Vehicle Localization Using 3D Building Models and Point Cloud Matching

Detecting buildings in the surroundings of an urban vehicle and matching them to building models available on map services is an emerging trend in robotics localization for urban vehicles. In this paper, we present a novel technique, which improves a previous work by detecting building facade, their...

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Autores: Ballardini, Augusto Luis|||0000-0001-6688-5081, Fontana, Simone, Cattaneo, Daniele, Matteucci, Matteo, Sorrenti, Domenico Giorgio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/63593
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10017/63593
https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21165356
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Urban vehicle localization
Point cloud processing
Autonomous vehicle
Robot perception
Robótica e Informática Industrial
Robotics
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Sumario:Detecting buildings in the surroundings of an urban vehicle and matching them to building models available on map services is an emerging trend in robotics localization for urban vehicles. In this paper, we present a novel technique, which improves a previous work by detecting building facade, their positions, and finding the correspondences with their 3D models, available in OpenStreetMap. The proposed technique uses segmented point clouds produced using stereo images, processed by a convolutional neural network. The point clouds of the facades are then matched against a reference point cloud, produced extruding the buildings' outlines, which are available on OpenStreetMap (OSM). In order to produce a lane-level localization of the vehicle, the resulting information is then fed into our probabilistic framework, called Road Layout Estimation (RLE). We prove the effectiveness of this proposal, testing it on sequences from the well-known KITTI dataset and comparing the results concerning a basic RLE version without the proposed pipeline.