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arxiv:2603.01475

WildCross: A Cross-Modal Large Scale Benchmark for Place Recognition and Metric Depth Estimation in Natural Environments

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Abstract

WildCross presents a large-scale cross-modal benchmark for robotic place recognition and metric depth estimation in natural environments, featuring over 476K RGB frames with depth and pose annotations.

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Recent years have seen a significant increase in demand for robotic solutions in unstructured natural environments, alongside growing interest in bridging 2D and 3D scene understanding. However, existing robotics datasets are predominantly captured in structured urban environments, making them inadequate for addressing the challenges posed by complex, unstructured natural settings. To address this gap, we propose WildCross, a cross-modal benchmark for place recognition and metric depth estimation in large-scale natural environments. WildCross comprises over 476K sequential RGB frames with semi-dense depth and surface normal annotations, each aligned with accurate 6DoF poses and synchronized dense lidar submaps. We conduct comprehensive experiments on visual, lidar, and cross-modal place recognition, as well as metric depth estimation, demonstrating the value of WildCross as a challenging benchmark for multi-modal robotic perception tasks. We provide access to the code repository and dataset at https://csiro-robotics.github.io/WildCross.

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