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Rad-GS: Radar-Vision Integration for 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM in Outdoor Environments
Xiao, Renxiang, Liu, Wei, Zhang, Yuanfan, Chen, Yushuai, Chen, Jinming, Wang, Zilu, Hu, Liang
We present Rad-GS, a 4D radar-camera SLAM system designed for kilometer-scale outdoor environments, utilizing 3D Gaussian as a differentiable spatial representation. Rad-GS combines the advantages of raw radar point cloud with Doppler information and geometrically enhanced point cloud to guide dynamic object masking in synchronized images, thereby alleviating rendering artifacts and improving localization accuracy. Additionally, unsynchronized image frames are leveraged to globally refine the 3D Gaussian representation, enhancing texture consistency and novel view synthesis fidelity. Furthermore, the global octree structure coupled with a targeted Gaussian primitive management strategy further suppresses noise and significantly reduces memory consumption in large-scale environments. Extensive experiments and ablation studies demonstrate that Rad-GS achieves performance comparable to traditional 3D Gaussian methods based on camera or LiDAR inputs, highlighting the feasibility of robust outdoor mapping using 4D mmWave radar. Real-world reconstruction at kilometer scale validates the potential of Rad-GS for large-scale scene reconstruction.
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Extracting Range-Doppler Information of Moving Targets from Wi-Fi Channel State Information
Sanson, Jessica, Shah, Rahul C., Pinaroc, Maximilian, Frascolla, Valerio
--This paper presents, for the first time, a method to extract both range and Doppler information from commercial Wi-Fi Channel State Information (CSI) using a monostatic (single transceiver) setup. Utilizing the CSI phase in Wi-Fi sensing from a Network Interface Card (NIC) not designed for full-duplex operation is challenging due to (1) Hardware asynchronization, which introduces significant phase errors, and (2) Proximity of transmit (Tx) and receive (Rx) antennas, which creates strong coupling that overwhelms the motion signal of interest. We propose a new signal processing approach that addresses both challenges via three key innovations: Time offset cancellation, Phase alignment correction, and Tx/Rx coupling mitigation. Our method achieves cm-level accuracy in range and Doppler estimation for moving targets, validated using a commercial Intel Wi-Fi AX211 NIC. Our results show successful detection and tracking of moving objects in realistic environments, establishing the feasibility of high-precision sensing using standard Wi-Fi packet communications and off-the-shelf hardware without requiring any modification or specialized full-duplex capabilities.
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Digital Beamforming Enhanced Radar Odometry
Jiang, Jingqi, Xu, Shida, Zhang, Kaicheng, Wei, Jiyuan, Wang, Jingyang, Wang, Sen
Radar has become an essential sensor for autonomous navigation, especially in challenging environments where camera and LiDAR sensors fail. 4D single-chip millimeter-wave radar systems, in particular, have drawn increasing attention thanks to their ability to provide spatial and Doppler information with low hardware cost and power consumption. However, most single-chip radar systems using traditional signal processing, such as Fast Fourier Transform, suffer from limited spatial resolution in radar detection, significantly limiting the performance of radar-based odometry and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems. In this paper, we develop a novel radar signal processing pipeline that integrates spatial domain beamforming techniques, and extend it to 3D Direction of Arrival estimation. Experiments using public datasets are conducted to evaluate and compare the performance of our proposed signal processing pipeline against traditional methodologies. These tests specifically focus on assessing structural precision across diverse scenes and measuring odometry accuracy in different radar odometry systems. This research demonstrates the feasibility of achieving more accurate radar odometry by simply replacing the standard FFT-based processing with the proposed pipeline. The codes are available at GitHub*.
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- Information Technology > Artificial Intelligence > Robots (0.97)
- Information Technology > Data Science > Data Quality > Data Transformation (0.54)
Doppler-aware Odometry from FMCW Scanning Radar
Rennie, Fraser, Williams, David, Newman, Paul, De Martini, Daniele
Abstract-- This work explores Doppler information from a millimetre-Wave (mm-W) Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave (FMCW) scanning radar to make odometry estimation more robust and accurate. Firstly, doppler information is added to the scan masking process to enhance correlative scan matching. Secondly, we train a Neural Network (NN) for regressing forward velocity directly from a single radar scan; we fuse this estimate with the correlative scan matching estimate and show improved robustness to bad estimates caused by challenging environment geometries, e.g. We test our method with a novel custom dataset which is released with this work at https://ori.ox.ac.uk/publications/datasets. Index Terms-- radar odometry, doppler, navigation, dataset As considered deployment scenarios become more challenging, the detection methods and the sensors collecting data about a vehicle's surroundings must Figure 1: Radar scan from the RDD dataset. Currently, the primary sensors used by autonomous two regions extracted show the "zig-zag" pattern caused by vehicles are cameras and LiDAR: while these traditional the alternating modulation patterns - in conjunction with the sensors may perform adequately under favourable conditions, ego-vehicle speed.
Neural Augmentation of Kalman Filter with Hypernetwork for Channel Tracking
Pratik, Kumar, Amjad, Rana Ali, Behboodi, Arash, Soriaga, Joseph B., Welling, Max
We propose Hypernetwork Kalman Filter (HKF) for tracking applications with multiple different dynamics. The HKF combines generalization power of Kalman filters with expressive power of neural networks. Instead of keeping a bank of Kalman filters and choosing one based on approximating the actual dynamics, HKF adapts itself to each dynamics based on the observed sequence. Through extensive experiments on CDL-B channel model, we show that the HKF can be used for tracking the channel over a wide range of Doppler values, matching Kalman filter performance with genie Doppler information. At high Doppler values, it achieves around 2dB gain over genie Kalman filter. The HKF generalizes well to unseen Doppler, SNR values and pilot patterns unlike LSTM, which suffers from severe performance degradation.
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