SeqSphereVLAD: Sequence Matching Enhanced Orientation-invariant Place Recognition

Peng Yin,Fuying Wang,Anton Egorov,Jiafan Hou,Ji Zhang,Howie Choset,Peng Yin,Fuying Wang,Anton Egorov,Jiafan Hou,Ji Zhang,Howie Choset

Human beings and animals are capable of recognizing places from a previous journey when viewing them under different environmental conditions (e.g., illuminations and weathers). This paper seeks to provide robots with a human-like place recognition ability using a new point cloud feature learning method. This is a challenging problem due to the difficulty of extracting invariant local descriptors ...