Highly-Efficient Binary Neural Networks for Visual Place Recognition

Bruno Ferrarini,Michael Milford,Klaus D. McDonald-Maier,Shoaib Ehsan,Bruno Ferrarini,Michael Milford,Klaus D. McDonald-Maier,Shoaib Ehsan

VPR is a fundamental task for autonomous navigation as it enables a robot to localize itself in the workspace when a known location is detected. Although accuracy is an essential requirement for a VPR technique, computational and energy efficiency are not less important for real-world applications. CNN-based techniques archive state-of-the-art VPR performance but are computationally intensive and ...