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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
Multi-View 3D Object Detection Network for Autonomous Driving
This paper aims at high-accuracy 3D object detection in autonomous driving
scenario. We propose Multi-View 3D networks (MV3D), a sensory-fusion framework
that takes both LIDAR point cloud and RGB images as input and predicts oriented
3D bounding boxes. We encode the sparse 3D point cloud with a compact
multi-view representation. The network is composed of two subnetworks: one for
3D object proposal generation and another for multi-view feature fusion. The
proposal network generates 3D candidate boxes efficiently from the bird's eye
view representation of 3D point cloud. We design a deep fusion scheme to
combine region-wise features from multiple views and enable interactions
between intermediate layers of different paths. Experiments on the challenging
KITTI benchmark show that our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art by
around 25% and 30% AP on the tasks of 3D localization and 3D detection. In
addition, for 2D detection, our approach obtains 10.3% higher AP than the
state-of-the-art on the hard data among the LIDAR-based methods.Comment: To appear in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition (CVPR) 201
Find your Way by Observing the Sun and Other Semantic Cues
In this paper we present a robust, efficient and affordable approach to
self-localization which does not require neither GPS nor knowledge about the
appearance of the world. Towards this goal, we utilize freely available
cartographic maps and derive a probabilistic model that exploits semantic cues
in the form of sun direction, presence of an intersection, road type, speed
limit as well as the ego-car trajectory in order to produce very reliable
localization results. Our experimental evaluation shows that our approach can
localize much faster (in terms of driving time) with less computation and more
robustly than competing approaches, which ignore semantic information
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