Visual Place Recognition

Visual Place Recognition is the task of matching a view of a place with a different view of the same place taken at a different time.

Source: Visual place recognition using landmark distribution descriptors

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Papers

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Title	Date	Tasks	Status	Hype
DINOv2: Learning Robust Visual Features without Supervision	Apr 14, 2023	Depth EstimationDomain Generalization	CodeCode Available	6
Towards Seamless Adaptation of Pre-trained Models for Visual Place Recognition	Feb 22, 2024	Re-RankingVisual Place Recognition	CodeCode Available	3
SelaVPR++: Towards Seamless Adaptation of Foundation Models for Efficient Place Recognition	Feb 23, 2025	Deep HashingGPU	CodeCode Available	3
AnyLoc: Towards Universal Visual Place Recognition	Aug 1, 2023	Image RetrievalVisual Place Recognition	CodeCode Available	2
MixVPR: Feature Mixing for Visual Place Recognition	Mar 3, 2023	Autonomous DrivingImage Retrieval	CodeCode Available	2
Multiview Scene Graph	Oct 15, 2024	DecoderObject	CodeCode Available	2
Rethinking Visual Geo-localization for Large-Scale Applications	Apr 5, 2022	Contrastive Learninggeo-localization	CodeCode Available	2
ProGEO: Generating Prompts through Image-Text Contrastive Learning for Visual Geo-localization	Jun 4, 2024	geo-localizationVisual Place Recognition	CodeCode Available	2
Game4Loc: A UAV Geo-Localization Benchmark from Game Data	Sep 25, 2024	Drone-view target localizationgeo-localization	CodeCode Available	2
VOLoc: Visual Place Recognition by Querying Compressed Lidar Map	Feb 25, 2024	Pose EstimationTransfer Learning	CodeCode Available	2
CV-Cities: Advancing Cross-View Geo-Localization in Global Cities	Nov 19, 2024	Cross-View Geo-LocalisationDrone-view target localization	CodeCode Available	2
CricaVPR: Cross-image Correlation-aware Representation Learning for Visual Place Recognition	Feb 29, 2024	Representation LearningVisual Place Recognition	CodeCode Available	2
GlueStick: Robust Image Matching by Sticking Points and Lines Together	Apr 4, 2023	Graph Neural NetworkPose Estimation	CodeCode Available	2
MegaLoc: One Retrieval to Place Them All	Feb 24, 2025	3D ReconstructionAll	CodeCode Available	2
Pair-VPR: Place-Aware Pre-training and Contrastive Pair Classification for Visual Place Recognition with Vision Transformers	Oct 9, 2024	DecoderRe-Ranking	CodeCode Available	2
Optimal Transport Aggregation for Visual Place Recognition	Nov 27, 2023	Re-RankingVisual Place Recognition	CodeCode Available	2
Deep Homography Estimation for Visual Place Recognition	Feb 25, 2024	Homography EstimationRe-Ranking	CodeCode Available	2
Revisit Anything: Visual Place Recognition via Image Segment Retrieval	Sep 26, 2024	Image SegmentationNavigate	CodeCode Available	2
GeoCLIP: Clip-Inspired Alignment between Locations and Images for Effective Worldwide Geo-localization	Sep 27, 2023	Contrastive Learninggeo-localization	CodeCode Available	2
