GSPR: Multimodal Place Recognition Using 3D Gaussian Splatting for Autonomous Driving

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Autori principali: Qi, Zhangshuo, Ma, Junyi, Xu, Jingyi, Zhou, Zijie, Cheng, Luqi, Xiong, Guangming
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author Qi, Zhangshuo
Ma, Junyi
Xu, Jingyi
Zhou, Zijie
Cheng, Luqi
Xiong, Guangming
author_facet Qi, Zhangshuo
Ma, Junyi
Xu, Jingyi
Zhou, Zijie
Cheng, Luqi
Xiong, Guangming
contents Place recognition is a crucial component that enables autonomous vehicles to obtain localization results in GPS-denied environments. In recent years, multimodal place recognition methods have gained increasing attention. They overcome the weaknesses of unimodal sensor systems by leveraging complementary information from different modalities. However, most existing methods explore cross-modality correlations through feature-level or descriptor-level fusion, suffering from a lack of interpretability. Conversely, the recently proposed 3D Gaussian Splatting provides a new perspective on multimodal fusion by harmonizing different modalities into an explicit scene representation. In this paper, we propose a 3D Gaussian Splatting-based multimodal place recognition network dubbed GSPR. It explicitly combines multi-view RGB images and LiDAR point clouds into a spatio-temporally unified scene representation with the proposed Multimodal Gaussian Splatting. A network composed of 3D graph convolution and transformer is designed to extract spatio-temporal features and global descriptors from the Gaussian scenes for place recognition. Extensive evaluations on three datasets demonstrate that our method can effectively leverage complementary strengths of both multi-view cameras and LiDAR, achieving SOTA place recognition performance while maintaining solid generalization ability. Our open-source code will be released at https://github.com/QiZS-BIT/GSPR.
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spellingShingle GSPR: Multimodal Place Recognition Using 3D Gaussian Splatting for Autonomous Driving
Qi, Zhangshuo
Ma, Junyi
Xu, Jingyi
Zhou, Zijie
Cheng, Luqi
Xiong, Guangming
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Place recognition is a crucial component that enables autonomous vehicles to obtain localization results in GPS-denied environments. In recent years, multimodal place recognition methods have gained increasing attention. They overcome the weaknesses of unimodal sensor systems by leveraging complementary information from different modalities. However, most existing methods explore cross-modality correlations through feature-level or descriptor-level fusion, suffering from a lack of interpretability. Conversely, the recently proposed 3D Gaussian Splatting provides a new perspective on multimodal fusion by harmonizing different modalities into an explicit scene representation. In this paper, we propose a 3D Gaussian Splatting-based multimodal place recognition network dubbed GSPR. It explicitly combines multi-view RGB images and LiDAR point clouds into a spatio-temporally unified scene representation with the proposed Multimodal Gaussian Splatting. A network composed of 3D graph convolution and transformer is designed to extract spatio-temporal features and global descriptors from the Gaussian scenes for place recognition. Extensive evaluations on three datasets demonstrate that our method can effectively leverage complementary strengths of both multi-view cameras and LiDAR, achieving SOTA place recognition performance while maintaining solid generalization ability. Our open-source code will be released at https://github.com/QiZS-BIT/GSPR.
title GSPR: Multimodal Place Recognition Using 3D Gaussian Splatting for Autonomous Driving
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00299