Title
Learning 3D Segment Descriptors for Place Recognition.
Abstract
In the absence of global positioning information, place recognition is a key capability for enabling localization, mapping and navigation in any environment. Most place recognition methods rely on images, point clouds, or a combination of both. In this work we leverage a segment extraction and matching approach to achieve place recognition in Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) based 3D point cloud maps. One challenge related to this approach is the recognition of segments despite changes in point of view or occlusion. We propose using a learning based method in order to reach a higher recall accuracy then previously proposed methods. Using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which are state-of-the-art classifiers, we propose a new approach to segment recognition based on learned descriptors. In this paper we compare the effectiveness of three different structures and training methods for CNNs. We demonstrate through several experiments on real-world data collected in an urban driving scenario that the proposed learning based methods outperform hand-crafted descriptors.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
arXiv: Robotics
Pattern recognition,Convolutional neural network,Control engineering,Lidar,Ranging,Global Positioning System,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Point cloud,Recall
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1804.09270
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrei Cramariuc1234.21
Renaud Dubé2769.81
Hannes Sommer3746.81
Roland Siegwart47640551.49
Igor Gilitschenski57813.89