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ARXIV:2604.01598 · ROBOTICS LOCALIZATION · SUBMITTED 03 APR · 20:50 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2604.01598ROBOTICS LOCALIZATIONSUBMITTED 03 APR · 20:50 UTCFRESHNESS STALETianyi Shang · Zhenyu Li · arXiv
A novel framework for precise robot localization using text descriptions by leveraging hierarchical geometric alignments and outperforming state-of-the-art by 19%.
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Pain A novel framework for precise robot localization using text descriptions by leveraging hierarchical geometric alignments and outperforming state-of-the-art by 19%.
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A novel framework for precise robot localization using text descriptions by leveraging hierarchical geometric alignments and outperforming state-of-the-art by 19%. However, existing methods employ pooled global descriptors for similarity retrieval, which suffer from severe…
Text-to-point-cloud localization enables robots to understand spatial positions through natural language descriptions, which is crucial for human-robot collaboration in applications such as autonomous driving and last-mile delivery. However, existing methods employ pooled global descriptors…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Text-to-point-cloud localization enables robots to understand spatial positions through natural language descriptions, which is crucial for human-robot collaboration in applications such as autonomous driving…
Robotics Localization moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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A novel framework for precise robot localization using text descriptions by leveraging hierarchical geometric alignments and outperforming state-of-the-art by 19%.
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10.48550/arXiv.2604.01598A novel framework for precise robot localization using text descriptions by leveraging hierarchical geometric alignments and outperforming state-of-the-art by 19%.
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Text-to-point-cloud localization enables robots to understand spatial positions through natural language descriptions, which is crucial for human-robot collaboration in applications such as autonomous driving and last-mile delivery. However, existing methods employ pooled global descriptors for similarity retrieval, which suffer from severe information loss and fail to capture discriminative scene structures. To address these issues, we propose SympLoc, a novel coarse-to-fine localization framework with multi-level alignment in the coarse stage. Different from previous methods that rely solely on global descriptors, our coarse stage consists of three complementary alignment levels: 1) Instance-level alignment establishes direct correspondence between individual object instances in point clouds and textual hints through Riemannian self-attention in hyperbolic space; 2) Relation-level alignment explicitly models pairwise spatial relationships between objects using the Information-Symplectic Relation Encoder (ISRE), which reformulates relation features through Fisher-Rao metric and Hamiltonian dynamics for uncertainty-aware geometrically consistent propagation; 3) Global-level alignment synthesizes discriminative global descriptors via the Spectral Manifold Transform (SMT) that extracts structural invariants through graph spectral analysis. This hierarchical alignment strategy progressively captures fine-grained to coarse-grained scene semantics, enabling robust cross-modal retrieval. Extensive experiments on the KITTI360Pose dataset demonstrate that SympLoc achieves a 19% improvement in Top-1 recall@10m compared to existing state-of-the-art approaches.
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A novel framework for precise robot localization using text descriptions by leveraging hierarchical geometric alignments and outperforming state-of-the-art by 19%. However, existing methods employ pooled global descriptors for similarity retrieval, which suffer from severe infor...
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Text-to-point-cloud localization enables robots to understand spatial positions through natural language descriptions, which is crucial for human-robot collaboration in applications such as autonomous driving and last-mile delivery. However, existing methods employ pooled global...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Text-to-point-cloud localization enables robots to understand spatial positions through natural language descriptions, which is crucial for human-robot collaboration in applications such as autonomous dri...
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Robotics Localization moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
existing methods employ pooled global descriptors for similarity retrieval, which suffer from severe information loss and fail to capture discriminative scene structures
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SympLoc achieves a 19% improvement in Top-1 recall@10m compared to existing state-of-the-art approaches
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Instance-level alignment establishes direct correspondence between individual object instances in point clouds and textual hints through Riemannian self-attention in hyperbolic space
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Relation-level alignment explicitly models pairwise spatial relationships between objects using the Information-Symplectic Relation Encoder (ISRE), which reformulates relation features through Fisher-Rao metric and Hamiltonian dynamics
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Global-level alignment synthesizes discriminative global descriptors via the Spectral Manifold Transform (SMT) that extracts structural invariants through graph spectral analysis
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This hierarchical alignment strategy progressively captures fine-grained to coarse-grained scene semantics, enabling robust cross-modal retrieval
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crucial for human-robot collaboration in applications such as autonomous driving and last-mile delivery
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we propose SympLoc, a novel coarse-to-fine localization framework with multi-level alignment in the coarse stage
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