The paper presents MegaEvent, an event‑based visual place recognition system that remains robust to viewpoint changes. By converting five large‑scale geo‑tagged datasets into synthetic event streams and fine‑tuning a vision transformer with a multi‑loss function, MegaEvent achieves an average Recall@1 of 82% on three event‑based localization datasets, outperforming existing methods by 20 recall points. The authors also introduce the Springfield‑Event‑VPR dataset, a 3.7 km walking route recorded in three camera orientations, where MegaEvent surpasses the strongest baseline by 9 recall points.
By Adam D. Hines, Michael Milford, Tobias Fischer
arXiv:2609.17168v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Autonomous systems require reliable place recognition for efficient and effective simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM). Traditional geometric...
By Mayowa Adebambo, Sebastian Donnelly, Armand Amaritei, Andrew Bradley, Alexander Rast
Global visual localization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using remote-sensing reference maps has attracted increasing attention. However, acquisition-time and imaging-platform differences between UAV and reference imagery induce substantial cross-domain appearance and viewpoint shifts, challenging robust six-degree-of-freedom (6-DoF) pose estimation.
arXiv:2607.02486v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Descriptor-free visual localization eliminates high-dimensional descriptor storage, preserves scene privacy, and simplifies map maintenance, yet it...
By Yejun Zhang, Xinjue Wang, Zihan Wang, Esa Rahtu, Juho Kannala
arXiv:2607.20116v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Global visual localization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using remote-sensing reference maps has attracted increasing attention. However, diff...
By Xin Li, Siyuan Duan, Shang Wang, Zhimin Mao, Bingliang Hu, Geng Zhang
arXiv:2609.02012v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Point-of-interest (POI) localization matches user-provided storefront close-ups to the same shops in wide, geo-tagged vehicle-mounted street views....
By Lu Han, Xiting Sun, Hao Wang, Zhiqiang Cao, Ruihuan Du, Ziquan Zeng, Chunlong Lv