NIDAR: NIR-Guided Intrinsic Decomposition for Scalable Scene-Agnostic LiDAR Intensity Reconstruction
This study addresses the absence of intensity data in LiDAR simulation and the high computational cost and poor reusability of conventional per-scene optimization. We propose a feedforward LiDAR intensity generation framework that integrates pseudo-near-infrared conversion with hierarchical intrinsic decomposition, alongside geometry-aware modulation and source-domain distribution calibration, to synthesize dense intensity maps directly from RGB and geometric inputs. Crucially, the method achieves cross-scene generalization using fixed weights, eliminating the need for target-scene labels or gradient-based fitting. Experiments demonstrate that our framework surpasses existing baselines in accuracy and fidelity on the Waymo and nuScenes datasets. Furthermore, its practical utility has been validated through downstream SLAM tasks implemented within the Unreal Engine 5 environment.