TSCM: A Teacher-Student Model for Vision Place Recognition Using Cross-Metric Knowledge Distillation

Yehui Shen,Mingmin Liu,Huimin Lu,Xieyuanli Chen,Yehui Shen,Mingmin Liu,Huimin Lu,Xieyuanli Chen

Visual place recognition (VPR) plays a pivotal role in autonomous exploration and navigation of mobile robots within complex outdoor environments. While cost-effective and easily deployed, camera sensors are sensitive to lighting and weather changes, and even slight image alterations can greatly affect VPR efficiency and precision. Existing methods overcome this by exploiting powerful yet large ne...