用1比特神经网络实现高精度激光雷达定位,大幅降低计算开销。
Learning 1-Bit LiDAR-based Localization with Auxiliary Objective

- 基于信息瓶颈原理重构二值化训练,保留关键姿态信息。
- 引入辅助目标函数,显著缓解二值化带来的信息损失。
- 首次在大规模室外数据集上实现1比特定位新纪录,适合边缘部署。
6-DoF激光雷达定位是自动驾驶系统在大规模室外环境中的基础能力。现有深度学习方法虽性能优异,但计算开销大,难以满足车载资源受限场景的需求。二值神经网络(BNNs)虽具低功耗优势,但1比特压缩导致严重信息丢失和性能下降。本文提出首个面向6-DoF激光雷达定位的二值化框架BiLoc,从信息瓶颈视角重设计训练过程,旨在保留最小必要表征以支撑姿态估计,同时抑制冗余变化。通过引入自适应调节信息保留的辅助目标,有效补偿了二值编码器的表达能力不足与梯度不匹配问题。在多个大规模室外激光雷达数据集上的实验表明,BiLoc在二值化模型中达到新的最优性能,验证了其在边缘计算场景下的可行性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
6-DoF LiDAR-based localization is a fundamental capability for autonomous systems operating in large-scale outdoor environments. Many deep-learning-based localization methods have achieved promising performance so far. However, as one of the always-on modules competing for limited on-board computational resources, the localization module is expected to consume only a small portion of the overall compute budget. Most existing learning-based methods are still too heavy for this purpose. In contrast, binary neural networks (BNNs) offer an appealing solution, but the 1-bit compression causes severe information loss and performance drop. In this paper, we address this challenge by proposing Binarized LiDAR-based Localization (BiLoc), the first binary neural network framework for 6-DoF LiDAR localization. Specifically, we reinterpret the training of BNNs from the perspective of the information-bottleneck principle, aiming at retaining minimal yet sufficient representations for pose estimation while suppressing redundant variations. And we introduce an auxiliary objective that adaptively regulates information retention in the binary encoder, effectively mitigating the information loss caused by binarization. This auxiliary objective provides additional optimization signals that compensate for the limited representational capacity and the gradient mismatch inherent in BNNs. Extensive experiments on large-scale outdoor LiDAR datasets demonstrate that BiLoc establishes a new state of the art for LiDAR localization with BNNs.
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