arxivcs.CV2026-07-14
Breaking Déjà Vu: Independent Auditing of Visual Place Recognition through Vision-Language Reasoning
Sania Waheed, Michael Milford, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Shoaib Ehsan
Visual place recognition (VPR) is a key enabler of accurate localization and long-term autonomous navigation in robotics applications, such as loop closure detection for simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM). However, real-world VPR deployment relies on selecting an image…