OverlapTransformer: An Efficient and Rotation-Invariant Transformer Network for LiDAR-Based Place Recognition

03/07/2022
by   Junyi Ma, et al.
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Place recognition is an important capability for autonomously navigating vehicles operating in complex environments and under changing conditions. It is a key component for tasks such as loop closing in SLAM or global localization. In this paper, we address the problem of place recognition based on 3D LiDAR scans recorded by an autonomous vehicle. We propose a novel lightweight neural network exploiting the range image representation of LiDAR sensors to achieve fast execution with less than 4 ms per frame. Based on that, we design a yaw-rotation-invariant architecture exploiting a transformer network, which boosts the place recognition performance of our method. We evaluate our approach on the KITTI and Ford Campus datasets. The experimental results show that our method can effectively detect loop closures compared to the state-of-the-art methods and generalizes well across different environments. To further evaluate long-term place recognition performance, we provide a novel challenging Haomo dataset, which contains LiDAR sequences recorded by a mobile robot in repetitive places across seasons. Both the implementation of our method and our new Haomo dataset are released here: https://github.com/haomo-ai/OverlapTransformer

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