BoQ: A Place is Worth a Bag of Learnable Queries	May 12, 2024	Image Similarity SearchRetrieval	CodeCode Available	2
Place Recognition: A Comprehensive Review, Current Challenges and Future Directions	May 20, 2025	3D Place RecognitionCross-modal place recognition	CodeCode Available	2
Visual place recognition for aerial imagery: A survey	Jun 2, 2024	SurveyVisual Localization	CodeCode Available	2
Image-Based Relocalization and Alignment for Long-Term Monitoring of Dynamic Underwater Environments	Mar 6, 2025	Image SegmentationManagement	CodeCode Available	1
How Many Events do You Need? Event-based Visual Place Recognition Using Sparse But Varying Pixels	Jun 28, 2022	Visual Place Recognition	CodeCode Available	1
Improving Point Cloud Based Place Recognition with Ranking-based Loss and Large Batch Training	Mar 2, 2022	3D Place RecognitionImage Retrieval	CodeCode Available	1
Adversarial Attacks and Detection in Visual Place Recognition for Safer Robot Navigation	Jun 19, 2025	Adversarial AttackRobot Navigation	CodeCode Available	1
GSV-Cities: Toward Appropriate Supervised Visual Place Recognition	Oct 19, 2022	Image RetrievalMetric Learning	CodeCode Available	1
Applications of Spiking Neural Networks in Visual Place Recognition	Nov 22, 2023	Visual Place Recognition	CodeCode Available	1
Are Local Features All You Need for Cross-Domain Visual Place Recognition?	Apr 12, 2023	AllRe-Ranking	CodeCode Available	1
HPointLoc: Point-based Indoor Place Recognition using Synthetic RGB-D Images	Dec 30, 2022	Image RetrievalRetrieval	CodeCode Available	1
Collaborative Dense SLAM	Nov 19, 2018	Camera Pose EstimationPose Estimation	CodeCode Available	1
Generalized Contrastive Optimization of Siamese Networks for Place Recognition	Mar 11, 2021	Image RetrievalRepresentation Learning	CodeCode Available	1
Global Proxy-based Hard Mining for Visual Place Recognition	Feb 28, 2023	Image RetrievalImage Similarity Search	CodeCode Available	1
Hierarchical Multi-Process Fusion for Visual Place Recognition	Jan 28, 2020	Sensor FusionVisual Localization	CodeCode Available	1
Improving Visual Place Recognition Based Robot Navigation By Verifying Localization Estimates	Jul 11, 2024	PositionRobot Navigation	CodeCode Available	1
Event-based visual place recognition with ensembles of temporal windows	May 22, 2020	Image ReconstructionVisual Place Recognition	CodeCode Available	1
AANet: Aggregation and Alignment Network with Semi-hard Positive Sample Mining for Hierarchical Place Recognition	Oct 8, 2023	Re-RankingTriplet	CodeCode Available	1
Fast, Compact and Highly Scalable Visual Place Recognition through Sequence-based Matching of Overloaded Representations	Jan 23, 2020	Image CompressionQuantization	CodeCode Available	1
ALTO: A Large-Scale Dataset for UAV Visual Place Recognition and Localization	Jul 19, 2022	BenchmarkingImage Registration	CodeCode Available	1
EigenPlaces: Training Viewpoint Robust Models for Visual Place Recognition	Aug 21, 2023	GPUImage Retrieval	CodeCode Available	1
