SiLVR: Scalable Lidar-Visual Reconstruction with Neural Radiance Fields for Robotic Inspection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06877v1
• Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:31:25 GMT
• Title: SiLVR: Scalable Lidar-Visual Reconstruction with Neural Radiance Fields for Robotic Inspection
• Authors: Yifu Tao, Yash Bhalgat, Lanke Frank Tarimo Fu, Matias Mattamala, Nived Chebrolu, Maurice Fallon
• Abstract summary: We present a neural-field-based large-scale reconstruction system that fuses lidar and vision data to generate high-quality reconstructions. We exploit the trajectory from a real-time lidar SLAM system to bootstrap a Structure-from-Motion (SfM) procedure. We use submapping to scale the system to large-scale environments captured over long trajectories.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We present a neural-field-based large-scale reconstruction system that fuses lidar and vision data to generate high-quality reconstructions that are geometrically accurate and capture photo-realistic textures. This system adapts the state-of-the-art neural radiance field (NeRF) representation to also incorporate lidar data which adds strong geometric constraints on the depth and surface normals. We exploit the trajectory from a real-time lidar SLAM system to bootstrap a Structure-from-Motion (SfM) procedure to both significantly reduce the computation time and to provide metric scale which is crucial for lidar depth loss. We use submapping to scale the system to large-scale environments captured over long trajectories. We demonstrate the reconstruction system with data from a multi-camera, lidar sensor suite onboard a legged robot, hand-held while scanning building scenes for 600 metres, and onboard an aerial robot surveying a multi-storey mock disaster site-building. Website: https://ori-drs.github.io/projects/silvr/

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