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DXPR: Depth-Based Vision-LiDAR Cross-Modal Place Recognition Using Vision Foundation Models

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 8, 2026 · UTC

We present DXPR, a depth-based cross-modal place recognition (CMPR) framework that uses vision foundation models (VFMs) to match monocular camera queries against a LiDAR map without modality-specific encoders. This enables robots and autonomous vehicles to robustly localize using only cameras within pre-built LiDAR maps, even under severe seasonal, weather, and illumination changes. The key idea is to convert both camera images and LiDAR scans into a unified depth image representation so that a single VFM backbone with an aggregation head can learn modality-invariant global descriptors. To mak

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