融合显式与隐式网格,实现高效增量式激光雷达建图
XGrid-Mapping: Explicit Implicit Hybrid Grid Submaps for Efficient Incremental Neural LiDAR Mapping
- 采用稀疏显式网格提供几何先验,结合密集隐式网格丰富场景表达
- 通过子地图分块与VDB结构降低计算负载,支持大规模实时增量建图
- 引入蒸馏对齐策略消除子地图间不连续,适合自动驾驶环境建模
大规模增量式建图是构建鲁棒自主系统的基础,支撑导航与决策的持续环境理解。激光雷达因其精度和鲁棒性被广泛用于此任务。近年来,神经激光雷达建图表现优异;然而,多数方法依赖密集隐式表示,未能充分利用几何结构,而现有体素引导方法难以实现实时性能。为此,我们提出XGrid-Mapping,一种结合显式与隐式表示的混合网格框架,实现高效神经激光雷达建图。具体而言,该方法融合稀疏网格(提供几何先验与结构引导)与隐式密集网格(增强场景表征)。通过将VDB结构与子地图组织相结合,显著降低计算开销,支持大规模高效增量建图。为缓解子地图间的不连续问题,引入基于蒸馏的重叠区域对齐策略,由前序子地图监督后续子地图,确保重叠区域一致性。为进一步提升鲁棒性与采样效率,集成动态移除模块。大量实验表明,本方法在保持优异建图质量的同时,突破了体素引导方法的效率瓶颈,优于现有最先进建图方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large-scale incremental mapping is fundamental to the development of robust and reliable autonomous systems, as it underpins incremental environmental understanding with sequential inputs for navigation and decision-making. LiDAR is widely used for this purpose due to its accuracy and robustness. Recently, neural LiDAR mapping has shown impressive performance; however, most approaches rely on dense implicit representations and underutilize geometric structure, while existing voxel-guided methods struggle to achieve real-time performance. To address these challenges, we propose XGrid-Mapping, a hybrid grid framework that jointly exploits explicit and implicit representations for efficient neural LiDAR mapping. Specifically, the strategy combines a sparse grid, providing geometric priors and structural guidance, with an implicit dense grid that enriches scene representation. By coupling the VDB structure with a submap-based organization, the framework reduces computational load and enables efficient incremental mapping on a large scale. To mitigate discontinuities across submaps, we introduce a distillation-based overlap alignment strategy, in which preceding submaps supervise subsequent ones to ensure consistency in overlapping regions. To further enhance robustness and sampling efficiency, we incorporate a dynamic removal module. Extensive experiments show that our approach delivers superior mapping quality while overcoming the efficiency limitations of voxel-guided methods, thereby outperforming existing state-of-the-art mapping methods.
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