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Journal Articles IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Year : 2017

NetVLAD: CNN architecture for weakly supervised place recognition

Abstract

We tackle the problem of large scale visual place recognition, where the task is to quickly and accurately recognize the location of a given query photograph. We present the following four principal contributions. First, we develop a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture that is trainable in an end-to-end manner directly for the place recognition task. The main component of this architecture, NetVLAD, is a new generalized VLAD layer, inspired by the " Vector of Locally Aggregated Descriptors " image representation commonly used in image retrieval. The layer is readily pluggable into any CNN architecture and amenable to training via backpropagation. Second, we create a new weakly supervised ranking loss, which enables end-to-end learning of the architecture's parameters from images depicting the same places over time downloaded from Google Street View Time Machine. Third, we develop an efficient training procedure which can be applied on very large-scale weakly labelled tasks. Finally, we show that the proposed architecture and training procedure significantly outperform non-learnt image representations and off-the-shelf CNN descriptors on challenging place recognition and image retrieval benchmarks.
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hal-01557234 , version 1 (06-07-2017)

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Relja Arandjelovic, Petr Gronat, Akihiko Torii, Tomas Pajdla, Josef Sivic. NetVLAD: CNN architecture for weakly supervised place recognition. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2017, XX. ⟨hal-01557234⟩
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