ColoRadar: The direct 3D millimeter wave radar dataset

Millimeter wave radar is becoming increasingly popular as a sensing modality for robotic mapping and state estimation. However, there are very few publicly available datasets that include dense, high-resolution millimeter wave radar scans and there are none focused on 3D odometry and mapping. In this paper we present a solution to that problem. The ColoRadar dataset includes 3 different forms of dense, high-resolution radar data from 2 FMCW radar sensors as well as 3D lidar, IMU, and highly accurate groundtruth for the sensor rig’s pose over approximately 2 hours of data collection in highly diverse 3D environments.

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