Geometry-Conditioned Visual Place Recognition in Natural Environments
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arXiv:2609.27370v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual Place Recognition (VPR) in natural environments remains challenging due to repetitive vegetation, sparse distinctive landmarks, and substantial appearance and viewpoint variation across traversals. While visual observations of the same place can change considerably, their underlying spatial structure is often more persistent. We exploit this complementary geometric consistency through Depth-Aware Distillation (DAD), which conditions the token representations of a pretrained Vision Foundation Model (VFM) on geometry inferred by a Geometri
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- arXiv:2609.27370v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual Place Recognition (VPR) in natural environments remains challenging due to repetitive vegetation, sparse distinctive landmarks, and substantial appearance and viewpoint variation across traversals.
- While visual observations of the same place can change considerably, their underlying spatial structure is often more persistent.
- We exploit this complementary geometric consistency through Depth-Aware Distillation (DAD), which conditions the token representations of a pretrained Vision Foundation Model (VFM) on geometry inferred by a Geometri
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