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Place Recognition in Forests with Urquhart Tessellations

23 Sep 2020arXiv:2010.03026archive 2025-07-28

Guilherme V. Nardari, Avraham Cohen, Steven W. Chen, Xu Liu, Vaibhav Arcot, Roseli A. F. Romero, Vijay Kumar

In this letter, we present a novel descriptor based on Urquhart tessellations derived from the position of trees in a forest. We propose a framework that uses these descriptors to detect previously seen observations and landmark correspondences, even with partial overlap and noise. We run loop closure detection experiments in simulation and real-world data map-merging from different flights of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in a pine tree forest and show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in accuracy and robustness.

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