AI RESEARCH
MPTF-Net: Multi-view Pyramid Transformer Fusion Network for LiDAR-based Place Recognition
arXiv CS.CV
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ArXi:2604.04513v1 Announce Type: new LiDAR-based place recognition (LPR) is essential for global localization and loop-closure detection in large-scale SLAM systems. Existing methods typically construct global descriptors from Range Images or BEV representations for matching. BEV is widely adopted due to its explicit 2D spatial layout encoding and efficient retrieval. However, conventional BEV representations rely on simple statistical aggregation, which fails to capture fine-grained geometric structures, leading to performance degradation in complex or repetitive environments.