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Stress-Testing LiDAR Registration
Point cloud registration (PCR) is an important task in many fields including
autonomous driving with LiDAR sensors. PCR algorithms have improved
significantly in recent years, by combining deep-learned features with robust
estimation methods. These algorithms succeed in scenarios such as indoor scenes
and object models registration. However, testing in the automotive LiDAR
setting, which presents its own challenges, has been limited. The standard
benchmark for this setting, KITTI-10m, has essentially been saturated by recent
algorithms: many of them achieve near-perfect recall.
In this work, we stress-test recent PCR techniques with LiDAR data. We
propose a method for selecting balanced registration sets, which are
challenging sets of frame-pairs from LiDAR datasets. They contain a balanced
representation of the different relative motions that appear in a dataset, i.e.
small and large rotations, small and large offsets in space and time, and
various combinations of these.
We perform a thorough comparison of accuracy and run-time on these
benchmarks. Perhaps unexpectedly, we find that the fastest and simultaneously
most accurate approach is a version of advanced RANSAC. We further improve
results with a novel pre-filtering method