提出不确定性感知的视觉定位框架,提升城市复杂环境下的自动驾驶定位精度。
U-ViLAR: Uncertainty-Aware Visual Localization for Autonomous Driving via Differentiable Association and Registration
- 通过感知与定位不确定性引导的关联与配准,增强定位鲁棒性。
- 在多场景测试中达到当前最优定位性能,支持大尺度高精地图适配。
- 适合需要高精度、强鲁棒性的自动驾驶定位系统研发人员使用。
基于视觉信息的精准定位是自动驾驶中的关键挑战,尤其在城市环境中,邻近建筑和施工区域会严重削弱全球导航卫星系统(GNSS)信号质量。本文提出U-ViLAR,一种新型不确定性感知视觉定位框架,旨在应对此类挑战,并支持在高精地图或导航地图下实现自适应定位。首先,从输入视觉数据中提取特征,并映射至鸟瞰图(BEV)空间,以增强与地图输入的空间一致性。随后引入两项创新:a)感知不确定性引导的关联机制,缓解感知不确定性带来的误差;b)定位不确定性引导的配准机制,降低定位不确定性引入的偏差。通过有效平衡关联的粗粒度大范围定位能力与配准的细粒度精确定位能力,该方法实现了鲁棒且准确的定位。实验表明,该方法在多项定位任务中均达到当前最优性能。此外,模型已在大规模自动驾驶车队上完成严格测试,在多种复杂城市场景中表现出稳定性能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Accurate localization using visual information is a critical yet challenging task, especially in urban environments where nearby buildings and construction sites significantly degrade GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) signal quality. This issue underscores the importance of visual localization techniques in scenarios where GNSS signals are unreliable. This paper proposes U-ViLAR, a novel uncertainty-aware visual localization framework designed to address these challenges while enabling adaptive localization using high-definition (HD) maps or navigation maps. Specifically, our method first extracts features from the input visual data and maps them into Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) space to enhance spatial consistency with the map input. Subsequently, we introduce: a) Perceptual Uncertainty-guided Association, which mitigates errors caused by perception uncertainty, and b) Localization Uncertainty-guided Registration, which reduces errors introduced by localization uncertainty. By effectively balancing the coarse-grained large-scale localization capability of association with the fine-grained precise localization capability of registration, our approach achieves robust and accurate localization. Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple localization tasks. Furthermore, our model has undergone rigorous testing on large-scale autonomous driving fleets and has demonstrated stable performance in various challenging urban scenarios.
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