Place Recognition under Occlusion and Changing Appearance via Disentangled Representations

Yue Chen,Xingyu Chen,Yicen Li,Yue Chen,Xingyu Chen,Yicen Li

Place recognition is a critical and challenging task for mobile robots, aiming to retrieve an image captured at the same place as a query image from a database. Existing methods tend to fail while robots move autonomously under occlusion (e.g., car, bus, truck) and changing appearance (e.g., illumination changes, seasonal variation). Because they encode the image into only one code, entangling pla...