Online Visual Place Recognition via Saliency Re-identification

Han Wang,Chen Wang,Lihua Xie,Han Wang,Chen Wang,Lihua Xie

As an essential component of visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), place recognition is crucial for robot navigation and autonomous driving. Existing methods often formulate visual place recognition as feature matching, which is computationally expensive for many robotic applications with limited computing power, e.g., autonomous driving and cleaning robot. Inspired by the fact that...