Semantic Reinforced Attention Learning for Visual Place Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08443v1
• Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 02:14:36 GMT
• Title: Semantic Reinforced Attention Learning for Visual Place Recognition
• Authors: Guohao Peng, Yufeng Yue, Jun Zhang, Zhenyu Wu, Xiaoyu Tang and Danwei Wang
• Abstract summary: Large-scale visual place recognition (VPR) is inherently challenging because not all visual cues in the image are beneficial to the task. We propose a novel Semantic Reinforced Attention Learning Network (SRALNet), in which the inferred attention can benefit from both semantic priors and data-driven fine-tuning. Experiments demonstrate that our method outperforms state-of-the-art techniques on city-scale VPR benchmark datasets.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Large-scale visual place recognition (VPR) is inherently challenging because not all visual cues in the image are beneficial to the task. In order to highlight the task-relevant visual cues in the feature embedding, the existing attention mechanisms are either based on artificial rules or trained in a thorough data-driven manner. To fill the gap between the two types, we propose a novel Semantic Reinforced Attention Learning Network (SRALNet), in which the inferred attention can benefit from both semantic priors and data-driven fine-tuning. The contribution lies in two-folds. (1) To suppress misleading local features, an interpretable local weighting scheme is proposed based on hierarchical feature distribution. (2) By exploiting the interpretability of the local weighting scheme, a semantic constrained initialization is proposed so that the local attention can be reinforced by semantic priors. Experiments demonstrate that our method outperforms state-of-the-art techniques on city-scale VPR benchmark datasets.

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