EDTformer: An Efficient Decoder Transformer for Visual Place Recognition	Dec 1, 2024	DecoderRe-Ranking	CodeCode Available	1
Adaptive-Attentive Geolocalization from few queries: a hybrid approach	Oct 14, 2020	Domain AdaptationUnsupervised Domain Adaptation	CodeCode Available	1
Breaking the Frame: Visual Place Recognition by Overlap Prediction	Jun 23, 2024	Image RetrievalPose Estimation	CodeCode Available	1
Bridging Text and Vision: A Multi-View Text-Vision Registration Approach for Cross-Modal Place Recognition	Feb 20, 2025	Cross-modal place recognitionNatural Language Understanding	CodeCode Available	1
Condition-Invariant and Compact Visual Place Description by Convolutional Autoencoder	Apr 15, 2022	Visual Place Recognition	CodeCode Available	1
Enhancing Visual Place Recognition via Fast and Slow Adaptive Biasing in Event Cameras	Mar 25, 2024	Visual Place Recognition	CodeCode Available	1
Close, But Not There: Boosting Geographic Distance Sensitivity in Visual Place Recognition	Jul 2, 2024	SensitivityVisual Place Recognition	CodeCode Available	1
Efficient 3D Point Cloud Feature Learning for Large-Scale Place Recognition	Jan 7, 2021	Point Cloud RetrievalRetrieval	CodeCode Available	1
Emerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision Transformers	Apr 29, 2021	Copy DetectionImage Classification	CodeCode Available	1
Focus on Local: Finding Reliable Discriminative Regions for Visual Place Recognition	Apr 14, 2025	Computational EfficiencyImage Retrieval	CodeCode Available	1

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All datasets Pittsburgh-30k-test Mapillary val St Lucia Tokyo247 Nordland Pittsburgh-250k-test Mapillary test 17 Places AmsterTime Baidu Mall Nardo-Air R VP Air

Benchmark Results

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	Pair-VPR-p	Recall@1	95.4	—	Unverified
2	Pair-VPR-s	Recall@1	94.7	—	Unverified
3	FoL	Recall@1	94.5	—	Unverified
4	QAA-DINOv2-B-8192	Recall@1	94.4	—	Unverified
5	EffoVPR	Recall@1	93.9	—	Unverified
6	FoL-global	Recall@1	93.9	—	Unverified
7	BoQ	Recall@1	93.7	—	Unverified
8	SegVLAD-FineT (M)	Recall@1	93.1	—	Unverified
9	ProGEO	Recall@1	93	—	Unverified
10	SelaVPR	Recall@1	92.8	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	QAA-DINOv2-B-8192	Recall@1	97.6	—	Unverified
2	Pair-VPR-p	Recall@1	95.4	—	Unverified
3	BoQ	Recall@1	93.8	—	Unverified
4	Pair-VPR-s	Recall@1	93.7	—	Unverified
5	FoL	Recall@1	93.5	—	Unverified
6	FoL-global	Recall@1	93.1	—	Unverified
7	EffoVPR	Recall@1	92.8	—	Unverified
8	DINOv2 SALAD	Recall@1	92.2	—	Unverified
9	BoQ (ResNet-50)	Recall@1	91.2	—	Unverified
10	SelaVPR	Recall@1	90.8	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	EffoVPR	Recall@1	100	—	Unverified
2	BoQ	Recall@5	100	—	Unverified
3	BoQ (DINOv2)	Recall@1	100	—	Unverified
4	FoL	Recall@1	99.9	—	Unverified
5	FoL-global	Recall@1	99.9	—	Unverified
6	SelaVPR	Recall@1	99.8	—	Unverified
7	ProGEO	Recall@1	99.7	—	Unverified
8	MixVPR	Recall@1	99.66	—	Unverified
