EEPNet-V2: Patch-to-Pixel Solution for Efficient Cross-Modal Registration between LiDAR Point Cloud and Camera Image

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Main Authors: Yue, Yuanchao, Yuan, Hui, Li, Zhengxin, Li, Shuai, Zhang, Wei
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Published: 2025
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author Yue, Yuanchao
Yuan, Hui
Li, Zhengxin
Li, Shuai
Zhang, Wei
author_facet Yue, Yuanchao
Yuan, Hui
Li, Zhengxin
Li, Shuai
Zhang, Wei
contents The primary requirement for cross-modal data fusion is the precise alignment of data from different sensors. However, the calibration between LiDAR point clouds and camera images is typically time-consuming and needs external calibration board or specific environmental features. Cross-modal registration effectively solves this problem by aligning the data directly without requiring external calibration. However, due to the domain gap between the point cloud and the image, existing methods rarely achieve satisfactory registration accuracy while maintaining real-time performance. To address this issue, we propose a framework that projects point clouds into several 2D representations for matching with camera images, which not only leverages the geometric characteristic of LiDAR point clouds effectively but also bridge the domain gap between the point cloud and image. Moreover, to tackle the challenges of cross modal differences and the limited overlap between LiDAR point clouds and images in the image matching task, we introduce a multi-scale feature extraction network to effectively extract features from both camera images and the projection maps of LiDAR point cloud. Additionally, we propose a patch-to-pixel matching network to provide more effective supervision and achieve high accuracy. We validate the performance of our model through experiments on the KITTI and nuScenes datasets. Experimental results demonstrate the the proposed method achieves real-time performance and extremely high registration accuracy. Specifically, on the KITTI dataset, our model achieves a registration accuracy rate of over 99\%. Our code is released at: https://github.com/ESRSchao/EEPNet-V2.
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spellingShingle EEPNet-V2: Patch-to-Pixel Solution for Efficient Cross-Modal Registration between LiDAR Point Cloud and Camera Image
Yue, Yuanchao
Yuan, Hui
Li, Zhengxin
Li, Shuai
Zhang, Wei
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The primary requirement for cross-modal data fusion is the precise alignment of data from different sensors. However, the calibration between LiDAR point clouds and camera images is typically time-consuming and needs external calibration board or specific environmental features. Cross-modal registration effectively solves this problem by aligning the data directly without requiring external calibration. However, due to the domain gap between the point cloud and the image, existing methods rarely achieve satisfactory registration accuracy while maintaining real-time performance. To address this issue, we propose a framework that projects point clouds into several 2D representations for matching with camera images, which not only leverages the geometric characteristic of LiDAR point clouds effectively but also bridge the domain gap between the point cloud and image. Moreover, to tackle the challenges of cross modal differences and the limited overlap between LiDAR point clouds and images in the image matching task, we introduce a multi-scale feature extraction network to effectively extract features from both camera images and the projection maps of LiDAR point cloud. Additionally, we propose a patch-to-pixel matching network to provide more effective supervision and achieve high accuracy. We validate the performance of our model through experiments on the KITTI and nuScenes datasets. Experimental results demonstrate the the proposed method achieves real-time performance and extremely high registration accuracy. Specifically, on the KITTI dataset, our model achieves a registration accuracy rate of over 99\%. Our code is released at: https://github.com/ESRSchao/EEPNet-V2.
title EEPNet-V2: Patch-to-Pixel Solution for Efficient Cross-Modal Registration between LiDAR Point Cloud and Camera Image
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15285