PointLoc: Deep Pose Regressor for LiDAR Point Cloud Localization

03/05/2020
by   Wei Wang, et al.
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In this paper, we present a novel end-to-end learning-based LiDAR relocalization framework, termed PointLoc, which infers 6-DoF poses directly using only a single point cloud as input, without requiring a pre-built map. Compared to RGB image-based relocalization, LiDAR frames can provide rich and robust geometric information about a scene. However, LiDAR point clouds are sparse and unstructured making it difficult to apply traditional deep learning regression models for this task. We address this issue by proposing a novel PointNet-style architecture with self-attention to efficiently estimate 6-DoF poses from 360 LiDAR input frames. Extensive experiments on recently released challenging Oxford Radar RobotCar dataset and real-world robot experiments demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve accurate relocalization performance. We show that our approach improves the state-of-the-art MapNet by 69.59 AtLoc by 66.86 outdoor large-scale Oxford Radar RobotCar dataset.

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