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Main Authors: Li, Dingrui, Guo, Dedi, Tanaka, Kanji
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11266
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author Li, Dingrui
Guo, Dedi
Tanaka, Kanji
author_facet Li, Dingrui
Guo, Dedi
Tanaka, Kanji
contents In 3D LiDAR-based robot self-localization, pole-like landmarks are gaining popularity as lightweight and discriminative landmarks. This work introduces a novel approach called "discriminative rotation-invariant poles," which enhances the discriminability of pole-like landmarks while maintaining their lightweight nature. Unlike conventional methods that model a pole landmark as a 3D line segment perpendicular to the ground, we propose a simple yet powerful approach that includes not only the line segment's main body but also its surrounding local region of interest (ROI) as part of the pole landmark. Specifically, we describe the appearance, geometry, and semantic features within this ROI to improve the discriminability of the pole landmark. Since such pole landmarks are no longer rotation-invariant, we introduce a novel rotation-invariant convolutional neural network that automatically and efficiently extracts rotation-invariant features from input point clouds for recognition. Furthermore, we train a pole dictionary through unsupervised learning and use it to compress poles into compact pole words, thereby significantly reducing real-time costs while maintaining optimal self-localization performance. Monte Carlo localization experiments using publicly available NCLT dataset demonstrate that the proposed method improves a state-of-the-art pole-based localization framework.
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spellingShingle DRIP: Discriminative Rotation-Invariant Pole Landmark Descriptor for 3D LiDAR Localization
Li, Dingrui
Guo, Dedi
Tanaka, Kanji
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
In 3D LiDAR-based robot self-localization, pole-like landmarks are gaining popularity as lightweight and discriminative landmarks. This work introduces a novel approach called "discriminative rotation-invariant poles," which enhances the discriminability of pole-like landmarks while maintaining their lightweight nature. Unlike conventional methods that model a pole landmark as a 3D line segment perpendicular to the ground, we propose a simple yet powerful approach that includes not only the line segment's main body but also its surrounding local region of interest (ROI) as part of the pole landmark. Specifically, we describe the appearance, geometry, and semantic features within this ROI to improve the discriminability of the pole landmark. Since such pole landmarks are no longer rotation-invariant, we introduce a novel rotation-invariant convolutional neural network that automatically and efficiently extracts rotation-invariant features from input point clouds for recognition. Furthermore, we train a pole dictionary through unsupervised learning and use it to compress poles into compact pole words, thereby significantly reducing real-time costs while maintaining optimal self-localization performance. Monte Carlo localization experiments using publicly available NCLT dataset demonstrate that the proposed method improves a state-of-the-art pole-based localization framework.
title DRIP: Discriminative Rotation-Invariant Pole Landmark Descriptor for 3D LiDAR Localization
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11266