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Removert

What is removert?

  • Static map construction in the wild.
  • A dynamic points removing tool by constructing a static map
  • The name is from the abbreviation of our title "Remove-then-revert" (IROS 2020): paper, video

What can we do using removert?

  • We can easily construct and save a static map.
  • We can easily parse dynamic points

Example

Preparations

  • Step 1: Get a set of LiDAR scans and corresponding poses by running any open source LiDAR odometry or SLAM algorithm (e.g., odometry_saver)
  • Step 2: Make a pair of a scan's point cloud and a corresponding pose using associated timestamps. We note that you need to save a scan as a binary format as KITTI and the pose file as a single text file where SE(3) poses are written line-by-line (12 numbers for a single line), which is also the equivalent format as KITTI odometry's ground truth pose txt file.

Requirements

  • Based on C++17
  • ROS (and Eigen, PCL, OpenMP): the all examples in this readme are tested under Ubuntu 18.04 and ROS Melodic.
  • FYI: We uses ROS's parameter parser for the convenience, despite no topic flows within our system (our repository currently runs at offline on the pre-prepared scans saved on a HDD or a SSD). But the speed is fast (over 10Hz for a single removing) and plan to extend to real-time slam integration in future.

How to use

  • First, compile the source
$ mkdir -p ~/catkin/removert_ws/src
$ cd ~/catkin/removert_ws/src
$ git clone https://github.com/irapkaist/removert.git
$ cd ..
$ catkin_make
$ source devel/setup.bash
  • Before to start the launch file, you need to replace data paths in the config/params.yaml file. More details about it, you can refer the above tutorial video (KITTI 09)

  • Then, you can start the Removert

$ roslaunch removert run.launch
  • (Optional) we supports Matlab tools to visulaize comparasions of original/cleaned maps (see tools/matlab).

Contact

Cite Removert

@INPROCEEDINGS { gskim-2020-iros,
    AUTHOR = { Giseop Kim and Ayoung Kim },
    TITLE = { Remove, then Revert: Static Point cloud Map Construction using Multiresolution Range Images },
    BOOKTITLE = { Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) },
    YEAR = { 2020 },
    MONTH = { Oct. },
    ADDRESS = { Las Vegas },
    NOTE = { Accepted. To appear. },
}

License

Creative Commons License
This work is supported by Naver Labs Corporation and by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF). This work is also licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

TODO (in order)

Near future

  • Full sequence cleaned-scan saver by automatically iterating batches (because using 50-100 scans for a single batch is recommended for computation speed)
  • Adding revert steps (I think certainly removing dynamic points is generally more worthy for many applications, so reverting step is omitted currently)
  • Automatically parse dynamic segments from the dynamic points in a scan (e.g., using DBSCAN on dynamic points in a scan)
  • Exmaples from MulRan dataset (for showing removert's availability for various LiDAR configurations)
  • (scan, pose) pair saver using SC-LeGO-LOAM, which includes a loop closing that can make a globally consistent map.
  • Examples from the arbitrary datasets using the above input data pair saver.
  • Providing a SemanticKITTI (as a truth) evaluation tool (i.e., calculating the number of points of TP, FP, TN, and FN)
  • (Not certain now) Changing all floats to double

Future

  • Real-time LiDAR SLAM integration for better odometry robust to dynamic objects in urban sites (e.g., with LIO-SAM in the Riverside sequences of MulRan dataset)
  • Multi-session (i.e., inter-session) change detection example
  • Defining and measuring the quality of a static map
  • Using the above measure, deciding when removing can be stopped with which resolution (generally 1-3 removings are empirically enough but for highly crowded environments such as urban roads)

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