DXPR: 視覚基盤モデルを用いた深度ベースの視覚-LiDARクロスモーダル位置認識
DXPR: Depth-Based Vision-LiDAR Cross-Modal Place Recognition Using Vision Foundation Models
カメラ画像とLiDARスキャンを統一的な深度画像に変換し、視覚基盤モデルを用いてモダリティ非依存のグローバル記述子を学習することで、事前構築されたLiDARマップ内でのカメラのみによるロバストな位置認識を実現する。
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著者: Yungsoo Han, Youngseok Jang, Seungwon Roh, Jeongyeon Seo, H. Jin Kim
分類: cs.CV
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We present DXPR, a depth-based cross-modal place recognition (CMPR) framework that uses vision foundation models (VFMs) to match monocular camera queries against a LiDAR map without modality-specific encoders. This enables robots and autonomous vehicles to robustly localize using only cameras within pre-built LiDAR maps, even under severe seasonal, weather, and illumination changes. The key idea is to convert both camera images and LiDAR scans into a unified depth image representation so that a single VFM backbone with an aggregation head can learn modality-invariant global descriptors. To make pairwise metric learning faithful to scene geometry, we introduce a geometry-aware overlap miner: after cross-modal scale alignment of camera and LiDAR depth, we forward-warp measurements between views to compute a pixel-level overlap score. This score relabels ambiguous pairs and adaptively modulates the positive margin in a multi-similarity loss to avoid overfitting on weakly overlapping views. Extensive experiments on KITTI odometry and Boreas demonstrate strong performance and robustness across seasons, weather, and day/night. On KITTI, DXPR achieves near-perfect Recall@1 on most sequences and outperforms prior CMPR baselines. On Boreas, DXPR achieves intra-sequence performance on par with a strong single-modal baseline (DINOv2-SALAD), while showing clear improvements in the more challenging inter-sequence setting. Compared with RangeBEV, our method consistently performs better in both intra- and inter-sequence evaluations, demonstrating robustness under diverse seasonal and illumination changes.