FlashMix: Fast Map-Free LiDAR Localization via Feature Mixing and Contrastive-Constrained Accelerated Training

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Main Authors: Goswami, Raktim Gautam, Patel, Naman, Krishnamurthy, Prashanth, Khorrami, Farshad
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author Goswami, Raktim Gautam
Patel, Naman
Krishnamurthy, Prashanth
Khorrami, Farshad
author_facet Goswami, Raktim Gautam
Patel, Naman
Krishnamurthy, Prashanth
Khorrami, Farshad
contents Map-free LiDAR localization systems accurately localize within known environments by predicting sensor position and orientation directly from raw point clouds, eliminating the need for large maps and descriptors. However, their long training times hinder rapid adaptation to new environments. To address this, we propose FlashMix, which uses a frozen, scene-agnostic backbone to extract local point descriptors, aggregated with an MLP mixer to predict sensor pose. A buffer of local descriptors is used to accelerate training by orders of magnitude, combined with metric learning or contrastive loss regularization of aggregated descriptors to improve performance and convergence. We evaluate FlashMix on various LiDAR localization benchmarks, examining different regularizations and aggregators, demonstrating its effectiveness for rapid and accurate LiDAR localization in real-world scenarios. The code is available at https://github.com/raktimgg/FlashMix.
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spellingShingle FlashMix: Fast Map-Free LiDAR Localization via Feature Mixing and Contrastive-Constrained Accelerated Training
Goswami, Raktim Gautam
Patel, Naman
Krishnamurthy, Prashanth
Khorrami, Farshad
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Map-free LiDAR localization systems accurately localize within known environments by predicting sensor position and orientation directly from raw point clouds, eliminating the need for large maps and descriptors. However, their long training times hinder rapid adaptation to new environments. To address this, we propose FlashMix, which uses a frozen, scene-agnostic backbone to extract local point descriptors, aggregated with an MLP mixer to predict sensor pose. A buffer of local descriptors is used to accelerate training by orders of magnitude, combined with metric learning or contrastive loss regularization of aggregated descriptors to improve performance and convergence. We evaluate FlashMix on various LiDAR localization benchmarks, examining different regularizations and aggregators, demonstrating its effectiveness for rapid and accurate LiDAR localization in real-world scenarios. The code is available at https://github.com/raktimgg/FlashMix.
title FlashMix: Fast Map-Free LiDAR Localization via Feature Mixing and Contrastive-Constrained Accelerated Training
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00702