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LF-GICP: Parameter-Free Degeneracy-Aware LiDAR Odometry via a Voxel-Normal Localizability Field
arXiv:2608.19522v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scan-to-map LiDAR odometry drifts unboundedly along the unobservable axes of geometrically degenerate environments like tunnels and corridors, and exi
arXiv:2608.19522v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scan-to-map LiDAR odometry drifts unboundedly along the unobservable axes of geometrically degenerate environments like tunnels and corridors, and existing degeneracy handling requires environment-specific parameter tuning. This paper presents a parameter-free approach. We show that in voxelized GICP the Gauss--Newton (GN) Hessian masks translational degeneracy, because covariance regularization keeps the translation block artificially well-conditioned. We bypass this with a regularization-free voxel-normal localizability field and two of its statistics: a normalized fraction f_0 detecting directional anisotropy, and an absolute per-voxel mass lambda_0 distinguishing information absence (tunnels) from dilution (dense open scenes). A temporal-median gate combines both to trigger Fisher-information correspondence weighting. Calibrated once by fixed rules on two short sequences and then frozen, LF-GICP achieves the lowest KITTI relative translation error (0.865%) under an identical evaluation protocol against re-run baselines, outperforms them on GEODE tunnels and MulRan, leads the HeLiPR mean, and generalizes across four sensor types without re-tuning. We further demonstrate empirically that straight, uniform tunnels remain unobservable along their axis for LiDAR-only registration.
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Source: arXiv cs.CV | 2026-08-21