EgoNN: Egocentric Neural Network for Point Cloud Based 6DoF Relocalization at the City Scale
Jacek Komorowski, Monika Wysoczanska, Tomasz Trzcinski
Abstract
The letter presents a deep neural network-based method for global and local descriptors extraction from a point cloud acquired by a rotating 3D LiDAR. The descriptors can be used for two-stage 6DoF relocalization. First, a course position is retrieved by finding candidates with the closest global descriptor in the database of geo-tagged point clouds. Then, the 6DoF pose between a query point cloud and a database point cloud is estimated by matching local descriptors and using a robust estimator such as RANSAC. Our method has a simple, fully convolutional architecture based on a sparse voxelized representation. It can efficiently extract a global descriptor and a set of keypoints with local descriptors from large point clouds with tens of thousand points. Our code and pretrained models are publicly available on the project website.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{ral2022_egonnegocentricn,
title = {EgoNN: Egocentric Neural Network for Point Cloud Based 6DoF Relocalization at the City Scale},
author = {Jacek Komorowski and Monika Wysoczanska and Tomasz Trzcinski},
booktitle = {RA-L 2022},
year = {2022}
}