Visual Place Recognition

Description from the archive archive 2025-07-28.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

40 leaderboard tables shown for this task, 40 with rows (a “benchmark” on this site is a table with at least one row, as on /sota), ordered by row count. “Best model” is the first row in the archive's own order at snapshot; nothing is re-ranked here and metric direction is not recorded in the archive. PwC's Trend sparklines are not in the archive, so that column is omitted. 10 shown of 40 until expanded.

Syntology column: samples harvested from the paper's repositories and executed on synthesized fixtures; “ran” is not a correctness claim and does not order the table. A dash means no Syntology record for that paper, not a recorded non-run. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.

Libraries

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

28 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

3 subtasks in the archive's task tree.

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 141 papers with code (297 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• Emerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision Transformers
  29 Apr 2021 32 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 20 samples · 15 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  In this paper, we question if self-supervised learning provides new properties to Vision Transformer (ViT) that stand out compared to convolutional networks (convnets).
• DINOv2: Learning Robust Visual Features without Supervision
  14 Apr 2023 26 repositories listed Syntology ran 21 of 46 samples · 25 unverified · 12 pointer-only (licence)
  The recent breakthroughs in natural language processing for model pretraining on large quantities of data have opened the way for similar foundation models in computer vision.
• SuperGlue: Learning Feature Matching with Graph Neural Networks
  26 Nov 2019 19 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 22 samples · 16 unverified · 6 pointer-only (licence)
  This paper introduces SuperGlue, a neural network that matches two sets of local features by jointly finding correspondences and rejecting non-matchable points.
• NetVLAD: CNN architecture for weakly supervised place recognition
  23 Nov 2015 14 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 12 samples · 12 unverified
  We tackle the problem of large scale visual place recognition, where the task is to quickly and accurately recognize the location of a given query photograph.
• PointNetVLAD: Deep Point Cloud Based Retrieval for Large-Scale Place Recognition
  10 Apr 2018 6 repositories listed
  This is largely due to the difficulty in extracting local feature descriptors from a point cloud that can subsequently be encoded into a global descriptor for the retrieval task.
• MegaLoc: One Retrieval to Place Them All
  24 Feb 2025 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 6 samples · 5 unverified
  We find that MegaLoc (1) achieves state of the art on a large number of Visual Place Recognition datasets, (2) impressive results on common Landmark Retrieval datasets, and (3) sets a new state of the art for Visual…
• EigenPlaces: Training Viewpoint Robust Models for Visual Place Recognition
  21 Aug 2023 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 11 of 13 samples · 2 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  Visual Place Recognition is a task that aims to predict the place of an image (called query) based solely on its visual features.
• Patch-NetVLAD: Multi-Scale Fusion of Locally-Global Descriptors for Place Recognition
  2 Mar 2021 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 5 samples · 1 unverified
  Visual Place Recognition is a challenging task for robotics and autonomous systems, which must deal with the twin problems of appearance and viewpoint change in an always changing world.
• GeoCLIP: Clip-Inspired Alignment between Locations and Images for Effective Worldwide Geo-localization
  27 Sep 2023 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 13 samples · 8 unverified
  Worldwide Geo-localization aims to pinpoint the precise location of images taken anywhere on Earth.
• From Coarse to Fine: Robust Hierarchical Localization at Large Scale
  9 Dec 2018 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 9 samples · 8 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  In this paper we propose HF-Net, a hierarchical localization approach based on a monolithic CNN that simultaneously predicts local features and global descriptors for accurate 6-DoF localization.
• Visual Localization Under Appearance Change: Filtering Approaches
  20 Nov 2018 3 repositories listed
  Our approaches rely on local features with an encoding technique to represent an image as a single vector.
• NeRF-Supervised Feature Point Detection and Description
  13 Mar 2024 2 repositories listed
  Feature point detection and description is the backbone for various computer vision applications, such as Structure-from-Motion, visual SLAM, and visual place recognition.
• Long-range UAV Thermal Geo-localization with Satellite Imagery
  5 Jun 2023 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 4 of 6 samples · 2 unverified
  This paper proposes a novel thermal geo-localization framework using satellite RGB imagery, which includes multiple domain adaptation methods to address the limited availability of paired thermal and satellite images.
