no code implementations • 16 Jan 2024 • Bruno Arcanjo, Bruno Ferrarini, Michael Milford, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan
Visual place recognition (VPR) is an essential component of robot navigation and localization systems that allows them to identify a place using only image data.
no code implementations • 20 Dec 2023 • Bruno Arcanjo, Bruno Ferrarini, Maria Fasli, Michael Milford, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan
Visual place recognition (VPR) enables autonomous systems to localize themselves within an environment using image information.
no code implementations • 9 May 2023 • Bruno Arcanjo, Bruno Ferrarini, Michael Milford, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan
Visual place recognition (VPR) enables autonomous systems to localize themselves within an environment using image information.
no code implementations • 9 May 2023 • Mihnea-Alexandru Tomita, Bruno Ferrarini, Michael Milford, Klaus McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan
Images incorporate a wealth of information from a robot's surroundings.
no code implementations • 24 Mar 2023 • Bruno Arcanjo, Bruno Ferrarini, Michael Milford, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan
Visual place recognition (VPR) is an essential component of robot navigation and localization systems that allows them to identify a place using only image data.
no code implementations • 26 Feb 2023 • Mihnea-Alexandru Tomita, Bruno Ferrarini, Michael Milford, Klaus McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan
The sequence length that enables 100% place matching performance is reported and an analysis of the amount of data required for each VPR technique to perform the transfer on the entire spectrum of JPEG compression is provided.
no code implementations • 3 Oct 2022 • Bruno Arcanjo, Bruno Ferrarini, Michael Milford, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan
Low-overhead visual place recognition (VPR) is a highly active research topic.
no code implementations • 17 Sep 2022 • Mihnea-Alexandru Tomita, Bruno Ferrarini, Michael Milford, Klaus McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan
Moreover, this paper demonstrates how fine-tuning a CNN can be utilised as an optimisation method for JPEG compressed data to perform more consistently with the image transformations detected in extremely JPEG compressed images.
no code implementations • 24 Feb 2022 • Bruno Ferrarini, Michael Milford, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan
In a typical BNN, the first convolution is not completely binarized for the sake of accuracy.
no code implementations • 22 Sep 2021 • Rose Power, Mubariz Zaffar, Bruno Ferrarini, Michael Milford, Klaus McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan
(4) How does the performance of a high-end platform relate to an on-board low-end embedded platform for VPR?
no code implementations • 22 Sep 2021 • Bruno Arcanjo, Bruno Ferrarini, Michael Milford, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan
In this work, our goal is to provide an algorithm of extreme compactness and efficiency while achieving state-of-the-art robustness to appearance changes and small point-of-view variations.
1 code implementation • 1 Oct 2020 • Bruno Ferrarini, Michael Milford, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to propose binary neural networks for solving the visual place recognition problem effectively under changing conditions and with significantly reduced resource requirements.
no code implementations • 1 Aug 2019 • Bruno Ferrarini, Maria Waheed, Sania Waheed, Shoaib Ehsan, Michael Milford, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier
Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a fundamental yet challenging task for small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV).
no code implementations • 9 Apr 2019 • Bruno Ferrarini, Shoaib Ehsan, Adrien Bartoli, Aleš Leonardis, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier
This paper aims to fill this gap and proposes two experimental scenarios to assess the tolerance to imbalanced training data and to determine the generalization performance of a model with unfamiliar affine transformations of the images.
no code implementations • 24 Sep 2017 • Bruno Ferrarini, Shoaib Ehsan, Ales Leonardis, Naveed Ur Rehman, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier
Selecting the most suitable local invariant feature detector for a particular application has rendered the task of evaluating feature detectors a critical issue in vision research.
no code implementations • 19 May 2016 • Bruno Ferrarini, Shoaib Ehsan, Naveed Ur Rehman, Ales Leonardis, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier
The efficiency and the good accuracy in determining the optimal feature detector for any operating condition, make the proposed tool suitable to be utilized in real visual applications.
no code implementations • 17 Oct 2015 • Bruno Ferrarini, Shoaib Ehsan, Naveed Ur Rehman, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier
Selecting the most suitable local invariant feature detector for a particular application has rendered the task of evaluating feature detectors a critical issue in vision research.
no code implementations • 17 Oct 2015 • Shoaib Ehsan, Adrian F. Clark, Bruno Ferrarini, Naveed Ur Rehman, Klaus D. McDonald-Maier
Since local feature detection has been one of the most active research areas in computer vision, a large number of detectors have been proposed.