Global visual localization in LiDAR-maps through shared 2D-3D embedding space

D. Cattaneo,M. Vaghi,S. Fontana,A. L. Ballardini,D. G. Sorrenti,D. Cattaneo,M. Vaghi,S. Fontana,A. L. Ballardini,D. G. Sorrenti

Global localization is an important and widely studied problem for many robotic applications. Place recognition approaches can be exploited to solve this task, e.g., in the autonomous driving field. While most vision-based approaches match an image w.r.t. an image database, global visual localization within LiDAR-maps remains fairly unexplored, even though the path toward high definition 3D maps, ...