Ranking-aware Continual Learning for LiDAR Place Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07198v1
• Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 03:06:29 GMT
• Title: Ranking-aware Continual Learning for LiDAR Place Recognition
• Authors: Xufei Wang, Gengxuan Tian, Junqiao Zhao, Siyue Tao, Qiwen Gu, Qiankun Yu, Tiantian Feng,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a continual learning framework for LPR via Knowledge Distillation and Fusion (KDF) to alleviate forgetting.<n>Inspired by the ranking process of place recognition retrieval, we present a ranking-aware knowledge distillation loss.<n>We also introduce a knowledge fusion module to integrate the knowledge of old and new models for LiDAR place recognition.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Place recognition plays a significant role in SLAM, robot navigation, and autonomous driving applications. Benefiting from deep learning, the performance of LiDAR place recognition (LPR) has been greatly improved. However, many existing learning-based LPR methods suffer from catastrophic forgetting, which severely harms the performance of LPR on previously trained places after training on a new environment. In this paper, we introduce a continual learning framework for LPR via Knowledge Distillation and Fusion (KDF) to alleviate forgetting. Inspired by the ranking process of place recognition retrieval, we present a ranking-aware knowledge distillation loss that encourages the network to preserve the high-level place recognition knowledge. We also introduce a knowledge fusion module to integrate the knowledge of old and new models for LiDAR place recognition. Our extensive experiments demonstrate that KDF can be applied to different networks to overcome catastrophic forgetting, surpassing the state-of-the-art methods in terms of mean Recall@1 and forgetting score.

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