VGGT-MPR: VGGT-Enhanced Multimodal Place Recognition in Autonomous Driving Environments
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| author | Xu, Jingyi Qi, Zhangshuo Yan, Zhongmiao Gao, Xuyu Jiao, Qianyun Xia, Songpengcheng Chen, Xieyuanli Pei, Ling |
| author_facet | Xu, Jingyi Qi, Zhangshuo Yan, Zhongmiao Gao, Xuyu Jiao, Qianyun Xia, Songpengcheng Chen, Xieyuanli Pei, Ling |
| contents | In autonomous driving, robust place recognition is critical for global localization and loop closure detection. While inter-modality fusion of camera and LiDAR data in multimodal place recognition (MPR) has shown promise in overcoming the limitations of unimodal counterparts, existing MPR methods basically attend to hand-crafted fusion strategies and heavily parameterized backbones that require costly retraining. To address this, we propose VGGT-MPR, a multimodal place recognition framework that adopts the Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT) as a unified geometric engine for both global retrieval and re-ranking. In the global retrieval stage, VGGT extracts geometrically-rich visual embeddings through prior depth-aware and point map supervision, and densifies sparse LiDAR point clouds with predicted depth maps to improve structural representation. This enhances the discriminative ability of fused multimodal features and produces global descriptors for fast retrieval. Beyond global retrieval, we design a training-free re-ranking mechanism that exploits VGGT's cross-view keypoint-tracking capability. By combining mask-guided keypoint extraction with confidence-aware correspondence scoring, our proposed re-ranking mechanism effectively refines retrieval results without additional parameter optimization. Extensive experiments on large-scale autonomous driving benchmarks and our self-collected data demonstrate that VGGT-MPR achieves state-of-the-art performance, exhibiting strong robustness to severe environmental changes, viewpoint shifts, and occlusions. Our code and data will be made publicly available. |
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| spellingShingle | VGGT-MPR: VGGT-Enhanced Multimodal Place Recognition in Autonomous Driving Environments Xu, Jingyi Qi, Zhangshuo Yan, Zhongmiao Gao, Xuyu Jiao, Qianyun Xia, Songpengcheng Chen, Xieyuanli Pei, Ling Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition In autonomous driving, robust place recognition is critical for global localization and loop closure detection. While inter-modality fusion of camera and LiDAR data in multimodal place recognition (MPR) has shown promise in overcoming the limitations of unimodal counterparts, existing MPR methods basically attend to hand-crafted fusion strategies and heavily parameterized backbones that require costly retraining. To address this, we propose VGGT-MPR, a multimodal place recognition framework that adopts the Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT) as a unified geometric engine for both global retrieval and re-ranking. In the global retrieval stage, VGGT extracts geometrically-rich visual embeddings through prior depth-aware and point map supervision, and densifies sparse LiDAR point clouds with predicted depth maps to improve structural representation. This enhances the discriminative ability of fused multimodal features and produces global descriptors for fast retrieval. Beyond global retrieval, we design a training-free re-ranking mechanism that exploits VGGT's cross-view keypoint-tracking capability. By combining mask-guided keypoint extraction with confidence-aware correspondence scoring, our proposed re-ranking mechanism effectively refines retrieval results without additional parameter optimization. Extensive experiments on large-scale autonomous driving benchmarks and our self-collected data demonstrate that VGGT-MPR achieves state-of-the-art performance, exhibiting strong robustness to severe environmental changes, viewpoint shifts, and occlusions. Our code and data will be made publicly available. |
| title | VGGT-MPR: VGGT-Enhanced Multimodal Place Recognition in Autonomous Driving Environments |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.19735 |