GPCO: An Unsupervised Green Point Cloud Odometry Method

12/08/2021
by   Pranav Kadam, et al.
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Visual odometry aims to track the incremental motion of an object using the information captured by visual sensors. In this work, we study the point cloud odometry problem, where only the point cloud scans obtained by the LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) are used to estimate object's motion trajectory. A lightweight point cloud odometry solution is proposed and named the green point cloud odometry (GPCO) method. GPCO is an unsupervised learning method that predicts object motion by matching features of consecutive point cloud scans. It consists of three steps. First, a geometry-aware point sampling scheme is used to select discriminant points from the large point cloud. Second, the view is partitioned into four regions surrounding the object, and the PointHop++ method is used to extract point features. Third, point correspondences are established to estimate object motion between two consecutive scans. Experiments on the KITTI dataset are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the GPCO method. It is observed that GPCO outperforms benchmarking deep learning methods in accuracy while it has a significantly smaller model size and less training time.

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