Abstract

In this research, we present an end-to-end data-driven pipeline for determining the long-term stability status of objects within a given environment, specifically distinguishing between static and dynamic objects. Understanding object stability is key for mobile robots since longterm stable objects can be exploited as landmarks for long-term localisation. Our pipeline includes a labelling method that utilizes historical data from the environment to generate training data for a neural network. Rather than utilizing discrete labels, we propose the use of point-wise continuous label values, indicating the spatio-temporal stability of individual points, to train a point cloud regression network named S-NET. Our approach is evaluated on point cloud data from two parking lots in the NCLT dataset, and the results show that our proposed solution, outperforms direct training of a classification model for static vs dynamic object classification.