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RoboLoc: A Benchmark Dataset for Point Place Recognition and Localization in Indoor-Outdoor Integrated Environments

Published: December 1, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2512.01194v1

By: Jaejin Jeon , Seonghoon Ryoo , Sang-Duck Lee and more

Potential Business Impact:

Helps robots find their way indoors and outdoors.

Business Areas:
Indoor Positioning Navigation and Mapping

Robust place recognition is essential for reliable localization in robotics, particularly in complex environments with fre- quent indoor-outdoor transitions. However, existing LiDAR-based datasets often focus on outdoor scenarios and lack seamless domain shifts. In this paper, we propose RoboLoc, a benchmark dataset designed for GPS-free place recognition in indoor-outdoor environments with floor transitions. RoboLoc features real-world robot trajectories, diverse elevation profiles, and transitions between structured indoor and unstructured outdoor domains. We benchmark a variety of state-of-the-art models, point-based, voxel-based, and BEV-based architectures, highlighting their generalizability domain shifts. RoboLoc provides a realistic testbed for developing multi-domain localization systems in robotics and autonomous navigation

Country of Origin
🇰🇷 Korea, Republic of

Page Count
8 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Robotics