Oct 2026
Rethinking the Aggregation Head: Competitive Slot Distillation for Robust Visual Place Recognition.
Visual Place Recognition (VPR) localizes a query image by retrieving the best-matching place from a large-scale geo-tagged database. Its key challenge lies in aggregating the stable structural cues from distractor-saturated scenes into a global descriptor. Existing aggregation methods follow a single-pass paradigm that...
Guan-Yu Zong, Xu Li, Dong Kong et al.
· IEEE Transactions on Pattern... · 0 citations