Wild-places: A large-scale dataset for lidar place recognition in unstructured natural environments

J Knights, K Vidanapathirana… - … on robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many existing datasets for lidar place recognition are solely representative of structured
urban environments, and have recently been saturated in performance by deep learning …

Lidar-based place recognition for autonomous driving: A survey

Y Zhang, P Shi, J Li - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.10561, 2023 - arxiv.org
LiDAR-based place recognition (LPR) plays a pivotal role in autonomous driving, which
assists Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems in reducing accumulated …

Robust place recognition using an imaging lidar

T Shan, B Englot, F Duarte, C Ratti… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a methodology for robust, real-time place recognition using an imaging lidar,
which yields image-quality high-resolution 3D point clouds. Utilizing the intensity readings of …

Locus: Lidar-based place recognition using spatiotemporal higher-order pooling

K Vidanapathirana, P Moghadam… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Place Recognition enables the estimation of a globally consistent map and trajectory by
providing non-local constraints in Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM). This …

Bvmatch: Lidar-based place recognition using bird's-eye view images

L Luo, SY Cao, B Han, HL Shen… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recognizing places using Lidar in large-scale environments is challenging due to the
sparse nature of point cloud data. In this letter we present BVMatch, a Lidar-based frame-to …

HeLiPR: Heterogeneous LiDAR dataset for inter-LiDAR place recognition under spatiotemporal variations

M Jung, W Yang, D Lee, H Gil… - … International Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Place recognition is crucial for robot localization and loop closure in simultaneous
localization and mapping (SLAM). Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), known for its …

Season-invariant and viewpoint-tolerant LiDAR place recognition in GPS-denied environments

F Cao, F Yan, S Wang, Y Zhuang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Place recognition remains a challenging problem under various perceptual conditions, eg,
all weather, times of day, seasons, and viewpoint shifts. Different from most of the existing …

Large scale place recognition in 2D LIDAR scans using geometrical landmark relations

M Himstedt, J Frost, S Hellbach… - 2014 IEEE/RSJ …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recognition of places that have already been visited is a fundamental requirement for a
mobile robot. This particularly concerns the detection of loop closures while mapping …

Overlaptransformer: An efficient and yaw-angle-invariant transformer network for lidar-based place recognition

J Ma, J Zhang, J Xu, R Ai, W Gu… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

A fast LiDAR place recognition and localization method by fusing local and global search

P Shi, J Li, Y Zhang - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote …, 2023 - Elsevier
Place recognition is an important branch of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
(SLAM), which finds revisited places, thereby reducing error accumulations. Most …