Vision-based Place Recognition Using ConvNet Features and Temporal Correlation Between Consecutive Frames

Chu Tak Li, Wan Chi Siu, Daniel P.K. Lun

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Abstract

The most challenging part of vision-based place recognition is the wide variety in appearance of places. However temporal information between consecutive frames can be used to infer the next locations of a vehicle and obtain information about its ego-motion. Effective use of temporal information is useful to narrow the search ranges of the next locations, hence an efficient place recognition system can be accomplished. This paper presents a robust vision-based place recognition method, using the recent discriminative ConvNet features and proposes a flexible tubing strategy which groups consecutive frames based on their similarities. With the tubing strategy, effective pair searching can be achieved. We also suggest to add additional variations in the appearance of places to further enhance the variety of the training data and fine-tune an off-the-shelf, CALC, network model to obtain better generalization about its extracted features. Experimental results show that our proposed temporal correlation based recognition strategy with the fine-tuned model achieves the best (0.572) F1 score improvement over the original CALC model. The proposed place recognition method is also faster than the linear full search method by a factor of 2.15.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, ITSC 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages3062-3067
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538670248
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 Oct 2019
Event2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, ITSC 2019 - Auckland, New Zealand
Duration: 27 Oct 201930 Oct 2019

Publication series

Name2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, ITSC 2019

Conference

Conference2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, ITSC 2019
Country/TerritoryNew Zealand
CityAuckland
Period27/10/1930/10/19

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Instrumentation
  • Transportation

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