BoxGraph: semantic place recognition and pose estimation from 3D LiDAR

This paper is about extremely robust and lightweight localisation using LiDAR point clouds based on instance segmentation and graph matching. We model 3D point clouds as fully-connected graphs of semantically identified components where each vertex corresponds to an object instance and encodes its s...

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Main Authors: Pramatarov, G, De Martini, D, Gadd, M, Newman, P
Format: Conference item
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2021
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author Pramatarov, G
De Martini, D
Gadd, M
Newman, P
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Gadd, M
Newman, P
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description This paper is about extremely robust and lightweight localisation using LiDAR point clouds based on instance segmentation and graph matching. We model 3D point clouds as fully-connected graphs of semantically identified components where each vertex corresponds to an object instance and encodes its shape. Optimal vertex association across graphs allows for full 6-Degree-of-Freedom (DoF) pose estimation and place recognition by measuring similarity. This representation is very concise, condensing the size of maps by a factor of 25 against the state-of-the-art, requiring only 3 kB to represent a 1.4 MB laser scan. We verify the efficacy of our system on the SemanticKITTI dataset, where we achieve a new state-of-the-art in place recognition, with an average of 88.4 % recall at 100 % precision where the next closest competitor follows with 64.9 %. We also show accurate metric pose estimation performance - estimating 6-DoF pose with median errors of 10cm and 0.33 deg.
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spelling oxford-uuid:49f84a11-fff9-4e27-a391-e8b05270af4b2023-02-28T12:46:48ZBoxGraph: semantic place recognition and pose estimation from 3D LiDARConference itemhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794uuid:49f84a11-fff9-4e27-a391-e8b05270af4bEnglishSymplectic ElementsIEEE2021Pramatarov, GDe Martini, DGadd, MNewman, PThis paper is about extremely robust and lightweight localisation using LiDAR point clouds based on instance segmentation and graph matching. We model 3D point clouds as fully-connected graphs of semantically identified components where each vertex corresponds to an object instance and encodes its shape. Optimal vertex association across graphs allows for full 6-Degree-of-Freedom (DoF) pose estimation and place recognition by measuring similarity. This representation is very concise, condensing the size of maps by a factor of 25 against the state-of-the-art, requiring only 3 kB to represent a 1.4 MB laser scan. We verify the efficacy of our system on the SemanticKITTI dataset, where we achieve a new state-of-the-art in place recognition, with an average of 88.4 % recall at 100 % precision where the next closest competitor follows with 64.9 %. We also show accurate metric pose estimation performance - estimating 6-DoF pose with median errors of 10cm and 0.33 deg.
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Newman, P
BoxGraph: semantic place recognition and pose estimation from 3D LiDAR
title BoxGraph: semantic place recognition and pose estimation from 3D LiDAR
title_full BoxGraph: semantic place recognition and pose estimation from 3D LiDAR
title_fullStr BoxGraph: semantic place recognition and pose estimation from 3D LiDAR
title_full_unstemmed BoxGraph: semantic place recognition and pose estimation from 3D LiDAR
title_short BoxGraph: semantic place recognition and pose estimation from 3D LiDAR
title_sort boxgraph semantic place recognition and pose estimation from 3d lidar
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