arXiv:2507.05999cs.CVcs.AI2025-07被引 1

无需GNSS信号,用卫星图精准对齐地面激光点云。

Geo-Registration of Terrestrial LiDAR Point Clouds with Satellite Images without GNSS

  • 用Point Transformer提取道路骨架和交叉口,实现跨模态匹配。
  • 平面误差降至0.69米(KITTI),高程相关性提升超30%。
  • 适合城市点云后处理,尤其在无可靠定位信号时使用。

在城市环境中,全球导航卫星系统(GNSS)信号常被遮挡或衰减,导致激光雷达点云精确定位困难。现有方法依赖实时GNSS与惯性测量单元(IMU)数据,需预先校准且假设信号稳定,但这一假设在密集城区常失效。为此,我们提出一种结构化的后处理地理配准方法,可在无可靠GNSS信息时,将地面激光点云与卫星图像精确对齐。该方法首先使用预训练的Point Transformer分割道路点,进而从点云与卫星图像中提取道路骨架和交叉口;通过对应交叉点进行刚性变换实现全局对齐,并采用径向基函数(RBF)插值进行局部非刚性优化;最后利用航天雷达地形测绘任务(SRTM)数据修正高程偏差。在KITTI基准和新采集的西澳大利亚珀斯数据集上验证,该方法在KITTI上实现0.69米的平均平面误差,较原始标注减少50%的全局偏移;在珀斯数据集上,相对于刚性对齐,平面误差降低57.4%,高程相关性提升30.5%(KITTI)与55.8%(Perth)。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate geo-registration of LiDAR point clouds remains a significant challenge in urban environments where Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals are denied or degraded. Existing methods typically rely on real-time GNSS and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) data, which require pre-calibration and assume stable signals. However, this assumption often fails in dense cities, resulting in localization errors. To address this, we propose a structured post-hoc geo-registration method that accurately aligns LiDAR point clouds with satellite images. The proposed approach targets point cloud datasets where reliable GNSS information is unavailable or degraded, enabling city-scale geo-registration as a post-processing solution. Our method uses a pre-trained Point Transformer to segment road points, then extracts road skeletons and intersections from the point cloud and the satellite image. Global alignment is achieved through rigid transformation using corresponding intersection points, followed by local non-rigid refinement with radial basis function (RBF) interpolation. Elevation discrepancies are corrected using terrain data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). To evaluate geo-registration accuracy, we measure the absolute distances between the roads extracted from the two modalities. Our method is validated on the KITTI benchmark and a newly collected dataset of Perth, Western Australia. On KITTI, our method achieves a mean planimetric alignment error of 0.69m, corresponding to a 50% reduction in global geo-registration bias compared to the raw KITTI annotations. On Perth dataset, it achieves a mean planimetric error of 2.17m from GNSS values extracted from Google Maps, corresponding to 57.4% improvement over rigid alignment. Elevation correlation factor improved by 30.5% (KITTI) and 55.8% (Perth).

点云配准地理定位卫星图像城市建模

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