CoHOG: A light-weight, compute-efficient, and training-free visual place recognition technique for changing environments

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This letter presents a novel, compute-efficient and training-free approach based on Histogram-of-Oriented-Gradients (HOG) descriptor for achieving state-of-the-art performance-per-compute-unit in Visual Place Recognition (VPR). The inspiration for this approach (namely CoHOG) is based on the convolutional scanning and regions-based feature extraction employed by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). By using image entropy to extract regions-of-interest (ROI) and regional-convolutional descriptor matching, our technique performs successful place recognition in changing environments. We use viewpoint- and appearance-variant public VPR datasets to report this matching performance, at lower RAM commitment, zero training requirements and 20 times lesser feature encoding time compared to state-of-the-art neural networks. We also discuss the image retrieval time of CoHOG and the effect of CoHOG's parametric variation on its place matching performance and encoding time.

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Zaffar, M., Ehsan, S., Milford, M., & McDonald-Maier, K. (2020). CoHOG: A light-weight, compute-efficient, and training-free visual place recognition technique for changing environments. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 5(2), 1835–1842. https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2020.2969917

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