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BoxGraph: semantic place recognition and pose estimation from 3D LiDAR

Abstract:
This paper is about extremely robust and lightweight localisation using LiDAR point clouds based on instance segmentation and graph matching. We model 3D point clouds as fully-connected graphs of semantically identified components where each vertex corresponds to an object instance and encodes its shape. Optimal vertex association across graphs allows for full 6-Degree-of-Freedom (DoF) pose estimation and place recognition by measuring similarity. This representation is very concise, condensing the size of maps by a factor of 25 against the state-of-the-art, requiring only 3 kB to represent a 1.4 MB laser scan. We verify the efficacy of our system on the SemanticKITTI dataset, where we achieve a new state-of-the-art in place recognition, with an average of 88.4 % recall at 100 % precision where the next closest competitor follows with 64.9 %. We also show accurate metric pose estimation performance - estimating 6-DoF pose with median errors of 10cm and 0.33 deg.
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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981266

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Engineering Science
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0001-6121-5839
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Engineering Science
Oxford college:
Keble College
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0001-6562-8454


Publisher:
IEEE
Host title:
2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Pages:
7004-7011
Series:
IROS 2022
Series number:
35
Publication date:
2021-12-26
Event title:
2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Event series:
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Event location:
Kyoto, Japan
Event website:
https://iros2022.org/
Event start date:
2022-10-23
Event end date:
2022-10-27
DOI:
EISSN:
2153-0866
ISSN:
2153-0858
ISBN:
9781665479271


Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1325843
Local pid:
pubs:1325843
Deposit date:
2023-02-16

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