That's My Point: Compact Object-centric LiDAR Pose Estimation for Large-scale Outdoor Localisation

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Main Authors: Pramatarov, Georgi, Gadd, Matthew, Newman, Paul, De Martini, Daniele
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Published: 2024
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author Pramatarov, Georgi
Gadd, Matthew
Newman, Paul
De Martini, Daniele
author_facet Pramatarov, Georgi
Gadd, Matthew
Newman, Paul
De Martini, Daniele
contents This paper is about 3D pose estimation on LiDAR scans with extremely minimal storage requirements to enable scalable mapping and localisation. We achieve this by clustering all points of segmented scans into semantic objects and representing them only with their respective centroid and semantic class. In this way, each LiDAR scan is reduced to a compact collection of four-number vectors. This abstracts away important structural information from the scenes, which is crucial for traditional registration approaches. To mitigate this, we introduce an object-matching network based on self- and cross-correlation that captures geometric and semantic relationships between entities. The respective matches allow us to recover the relative transformation between scans through weighted Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and RANdom SAmple Consensus (RANSAC). We demonstrate that such representation is sufficient for metric localisation by registering point clouds taken under different viewpoints on the KITTI dataset, and at different periods of time localising between KITTI and KITTI-360. We achieve accurate metric estimates comparable with state-of-the-art methods with almost half the representation size, specifically 1.33 kB on average.
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spellingShingle That's My Point: Compact Object-centric LiDAR Pose Estimation for Large-scale Outdoor Localisation
Pramatarov, Georgi
Gadd, Matthew
Newman, Paul
De Martini, Daniele
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
This paper is about 3D pose estimation on LiDAR scans with extremely minimal storage requirements to enable scalable mapping and localisation. We achieve this by clustering all points of segmented scans into semantic objects and representing them only with their respective centroid and semantic class. In this way, each LiDAR scan is reduced to a compact collection of four-number vectors. This abstracts away important structural information from the scenes, which is crucial for traditional registration approaches. To mitigate this, we introduce an object-matching network based on self- and cross-correlation that captures geometric and semantic relationships between entities. The respective matches allow us to recover the relative transformation between scans through weighted Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and RANdom SAmple Consensus (RANSAC). We demonstrate that such representation is sufficient for metric localisation by registering point clouds taken under different viewpoints on the KITTI dataset, and at different periods of time localising between KITTI and KITTI-360. We achieve accurate metric estimates comparable with state-of-the-art methods with almost half the representation size, specifically 1.33 kB on average.
title That's My Point: Compact Object-centric LiDAR Pose Estimation for Large-scale Outdoor Localisation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04755