Unifying Local and Global Multimodal Features for Place Recognition in Aliased and Low-Texture Environments

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Autori principali: García-Hernández, Alberto, Giubilato, Riccardo, Strobl, Klaus H., Civera, Javier, Triebel, Rudolph
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author García-Hernández, Alberto
Giubilato, Riccardo
Strobl, Klaus H.
Civera, Javier
Triebel, Rudolph
author_facet García-Hernández, Alberto
Giubilato, Riccardo
Strobl, Klaus H.
Civera, Javier
Triebel, Rudolph
contents Perceptual aliasing and weak textures pose significant challenges to the task of place recognition, hindering the performance of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems. This paper presents a novel model, called UMF (standing for Unifying Local and Global Multimodal Features) that 1) leverages multi-modality by cross-attention blocks between vision and LiDAR features, and 2) includes a re-ranking stage that re-orders based on local feature matching the top-k candidates retrieved using a global representation. Our experiments, particularly on sequences captured on a planetary-analogous environment, show that UMF outperforms significantly previous baselines in those challenging aliased environments. Since our work aims to enhance the reliability of SLAM in all situations, we also explore its performance on the widely used RobotCar dataset, for broader applicability. Code and models are available at https://github.com/DLR-RM/UMF
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spellingShingle Unifying Local and Global Multimodal Features for Place Recognition in Aliased and Low-Texture Environments
García-Hernández, Alberto
Giubilato, Riccardo
Strobl, Klaus H.
Civera, Javier
Triebel, Rudolph
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Perceptual aliasing and weak textures pose significant challenges to the task of place recognition, hindering the performance of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems. This paper presents a novel model, called UMF (standing for Unifying Local and Global Multimodal Features) that 1) leverages multi-modality by cross-attention blocks between vision and LiDAR features, and 2) includes a re-ranking stage that re-orders based on local feature matching the top-k candidates retrieved using a global representation. Our experiments, particularly on sequences captured on a planetary-analogous environment, show that UMF outperforms significantly previous baselines in those challenging aliased environments. Since our work aims to enhance the reliability of SLAM in all situations, we also explore its performance on the widely used RobotCar dataset, for broader applicability. Code and models are available at https://github.com/DLR-RM/UMF
title Unifying Local and Global Multimodal Features for Place Recognition in Aliased and Low-Texture Environments
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13395