HIO-SDF: Hierarchical Incremental Online Signed Distance Fields
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| author | Vasilopoulos, Vasileios Garg, Suveer Huh, Jinwook Lee, Bhoram Isler, Volkan |
| author_facet | Vasilopoulos, Vasileios Garg, Suveer Huh, Jinwook Lee, Bhoram Isler, Volkan |
| contents | A good representation of a large, complex mobile robot workspace must be space-efficient yet capable of encoding relevant geometric details. When exploring unknown environments, it needs to be updatable incrementally in an online fashion. We introduce HIO-SDF, a new method that represents the environment as a Signed Distance Field (SDF). State of the art representations of SDFs are based on either neural networks or voxel grids. Neural networks are capable of representing the SDF continuously. However, they are hard to update incrementally as neural networks tend to forget previously observed parts of the environment unless an extensive sensor history is stored for training. Voxel-based representations do not have this problem but they are not space-efficient especially in large environments with fine details. HIO-SDF combines the advantages of these representations using a hierarchical approach which employs a coarse voxel grid that captures the observed parts of the environment together with high-resolution local information to train a neural network. HIO-SDF achieves a 46% lower mean global SDF error across all test scenes than a state of the art continuous representation, and a 30% lower error than a discrete representation at the same resolution as our coarse global SDF grid. Videos and code are available at: https://samsunglabs.github.io/HIO-SDF-project-page/ |
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| spellingShingle | HIO-SDF: Hierarchical Incremental Online Signed Distance Fields Vasilopoulos, Vasileios Garg, Suveer Huh, Jinwook Lee, Bhoram Isler, Volkan Robotics Artificial Intelligence A good representation of a large, complex mobile robot workspace must be space-efficient yet capable of encoding relevant geometric details. When exploring unknown environments, it needs to be updatable incrementally in an online fashion. We introduce HIO-SDF, a new method that represents the environment as a Signed Distance Field (SDF). State of the art representations of SDFs are based on either neural networks or voxel grids. Neural networks are capable of representing the SDF continuously. However, they are hard to update incrementally as neural networks tend to forget previously observed parts of the environment unless an extensive sensor history is stored for training. Voxel-based representations do not have this problem but they are not space-efficient especially in large environments with fine details. HIO-SDF combines the advantages of these representations using a hierarchical approach which employs a coarse voxel grid that captures the observed parts of the environment together with high-resolution local information to train a neural network. HIO-SDF achieves a 46% lower mean global SDF error across all test scenes than a state of the art continuous representation, and a 30% lower error than a discrete representation at the same resolution as our coarse global SDF grid. Videos and code are available at: https://samsunglabs.github.io/HIO-SDF-project-page/ |
| title | HIO-SDF: Hierarchical Incremental Online Signed Distance Fields |
| topic | Robotics Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09463 |