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TRAIL: Trajectory-Aware Visual Place Recognition against Unordered Databases

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 7, 2026 · UTC

Modern Visual Place Recognition (VPR) methods excel on standard benchmarks yet remain brittle in feature-poor environments. By treating each query image in isolation, they discard the sequential context in any real trajectory. We formalize a task that exploits this context: given a query sequence, localize the final image against an unordered reference database -- which, unlike sequence-to-sequence methods, requires no sequential structure in the database. We propose TRAIL (TRajectory-Aware Image Localization), a principled framework based on Conditional Random Fields (CRF) that combines learn

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