627 research outputs found
Learning to See the Wood for the Trees: Deep Laser Localization in Urban and Natural Environments on a CPU
Localization in challenging, natural environments such as forests or
woodlands is an important capability for many applications from guiding a robot
navigating along a forest trail to monitoring vegetation growth with handheld
sensors. In this work we explore laser-based localization in both urban and
natural environments, which is suitable for online applications. We propose a
deep learning approach capable of learning meaningful descriptors directly from
3D point clouds by comparing triplets (anchor, positive and negative examples).
The approach learns a feature space representation for a set of segmented point
clouds that are matched between a current and previous observations. Our
learning method is tailored towards loop closure detection resulting in a small
model which can be deployed using only a CPU. The proposed learning method
would allow the full pipeline to run on robots with limited computational
payload such as drones, quadrupeds or UGVs.Comment: Accepted for publication at RA-L/ICRA 2019. More info:
https://ori.ox.ac.uk/esm-localizatio
PointSSC: A Cooperative Vehicle-Infrastructure Point Cloud Benchmark for Semantic Scene Completion
Semantic Scene Completion (SSC) aims to jointly generate space occupancies
and semantic labels for complex 3D scenes. Most existing SSC models focus on
volumetric representations, which are memory-inefficient for large outdoor
spaces. Point clouds provide a lightweight alternative but existing benchmarks
lack outdoor point cloud scenes with semantic labels. To address this, we
introduce PointSSC, the first cooperative vehicle-infrastructure point cloud
benchmark for semantic scene completion. These scenes exhibit long-range
perception and minimal occlusion. We develop an automated annotation pipeline
leveraging Segment Anything to efficiently assign semantics. To benchmark
progress, we propose a LiDAR-based model with a Spatial-Aware Transformer for
global and local feature extraction and a Completion and Segmentation
Cooperative Module for joint completion and segmentation. PointSSC provides a
challenging testbed to drive advances in semantic point cloud completion for
real-world navigation.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, submitted to ICRA202
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