視覚的位置認識モデルは場所を認識しているのか、それとも条件を認識しているのか？ディストラクタ拡張評価と条件抑制
Are Visual Place Recognition Models Recognizing Places or Conditions? Distractor-Augmented Evaluation and Condition Suppression
視覚的位置認識（VPR）の評価において、条件（照明・天候など）が似ているが場所が異なるディストラクタ画像が混在する場合の性能を測る新指標DARを導入し、条件情報を抑制する手法で頑健性が向上することを示した。
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著者: Beomsu Kim, Minwoo Jung, Giseop Kim
分類: cs.RO, cs.CV
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Long-term Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is typically evaluated by matching queries from one condition against a database from another. Crowdsourced map databases, however, may mix conditions and include images that resemble the query in condition but depict different places. In the presence of these distractors, a method may retrieve by condition similarity rather than place identity. We argue that this susceptibility arises because the discriminability of VPR methods allows them to encode information such as illumination, weather, and seasonal appearance in their descriptors. We therefore introduce Distractor-Augmented Recall (DAR) to isolate and quantify the effect of distractors, and propose condition suppression to remove condition information from VPR descriptors. Across eleven methods and six datasets, method rankings under DAR@1 differ from those under Recall@1 (R@1), while applying INLP and LEACE as condition suppression methods generally improves DAR@1 without reducing R@1. Thus, distractor robustness is distinct from standard retrieval performance and can be improved by suppressing condition information.
