Title
Monte-Carlo Localization in Underground Parking Lots using Parking Slot Numbers
Abstract
Autonomous Valet Parking (AVP) in an underground garage is an emerging smart vehicle solution that the community believes to be solvable with close-to-market sensors. Absence of GPS signals and a high degree of self similarity however render global visual localization in such environments a highly challenging problem. We present a novel underground parking localization method that relies on text recognition in the wild as well as optical character recognition (OCR) to automatically detect parking slot numbers. The detected numbers are then correlated with both geometric as well as semantic information extracted from an offline map of the environment. The resulting measurement model is embedded into a probabilistic Monte-Carlo localization framework. The success of our method is demonstrated on multiple real-world sequences in one of the largest underground parking garages in Shanghai.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/IROS51168.2021.9636465
2021 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS)
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
2153-0858
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Li Cui100.34
Chunyan Rong200.34
Jingyi Huang300.34
Andre Rosendo400.34
Laurent Kneip543632.31