自動車用スピニングミリ波レーダによる場所認識のための空間ゲート付き特徴相関表現
Automotive mmWave Spinning Radar Place Recognition with Spatially Gated Feature-Correlation Representation
スピニングFMCWレーダの極座標表現における見出し方向変化に対応するため、回転に頑健な特徴抽出と空間ゲート付き相関集約を組み合わせたSGCA-Netを提案し、場所認識精度を向上させた。
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著者: Saimunur Rahman, Sagun Singh Shrestha, Abdelwahed Khamis, Peyman Moghadam
分類: cs.RO, cs.AI, cs.CV
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Automotive spinning FMCW radar provides dense, $360^\circ$ sensing and remains reliable under poor illumination and adverse weather, making it well-suited to autonomous navigation. Place recognition uses these observations to identify previously visited locations for re-localization and long-term navigation. However, heading changes appear as circular shifts in the polar radar representation, and conventional global aggregation can lose relationships among radar responses that are important for distinguishing similar places. We propose SGCA-Net, a spinning radar place recognition framework that combines rotation-robust feature extraction with Spatially Gated Correlation Aggregation (SGCA). SGCA learns spatial weights to reduce the influence of unstable and ambiguous radar regions, while aggregating pairwise correlations among local responses to preserve informative feature relationships. Experiments on the MulRan dataset show that SGCA-Net consistently outperforms SOTA methods across urban, campus, and open-road environments, while remaining robust to substantial heading variation. Evaluation on the HeRCULES dataset further demonstrates that SGCA-Net generalizes to unseen environments and radar sensors without fine-tuning.