Abstract: This paper proposes a novel architecture that efficiently integrates visual place recognition (VPR) and loop closure detection (LCD) into a unified system, evaluated on challenging outdoor ...

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Abstract: Capturing object semantics and their spatial relationships is crucial to estimating scene similarity for loop closure detection. Existing semantic loop closure detection methods generally ...