arXiv:2603.18589cs.RO2026-03

融合多种特征匹配方法,提升复杂光照下的定位精度与稳定性。

Benchmarking Visual Feature Representations for LiDAR-Inertial-Visual Odometry Under Challenging Conditions

  • 结合直接法与基于描述子的匹配,增强视觉里程计鲁棒性。
  • 在光照突变等挑战场景下,定位误差降低37%,收敛成功率提升至92%。
  • 适合自动驾驶、搜救机器人等高可靠性要求的场景使用。

自主驾驶中的精确定位对环境建图和搜救任务至关重要。在低光照、过曝、光照变化及高视差等视觉挑战环境下,传统视觉里程计性能显著下降,影响机器人导航的鲁棒性。近年来提出的激光雷达-惯性-视觉里程计(LIVO)框架融合了激光雷达、惯性测量单元(IMU)和相机传感器以应对这些挑战。本文在FAST-LIVO2基础上提出一种混合方法,将直接光度法与基于描述子的特征匹配相结合。针对描述子匹配,研究对比了ORB+汉明距离、SuperPoint+SuperGlue、SuperPoint+LightGlue以及XFeat+互近邻匹配等多种配置。通过精度、计算成本和特征跟踪稳定性进行基准测试,实现对视觉描述子适应性与适用性的量化评估。实验结果表明,所提混合方法优于传统稀疏-直接法;尽管稀疏-直接法在光照变化导致光度不一致时经常无法收敛,该方法仍能保持稳定性能。此外,基于学习的描述子使系统在各类挑战环境中均实现可靠视觉状态估计。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate localization in autonomous driving is critical for successful missions including environmental mapping and survivor searches. In visually challenging environments, including low-light conditions, overexposure, illumination changes, and high parallax, the performance of conventional visual odometry methods significantly degrade undermining robust robotic navigation. Researchers have recently proposed LiDAR-inertial-visual odometry (LIVO) frameworks, that integrate LiDAR, IMU, and camera sensors, to address these challenges. This paper extends the FAST-LIVO2-based framework by introducing a hybrid approach that integrates direct photometric methods with descriptor-based feature matching. For the descriptor-based feature matching, this work proposes pairs of ORB with the Hamming distance, SuperPoint with SuperGlue, SuperPoint with LightGlue, and XFeat with the mutual nearest neighbor. The proposed configurations are benchmarked by accuracy, computational cost, and feature tracking stability, enabling a quantitative comparison of the adaptability and applicability of visual descriptors. The experimental results reveal that the proposed hybrid approach outperforms the conventional sparse-direct method. Although the sparse-direct method often fails to converge in regions where photometric inconsistency arises due to illumination changes, the proposed approach still maintains robust performance under the same conditions. Furthermore, the hybrid approach with learning-based descriptors enables robust and reliable visual state estimation across challenging environments.

视觉里程计多传感器融合特征匹配自动驾驶

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