• GlueStick: Robust Image Matching by Sticking Points and Lines Together
  4 Apr 2023 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 20 of 29 samples · 9 unverified · 15 pointer-only (licence)
  Line segments are powerful features complementary to points.
• Rethinking Visual Geo-localization for Large-Scale Applications
  5 Apr 2022 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 10 samples · 4 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  Visual Geo-localization (VG) is the task of estimating the position where a given photo was taken by comparing it with a large database of images of known locations.
• Text2Pos: Text-to-Point-Cloud Cross-Modal Localization
  28 Mar 2022 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 9 of 16 samples · 7 unverified · 16 pointer-only (licence)
  Natural language-based communication with mobile devices and home appliances is becoming increasingly popular and has the potential to become natural for communicating with mobile robots in the future.
• Adaptive-Attentive Geolocalization from few queries: a hybrid approach
  14 Oct 2020 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 8 samples · 7 unverified
  We address the task of cross-domain visual place recognition, where the goal is to geolocalize a given query image against a labeled gallery, in the case where the query and the gallery belong to different visual…
• LPD-Net: 3D Point Cloud Learning for Large-Scale Place Recognition and Environment Analysis
  11 Dec 2018 2 repositories listed
  Point cloud based place recognition is still an open issue due to the difficulty in extracting local features from the raw 3D point cloud and generating the global descriptor, and it's even harder in the large-scale…
• G2D: from GTA to Data
  16 Jun 2018 2 repositories listed
  This document describes G2D, a software that enables capturing videos from Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V), a popular role playing game set in an expansive virtual city.
• Real-Time Visual Place Recognition for Personal Localization on a Mobile Device
  7 Nov 2016 2 repositories listed
  The paper presents an approach to indoor personal localization on a mobile device based on visual place recognition.
• Adversarial Attacks and Detection in Visual Place Recognition for Safer Robot Navigation
  19 Jun 2025 1 repository listed
  Stand-alone Visual Place Recognition (VPR) systems have little defence against a well-designed adversarial attack, which can lead to disastrous consequences when deployed for robot navigation.
• Place Recognition: A Comprehensive Review, Current Challenges and Future Directions
  20 May 2025 1 repository listed
  The unified framework of leading-edge place recognition methods, i.
• Geolocating Earth Imagery from ISS: Integrating Machine Learning with Astronaut Photography for Enhanced Geographic Mapping
  29 Apr 2025 1 repository listed
  Each pipeline is tailored to process high-resolution ISS imagery, identifying both natural and man-made geographical features.
• Visual Re-Ranking with Non-Visual Side Information
  15 Apr 2025 1 repository listed
  In many applications this information is already present or can be acquired with low effort.
• Focus on Local: Finding Reliable Discriminative Regions for Visual Place Recognition
  14 Apr 2025 1 repository listed Syntology ran 3 of 3 samples · 0 unverified
  In this paper, we propose the Focus on Local (FoL) approach to stimulate the performance of image retrieval and re-ranking in VPR simultaneously by mining and exploiting reliable discriminative local regions in images…
• To Match or Not to Match: Revisiting Image Matching for Reliable Visual Place Recognition
  8 Apr 2025 1 repository listed
  Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a critical task in computer vision, traditionally enhanced by re-ranking retrieval results with image matching.
• UGNA-VPR: A Novel Training Paradigm for Visual Place Recognition Based on Uncertainty-Guided NeRF Augmentation
  27 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  This paper introduces a novel training paradigm to improve the performance of existing VPR networks by enhancing multi-view diversity within current datasets through uncertainty estimation and NeRF-based data…
• TextInPlace: Indoor Visual Place Recognition in Repetitive Structures with Scene Text Spotting and Verification
  9 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a crucial capability for long-term autonomous robots, enabling them to identify previously visited locations using visual information.
• StructVPR++: Distill Structural and Semantic Knowledge with Weighting Samples for Visual Place Recognition
  9 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  Most deep learning-based methods in an end-to-end manner cannot extract global features with sufficient semantic information from RGB images.
• Image-Based Relocalization and Alignment for Long-Term Monitoring of Dynamic Underwater Environments
  6 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  Effective monitoring of underwater ecosystems is crucial for tracking environmental changes, guiding conservation efforts, and ensuring long-term ecosystem health.

Syntology lines on 15 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.