VIPeR: Visual Incremental Place Recognition with Adaptive Mining and Continual Learning

Understand

Visual place recognition (VPR) is an essential component of many autonomous and augmented/virtual reality systems.

• It enables the systems to robustly localize themselves in large-scale environments.
• Existing VPR methods demonstrate attractive performance at the cost of heavy pre-training and limited generalizability.
• When deployed in unseen environments, these methods exhibit significant performance drops.