Chamelion🦎

Reliable Change Detection for Long-Term LiDAR Mapping in Transient Environments

1KAIST, 2Sookmyung Women's Univ. 3KRAFTON
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2026
Overview

Chamelion is a novel approach for online change detection and long-term 3D map management, leveraging a dual-head network and composition-based augmentation for robust generalization across sensors and environments.

Chamelion is a novel approach for online change detection and long-term 3D map management, leveraging a dual-head network and composition-based augmentation for robust generalization across sensors and environments.

Composition-based Data Augmentation for Single-Session Pseudo-Label Generation

Training change detection requires multi-session data, which is costly and impractical to collect. To address this, we propose a single-session augmentation method that synthetically generates change pseudo-labels using only a single traversal of the environment.

Dual-head Structure for Change Classification and Cross-visibility Confidence Estimation

We introduce a dual-head structure designed to jointly handle change classification and cross-visibility confidence estimation.

xvisibility

The class head predicts whether each point is a change or static, while the confidence head estimates the probability that the point is visible in both the map and scan.

Experimental results

We qualitatively evaluated the generalization performance across various environments.

Interactive Change Detection

Compare the prior map and current scans from Const-1F. The views share the same camera for inspecting low-dynamic (LD) changes.

Prior map and current scan

Sampled for visualization

● Prior map   ● Current scan

Drag to rotate · Scroll or pinch to zoom · Right-drag to pan. Browse 100 scans sampled across the full sequence. The final map change result stays fixed; Cross visibility shows map and scan confidence for the selected frame.