SwitchHit: A Probabilistic, Complementarity-Based Switching System for Improved Visual Place Recognition in Changing Environments

Maria Waheed,Michael Milford,Klaus McDonald-Maier,Shoaib Ehsan,Maria Waheed,Michael Milford,Klaus McDonald-Maier,Shoaib Ehsan

Visual place recognition (VPR) - a fundamental task in computer vision and robotics - is the problem of identifying a place mainly based on visual information. View-point and appearance changes, such as due to weather and seasonal variations, make this task challenging. Currently, there is no universal VPR technique that can work in all types of environments, on a variety of robotic platforms, and...