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HPPLO-Net: Unsupervised LiDAR Odometry Using a Hierarchical Point-to-Plane Solver
Zhou,Beibei1; Tu,Yiming1; Jin,Zhong1; Xu,Chengzhong2; Kong,Hui2
2023
Source PublicationIEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
ISSN2379-8858
Volume9Issue:1Pages:2727-2739
Abstract

High-precision LiDAR odometry (LO) plays an essential role in autonomous driving. Generally, due to inaccurate data associations and the existence of outliers, it is a challenging task to estimate ego-motions reliably and efficiently given sparse and complexly distributed point clouds in outdoor environments. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised method for LiDAR odometry, named HPPLO-Net, to predict the relative pose of a LiDAR sensor in a hierarchical way. Specifically, we achieve accurate 6-DoF (Degree of Freedom) pose estimation between the source and target point clouds using a differentiable Point-to-Plane solver with the assistance of scene flow. The novel Point-to-Plane solver consists of a multi-scale aggregation (MSA) normal estimation layer and a differentiable weighted Point-to-Plane SVD module. The MSA layer is introduced to find reliable normal vectors of the pseudo target point cloud by aggregating multi-scale contextual information. The differentiable weighted Point-to-Plane SVD is embedded in the network to solve the pose matrix and alleviate the problem of lacking accurate data association in two LiDAR scans, which exists in the point-to-point alternatives. To reduce the impact of noises and outliers, our method can learn and update the inlier mask and the (residual) flow uncertainty at each layer of the hierarchy. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on the KITTI Odometry Dataset, Ford Campus Vision and Lidar DataSet, and the Apollo-SouthBay Dataset. Our method has achieved superior performance than recent unsupervised learning-based methods and some traditional geometry-based methods and has also achieved promising performance close to A-LOAM with mapping optimization. The source code of our method is available at https://github.com/IMRL/HPPLO-Net.

KeywordCosts Feature Extraction Hierarchical Framework Laser Radar Lidar Odometry Msa Layer Odometry Optimization Point Cloud Compression Scene Flow Three-dimensional Displays Weighted Point-to-plane Svd
DOI10.1109/TIV.2023.3288943
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Indexed BySCIE
Language英語English
WOS Research AreaComputer Science ; Engineering ; Transportation
WOS SubjectComputer Science, Artificial Intelligence ; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic ; Transportation Science & Technology
WOS IDWOS:001173317800227
PublisherIEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 445 HOES LANE, PISCATAWAY, NJ 08855-4141
Scopus ID2-s2.0-85163425582
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CollectionFaculty of Science and Technology
THE STATE KEY LABORATORY OF INTERNET OF THINGS FOR SMART CITY (UNIVERSITY OF MACAU)
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Affiliation1.Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
2.State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City (SKL-IOTSC), Department of Electromechanical Engineering (EME), University of Macau, Macau, China
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Zhou,Beibei,Tu,Yiming,Jin,Zhong,et al. HPPLO-Net: Unsupervised LiDAR Odometry Using a Hierarchical Point-to-Plane Solver[J]. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2023, 9(1), 2727-2739.
APA Zhou,Beibei., Tu,Yiming., Jin,Zhong., Xu,Chengzhong., & Kong,Hui (2023). HPPLO-Net: Unsupervised LiDAR Odometry Using a Hierarchical Point-to-Plane Solver. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 9(1), 2727-2739.
MLA Zhou,Beibei,et al."HPPLO-Net: Unsupervised LiDAR Odometry Using a Hierarchical Point-to-Plane Solver".IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles 9.1(2023):2727-2739.
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