期刊
JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
卷 10, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jmse10040511
关键词
visual SLAM; visual loop closing; convolutional neural network
资金
- ERDF A way of making Europe
- MCIN/AEI [PID2020-115332RB-C33]
This paper presents a new approach to visual Graph-SLAM for underwater robots, focusing on designing a robust VLD algorithm to reduce false loops and improve computational efficiency. The method operates in three steps, utilizing a Neural Network for fast selection of image pairs, a robust image matcher for loop confirmation or rejection, and geometric consistency verification for accepted loops. Results show the validity and suitability of the approach for further field campaigns.
Visual Loop Detection (VLD) is a core component of any Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system, and its goal is to determine if the robot has returned to a previously visited region by comparing images obtained at different time steps. This paper presents a new approach to visual Graph-SLAM for underwater robots that goes one step forward the current techniques. The proposal, which centers its attention on designing a robust VLD algorithm aimed at reducing the amount of false loops that enter into the pose graph optimizer, operates in three steps. In the first step, an easily trainable Neural Network performs a fast selection of image pairs that are likely to close loops. The second step carefully confirms or rejects these candidate loops by means of a robust image matcher. During the third step, all the loops accepted in the second step are subject to a geometric consistency verification process, being rejected those that do not fit with it. The accepted loops are then used to feed a Graph-SLAM algorithm. The advantages of this approach are twofold. First, the robustness in front of wrong loop detection. Second, the computational efficiency since each step operates only on the loops accepted in the previous one. This makes online usage of this VLD algorithm possible. Results of experiments with semi-synthetic data and real data obtained with an autonomous robot in several marine resorts of the Balearic Islands, support the validity and suitability of the approach to be applied in further field campaigns.
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