Lidar-based place recognition for autonomous driving: A survey

Y Zhang, P Shi, J Li - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
LiDAR has gained popularity in autonomous driving due to advantages like long
measurement distance, rich three-dimensional information, and stability in harsh …

Role of deep learning in loop closure detection for visual and lidar slam: A survey

S Arshad, GW Kim - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Loop closure detection is of vital importance in the process of simultaneous localization and
map** (SLAM), as it helps to reduce the cumulative error of the robot's estimated pose and …

Scan context++: Structural place recognition robust to rotation and lateral variations in urban environments

G Kim, S Choi, A Kim - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Place recognition is a key module in robotic navigation. The existing line of studies mostly
focuses on visual place recognition to recognize previously visited places solely based on …

L3-net: Towards learning based lidar localization for autonomous driving

W Lu, Y Zhou, G Wan, S Hou… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present L3-Net-a novel learning-based LiDAR localization system that achieves
centimeter-level localization accuracy, comparable to prior state-of-the-art systems with …

Multimodal end-to-end autonomous driving

Y **: Towards the age of spatial machine intelligence
C Chen, B Wang, CX Lu, N Trigoni… - ar** has recently attracted significant attention.
Instead of creating hand-designed algorithms through exploitation of physical models or …

SegMap: Segment-based map** and localization using data-driven descriptors

R Dube, A Cramariuc, D Dugas… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Precisely estimating a robot's pose in a prior, global map is a fundamental capability for
mobile robotics, eg, autonomous driving or exploration in disaster zones. This task, however …

Lidar iris for loop-closure detection

Y Wang, Z Sun, CZ Xu, SE Sarma… - 2020 IEEE/RSJ …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a global descriptor for a LiDAR point cloud, called LiDAR Iris, is proposed for
fast and accurate loop-closure detection. A binary signature image can be obtained for each …

Semantic graph based place recognition for 3d point clouds

X Kong, X Yang, G Zhai, X Zhao, X Zeng… - 2020 IEEE/RSJ …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the difficulty in generating the effective descriptors which are robust to occlusion and
viewpoint changes, place recognition for 3D point cloud remains an open issue. Unlike most …

A survey on map-based localization techniques for autonomous vehicles

A Chalvatzaras, I Pratikakis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicles integrate complex software stacks for realizing the necessary iterative
perception, planning, and action operations. One of the foundational layers of such stacks is …