arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-06-30
Lost in the Tail: Addressing Geographic Imbalance in Urban Visual Place Recognition
Zhiyao Shu, Jiacheng Yang, Yang Lu, Waishan Qiu, Chuan Li, Da Chen
Urban-scale Visual Place Recognition (VPR) aims to identify the geographic location of a query image by matching it against a geo-tagged database. While recent methods achieve impressive performance, they overlook a serious long-tailed problem hidden in urban-scale datasets, whic…