UpDown-SC: Gravity-Canonicalized Dual-Envelope Scan Context for Indoor LiDAR Place Recognition
Read the original on arXiv Computer Vision →UpDown‑SC is a training‑free polar descriptor for indoor LiDAR place recognition that first canonicalizes gravity and then represents two complementary surfaces: the upper envelope of lower/middle structures and the lower envelope of overhead structures. By estimating a physical split from a cell‑balanced map height distribution and using a mask‑aware, non‑uniform two‑channel distance, it retains discriminative lower‑level evidence while limiting sensitivity to cross‑session variation. Experiments on repeated indoor sessions, mounting‑height changes, mixed outdoor‑to‑indoor trajectories, and an outdoor transfer sequence demonstrate more reliable first‑choice retrieval and significant gains over conventional Scan Context, while maintaining a lightweight CPU front end and supporting metric prior‑map localization.
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