In this paper we present an extension of Direct Sparse Odometry (DSO) to a monocular visual SLAM system with loop closure detection and pose-graph optimization (LDSO). As a direct technique, DSO can utilize any image pixel with sufficient intensity gradient, which makes it robust even in featureless areas. LDSO retains this robustness, while at the same time ensuring repeatability of some of these points by favoring corner features in the tracking frontend. This repeatability allows to reliably detect loop closure candidates with a conventional feature-based bag-of-words (BoW) approach. Loop closure candidates are verified geometrically and Sim(3) relative pose constraints are estimated by jointly minimizing 2D and 3D geometric error terms. These constraints are fused with a co-visibility graph of relative poses extracted from DSO's sliding window optimization. Our evaluation on publicly available datasets demonstrates that the modified point selection strategy retains the tracking accuracy and robustness, and the integrated pose-graph optimization significantly reduces the accumulated rotation-, translation- and scale-drift, resulting in an overall performance comparable to state-of-the-art feature-based systems, even without global bundle adjustment.
Accurate and Robust Scale Recovery for Monocular Visual Odometry Based on Plane Geometry
College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University(东北大学信息科学与工程学院);Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学电子工程系)
Multi-LVI-SAM: A Robust LiDAR-Visual-Inertial Odometry for Multiple Fisheye Cameras
Department of Computer Science and Technology, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University(电子信息工程学院计算机科学与技术系);MOE Key Lab of Embedded System and Service Computing, Tongji University(教育部嵌入式系统与服务计算重点实验室);Institute of Intelligent Vehicles, Tongji University(智能车辆研究院)
MambaVO: Deep Visual Odometry Based on Sequential Matching Refinement and Training Smoothing
School of Information, Renmin University of China(中国人民大学信息学院);Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University(北京航空航天大学人工智能研究院);Hangzhou International Innovation Institute, Beihang University(北京航空航天大学杭州国际创新研究院);The Institute of AI (TeleAI), China Telecom(中国电信人工智能研究院(TeleAI));School of Artificial Intelligence, Optics and Electronics (iOPEN), Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU)(西北工业大学人工智能与光学电子学院(iOPEN))
Loop-box: Multi-Agent Direct SLAM Triggered by Single Loop Closure for Large-Scale Mapping
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(香港科技大学);University of California, San Diego(加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校);ATG Robotics(ATG机器人技术公司);University of Bristol(布里斯托大学);Bristol Robotics Laboratory(布里斯托机器人实验室)
REGRACE: A Robust and Efficient Graph-based Re-localization Algorithm using Consistency Evaluation
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab, University of Technology of Nuremberg (UTN)(人工智能与机器人实验室,图恩技术大学(UTN));CSIRO Robotics, DATA61, and Queensland University of Technology (QUT)(CSIRO机器人,DATA61,昆士兰理工大学(QUT));Mobile Robotics Lab, Technical University of Munich (TUM)(移动机器人实验室,慕尼黑技术大学(TUM));Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI)(慕尼黑机器人与机器智能研究所(MIRMI));Mobile Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich(移动机器人实验室,苏黎世联邦理工学院)
提出 REGRACE 重定位算法,利用 LiDAR 子地图、旋转不变对象特征、图神经网络、词袋检索与几何一致性验证,在达到 SOTA 识别配准效果的同时速度提升两倍。