CricaVPR: Cross-image Correlation-aware Representation Learning for Visual Place Recognition

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Autores principales: Lu, Feng, Lan, Xiangyuan, Zhang, Lijun, Jiang, Dongmei, Wang, Yaowei, Yuan, Chun
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Publicado: 2024
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author Lu, Feng
Lan, Xiangyuan
Zhang, Lijun
Jiang, Dongmei
Wang, Yaowei
Yuan, Chun
author_facet Lu, Feng
Lan, Xiangyuan
Zhang, Lijun
Jiang, Dongmei
Wang, Yaowei
Yuan, Chun
contents Over the past decade, most methods in visual place recognition (VPR) have used neural networks to produce feature representations. These networks typically produce a global representation of a place image using only this image itself and neglect the cross-image variations (e.g. viewpoint and illumination), which limits their robustness in challenging scenes. In this paper, we propose a robust global representation method with cross-image correlation awareness for VPR, named CricaVPR. Our method uses the attention mechanism to correlate multiple images within a batch. These images can be taken in the same place with different conditions or viewpoints, or even captured from different places. Therefore, our method can utilize the cross-image variations as a cue to guide the representation learning, which ensures more robust features are produced. To further facilitate the robustness, we propose a multi-scale convolution-enhanced adaptation method to adapt pre-trained visual foundation models to the VPR task, which introduces the multi-scale local information to further enhance the cross-image correlation-aware representation. Experimental results show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods by a large margin with significantly less training time. The code is released at https://github.com/Lu-Feng/CricaVPR.
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spellingShingle CricaVPR: Cross-image Correlation-aware Representation Learning for Visual Place Recognition
Lu, Feng
Lan, Xiangyuan
Zhang, Lijun
Jiang, Dongmei
Wang, Yaowei
Yuan, Chun
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Over the past decade, most methods in visual place recognition (VPR) have used neural networks to produce feature representations. These networks typically produce a global representation of a place image using only this image itself and neglect the cross-image variations (e.g. viewpoint and illumination), which limits their robustness in challenging scenes. In this paper, we propose a robust global representation method with cross-image correlation awareness for VPR, named CricaVPR. Our method uses the attention mechanism to correlate multiple images within a batch. These images can be taken in the same place with different conditions or viewpoints, or even captured from different places. Therefore, our method can utilize the cross-image variations as a cue to guide the representation learning, which ensures more robust features are produced. To further facilitate the robustness, we propose a multi-scale convolution-enhanced adaptation method to adapt pre-trained visual foundation models to the VPR task, which introduces the multi-scale local information to further enhance the cross-image correlation-aware representation. Experimental results show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods by a large margin with significantly less training time. The code is released at https://github.com/Lu-Feng/CricaVPR.
title CricaVPR: Cross-image Correlation-aware Representation Learning for Visual Place Recognition
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19231