SeqNet: Learning Descriptors for Sequence-based Hierarchical Place Recognition

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the task of matching current visual im...

0 Sourav Garg, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/16/2021

Improving Visual Place Recognition Performance by Maximising Complementarity

Visual place recognition (VPR) is the problem of recognising a previousl...

0 Maria Waheed, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/02/2021

Semantics for Robotic Mapping, Perception and Interaction: A Survey

For robots to navigate and interact more richly with the world around th...

0 Sourav Garg, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/17/2020

DeepSeqSLAM: A Trainable CNN+RNN for Joint Global Description and Sequence-based Place Recognition

Sequence-based place recognition methods for all-weather navigation are ...

13 Marvin Chancán, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/01/2020

Binary Neural Networks for Memory-Efficient and Effective Visual Place Recognition in Changing Environments

Visual place recognition (VPR) is a robot's ability to determine whether...

39 Bruno Ferrarini, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/28/2020

ConvSequential-SLAM: A Sequence-based, Training-less Visual Place Recognition Technique for Changing Environments

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the ability to correctly recall a prev...

6 Mihnea-Alexandru Tomită, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/16/2020

Robot Perception enables Complex Navigation Behavior via Self-Supervised Learning

Learning visuomotor control policies in robotic systems is a fundamental...

1 Marvin Chancán, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/10/2020

Delta Descriptors: Change-Based Place Representation for Robust Visual Localization

Visual place recognition is challenging because there are so many factor...

0 Sourav Garg, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/17/2020

VPR-Bench: An Open-Source Visual Place Recognition Evaluation Framework with Quantifiable Viewpoint and Appearance Change

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the process of recognising a previousl...

6 Mubariz Zaffar, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/06/2020

Class Anchor Clustering: a Distance-based Loss for Training Open Set Classifiers

Existing open set classifiers distinguish between known and unknown inpu...

26 Dimity Miller, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/11/2020

Multiplicative Controller Fusion: A Hybrid Navigation Strategy For Deployment in Unknown Environments

Learning-based approaches often outperform hand-coded algorithmic soluti...

11 Krishan Rana, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/02/2020

MVP: Unified Motion and Visual Self-Supervised Learning for Large-Scale Robotic Navigation

Autonomous navigation emerges from both motion and local visual percepti...

26 Marvin Chancán, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/28/2020

Hierarchical Multi-Process Fusion for Visual Place Recognition

Combining multiple complementary techniques together has long been regar...

0 Stephen Hausler, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/23/2020

Fast, Compact and Highly Scalable Visual Place Recognition through Sequence-based Matching of Overloaded Representations

Visual place recognition algorithms trade off three key characteristics:...

9 Sourav Garg, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/15/2019

A Compact Neural Architecture for Visual Place Recognition

State-of-the-art algorithms for visual place recognition can be broadly ...

53 Marvin Chancán, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/10/2019

From Visual Place Recognition to Navigation: Learning Sample-Efficient Control Policies across Diverse Real World Environments

Visual navigation tasks in real world environments often require both se...

10 Marvin Chancán, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/24/2019

Residual Reactive Navigation: Combining Classical and Learned Navigation Strategies For Deployment in Unknown Environments

In this work we focus on improving the efficiency and generalisation of ...

0 Krishan Rana, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/18/2019

CAMAL: Context-Aware Multi-scale Attention framework for Lightweight Visual Place Recognition

In the last few years, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (D-CNNs) have ...

10 Ahmad Khaliq, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/01/2019

Visual Place Recognition for Aerial Robotics: Exploring Accuracy-Computation Trade-off for Local Image Descriptors

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a fundamental yet challenging task for...

6 Bruno Ferrarini, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/27/2019

BTEL: A Binary Tree Encoding Approach for Visual Localization

Visual localization algorithms have achieved significant improvements in...

7 Huu Le, et al. ∙

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