9	CosPlace	Recall@1	99.59	—	Unverified
10	AnyLoc-VLAD-DINOv2	Recall@1	96.17	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	Pair-VPR-p	Recall@1	100	—	Unverified
2	EffoVPR	Recall@1	98.7	—	Unverified
3	QAA-DINOv2-B-8192	Recall@1	98.4	—	Unverified
4	FoL	Recall@1	98.4	—	Unverified
5	BoQ	Recall@1	98.1	—	Unverified
6	Pair-VPR-s	Recall@1	98.1	—	Unverified
7	FoL-global	Recall@1	96.2	—	Unverified
8	CosPlace (ResNet-101 2048-D)	Recall@5	95.9	—	Unverified
9	SelaVPR	Recall@1	94	—	Unverified
10	EigenPlaces	Recall@1	93	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	QAA-DINOv2-B-8192	Recall@1	96.7	—	Unverified
2	EffoVPR	Recall@1	95	—	Unverified
3	FoL	Recall@1	92.6	—	Unverified
4	BoQ	Recall@1	90.6	—	Unverified
5	FoL-global	Recall@1	87.8	—	Unverified
6	SelaVPR	Recall@1	86.6	—	Unverified
7	DINOv2 SALAD (1-frame thr.)	Recall@1	85.2	—	Unverified
8	BoQ (ResNet-50)	Recall@1	83.1	—	Unverified
9	MixVPR	Recall@1	76	—	Unverified
10	Patch-NetVLAD	Recall@1	58.4	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	FoL	Recall@1	97	—	Unverified
2	BoQ	Recall@1	96.6	—	Unverified
3	QAA-DINOv2-B-8192	Recall@1	96.6	—	Unverified
4	FoL-global	Recall@1	96.5	—	Unverified
5	SelaVPR	Recall@1	95.7	—	Unverified
6	DINOv2 SALAD	Recall@1	95.1	—	Unverified
7	BoQ (ResNet-50)	Recall@1	95	—	Unverified
8	MixVPR	Recall@1	94.6	—	Unverified
9	EigenPlaces	Recall@1	94.1	—	Unverified
10	Conv-AP	Recall@1	92.4	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	QAA-DINOv2-B-8192	Recall@1	85.7	—	Unverified
2	Pair-VPR-p	Recall@1	81.7	—	Unverified
3	FoL	Recall@1	80	—	Unverified
4	EffoVPR	Recall@1	79	—	Unverified
5	Pair-VPR-s	Recall@1	79	—	Unverified
6	BoQ	Recall@1	79	—	Unverified
7	FoL-global	Recall@1	78.7	—	Unverified
8	DINOv2 SALAD	Recall@1	75	—	Unverified
9	SelaVPR	Recall@1	73.5	—	Unverified
10	MixVPR	Recall@1	64	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	SegVLAD-FineT (M)	Recall@1	95.3	—	Unverified
2	AnyLoc-VLAD-DINOv2	Recall@1	65.02	—	Unverified
3	MixVPR	Recall@1	63.79	—	Unverified
4	DINOv2	Recall@1	61.82	—	Unverified
5	DINO	Recall@1	61.82	—	Unverified
6	NetVLAD	Recall@1	61.58	—	Unverified
7	CosPlace	Recall@1	61.08	—	Unverified
8	CLIP	Recall@1	59.36	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	FoL	Recall@1	70.1	—	Unverified
2	EffoVPR	Recall@1	65.5	—	Unverified
3	FoL-global	Recall@1	64.6	—	Unverified
4	QAA-DINOv2-B-8192	Recall@1	63.7	—	Unverified
5	BoQ	Recall@1	63	—	Unverified
6	SegVLAD-FineT (M)	Recall@1	60.2	—	Unverified
7	BoQ (ResNet-50)	Recall@1	52.2	—	Unverified
8	EigenPlaces	Recall@1	48.9	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	SegVLAD-PreT (M)	Recall@1	80.4	—	Unverified
2	AnyLoc-VLAD-DINOv2	Recall@1	75.22	—	Unverified
3	MixVPR	Recall@1	64.44	—	Unverified
4	CLIP	Recall@1	56.02	—	Unverified
5	NetVLAD	Recall@1	53.1	—	Unverified
6	DINOv2	Recall@1	49.21	—	Unverified
7	DINO	Recall@1	48.3	—	Unverified
8	CosPlace	Recall@1	41.62	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	AnyLoc-VLAD-DINO	Recall@1	94.37	—	Unverified
2	CosPlace	Recall@1	91.55	—	Unverified
