no code implementations • 31 Mar 2024 • Mubariz Zaffar, Liangliang Nan, Julian F. P. Kooij
In Visual Place Recognition (VPR) the pose of a query image is estimated by comparing the image to a map of reference images with known reference poses.
no code implementations • 14 Apr 2023 • Mubariz Zaffar, Liangliang Nan, Julian Francisco Pieter Kooij
Firstly, the reference images for VPR are only available at sparse poses in a map, which enforces an upper bound on the maximum achievable localization accuracy through VPR.
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 • 2 Mar 2021 • Mihnea-Alexandru Tomită, Mubariz Zaffar, Michael Milford, Klaus McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan
This raises a number of interesting research questions: How does performance boost (due to sequential filtering) vary along the entire spectrum of single-frame-based matching methods?
no code implementations • 28 Sep 2020 • Mihnea-Alexandru Tomită, Mubariz Zaffar, Michael Milford, Klaus McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan
In this paper, we present a new handcrafted VPR technique that achieves state-of-the-art place matching performance under challenging conditions.
1 code implementation • 17 May 2020 • Mubariz Zaffar, Sourav Garg, Michael Milford, Julian Kooij, David Flynn, Klaus McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan
Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the process of recognising a previously visited place using visual information, often under varying appearance conditions and viewpoint changes and with computational constraints.
no code implementations • 16 Apr 2019 • Mubariz Zaffar, Ahmad Khaliq, Shoaib Ehsan, Michael Milford, Kostas Alexis, Klaus McDonald-Maier
Visual Place Recognition (VPR) has seen significant advances at the frontiers of matching performance and computational superiority over the past few years.
no code implementations • 21 Mar 2019 • Mubariz Zaffar, Ahmad Khaliq, Shoaib Ehsan, Michael Milford, Klaus McDonald-Maier
In recent years there has been significant improvement in the capability of Visual Place Recognition (VPR) methods, building on the success of both hand-crafted and learnt visual features, temporal filtering and usage of semantic scene information.
no code implementations • 8 Nov 2018 • Mubariz Zaffar, Shoaib Ehsan, Michael Milford, Klaus Mcdonald Maier
This paper presents a cognition-inspired agnostic framework for building a map for Visual Place Recognition.
no code implementations • 4 Jul 2018 • Mubariz Zaffar, Shoaib Ehsan, Rustam Stolkin, Klaus McDonald Maier
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, commonly known as SLAM, has been an active research area in the field of Robotics over the past three decades.