3 papers
cs.RO2025
A Coarse to Fine 3D LiDAR Localization with Deep Local Features for Long Term Robot Navigation in Large Environments
Míriam Máximo, Antonio Santo, Arturo Gil +2
The location of a robot is a key aspect in the field of mobile robotics. This problem is particularly complex when the initial pose of the robot is unknown. In order to find a solu…
cs.CV2024
TE-NeXt: A LiDAR-Based 3D Sparse Convolutional Network for Traversability Estimation
Antonio Santo, Juan J. Cabrera, David Valiente +2
This paper presents TE-NeXt, a novel and efficient architecture for Traversability Estimation (TE) from sparse LiDAR point clouds based on a residual convolution block. TE-NeXt blo…
cs.CV2024
MinkUNeXt: Point Cloud-based Large-scale Place Recognition using 3D Sparse Convolutions
J. J. Cabrera, A. Santo, A. Gil +2
This paper presents MinkUNeXt, an effective and efficient architecture for place-recognition from point clouds entirely based on the new 3D MinkNeXt Block, a residual block compose…