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Leveraging Prior ALS Point Clouds for Enhanced LiDAR-Inertial Odometry in Low-Cost Mobile Mapping Systems

2025· article· en· W4411232395 on OpenAlexaff
Yandi Yang, Jianping Li, Mengchi Ai, Xin Zhao, Yizhe Zhang, Naser El‐Sheimy

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicRemote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOdometryLidarPoint cloudComputer scienceArtificial intelligenceInertial measurement unitComputer visionMobile mappingRemote sensingPoint (geometry)Mobile robotGeographyRobot

Abstract

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LIO(LiDAR-Inertial-Odometry) performs poorly in highly-urbanized scenarios. This paper proposes an enhanced LIO method by utilizing existing ALS point clouds to improve the accuracy and robustness of localization for low-cost MMS (Mobile Mapping System). ALS and MLS point clouds are preprocessed separately. Then the LIO with multiple scan-to-map matchings is maintained. The framework’s performance was validated through experiments on both large-scale vehicle-mounted and hand-held datasets. The average APE (Absolute Pose Error) is only 1 meter even with a trajectory over 4 km and IMU collection time over 50 minutes. To the best of our knowledge, this marks the first successful attempt at achieving real-time and accurate LIO for low-cost MMS combined with ALS data in large-scale outdoor environments.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.013

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.259
Teacher spread0.248 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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