3	AnyLoc-VLAD-DINOv2	Recall@1	85.92	—	Unverified
4	DINO	Recall@1	84.51	—	Unverified
5	MixVPR	Recall@1	76.06	—	Unverified
6	DINOv2	Recall@1	71.83	—	Unverified
7	CLIP	Recall@1	61.97	—	Unverified
8	NetVLAD	Recall@1	60.56	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	SegVLAD-PreT (M)	Recall@1	67.2	—	Unverified
2	AnyLoc-VLAD-DINOv2	Recall@1	66.74	—	Unverified
3	DINOv2	Recall@1	45.23	—	Unverified
4	CLIP	Recall@1	36.59	—	Unverified
5	DINO	Recall@1	24.02	—	Unverified
6	MixVPR	Recall@1	10.31	—	Unverified
7	CosPlace	Recall@1	8.12	—	Unverified
8	NetVLAD	Recall@1	6.39	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	QAA-DINOv2-B-8192	Recall@1	92.9	—	Unverified
2	FoL	Recall@1	92.4	—	Unverified
3	BoQ	Recall@1	92.2	—	Unverified
4	FoL-global	Recall@1	91.7	—	Unverified
5	BoQ (ResNet-50)	Recall@1	91.3	—	Unverified
6	EffoVPR	Recall@1	91	—	Unverified
7	EigenPlaces	Recall@1	90.7	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	AnyLoc-VLAD-DINOv2	Recall@1	95.5	—	Unverified
2	MixVPR	Recall@1	91.5	—	Unverified
3	DINO	Recall@1	78.5	—	Unverified
4	CosPlace	Recall@1	74	—	Unverified
5	DINOv2	Recall@1	71.5	—	Unverified
6	NetVLAD	Recall@1	58.5	—	Unverified
7	CLIP	Recall@1	42.5	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	AnyLoc-VLAD-DINOv2	Recall@1	65.25	—	Unverified
2	DINO	Recall@1	46.61	—	Unverified
3	NetVLAD	Recall@1	34.75	—	Unverified
4	CLIP	Recall@1	33.05	—	Unverified
5	CosPlace	Recall@1	31.36	—	Unverified
6	DINOv2	Recall@1	27.97	—	Unverified
7	MixVPR	Recall@1	25.42	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	AnyLoc-VLAD-DINOv2	Recall@1	61.61	—	Unverified
2	DINO	Recall@1	41.07	—	Unverified
3	DINOv2	Recall@1	40.18	—	Unverified
4	NetVLAD	Recall@1	39.29	—	Unverified
5	CLIP	Recall@1	36.61	—	Unverified
6	MixVPR	Recall@1	29.46	—	Unverified
7	CosPlace	Recall@1	24.11	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	AnyLoc-VLAD-DINOv2	Recall@1	34.65	—	Unverified
2	DINO	Recall@1	27.72	—	Unverified
3	NetVLAD	Recall@1	25.74	—	Unverified
4	MixVPR	Recall@1	25.74	—	Unverified
5	CLIP	Recall@1	25.74	—	Unverified
6	DINOv2	Recall@1	24.75	—	Unverified
7	CosPlace	Recall@1	20.79	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	AnyLoc-VLAD-DINOv2	Recall@1	76.06	—	Unverified
2	DINOv2	Recall@1	73.24	—	Unverified
3	DINO	Recall@1	57.75	—	Unverified
4	CLIP	Recall@1	42.25	—	Unverified
5	MixVPR	Recall@1	32.39	—	Unverified
6	NetVLAD	Recall@1	19.72	—	Unverified
7	CosPlace	Recall@1	0	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	AnyLoc-VLAD-DINOv2	Recall@1	98.95	—	Unverified
2	CosPlace	Recall@1	91.1	—	Unverified
3	MixVPR	Recall@1	90.05	—	Unverified
4	NetVLAD	Recall@1	52.88	—	Unverified
5	DINOv2	Recall@1	39.79	—	Unverified
6	CLIP	Recall@1	34.55	—	Unverified
7	DINO	Recall@1	15.71	—	Unverified

#	Model	Metric	Claimed	Verified	Status
1	BoQ	Recall@1	92.5	—	Unverified
2	FoL-global	Recall@1	92.1	—	Unverified
3	DINOv2 SALAD	Recall@1	92.1	—	Unverified
4	FoL	Recall@1	91.8	—	Unverified
5	QAA-DINOv2-B-8192	Recall@1	91.8	—	Unverified