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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | SVO: Semi-Direct Visual Odometry for Monocular and Multi-Camera Systems |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | IEEE Transactions on Robotics |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 1552-3098 |
| Page Range | 1 - 18 |
| Date | 2016 |
| Abstract Text | Direct methods for Visual Odometry (VO) have gained popularity due to their capability to exploit information from all intensity gradients in the image. However, low computational speed as well as missing guarantees for optimality and consistency are limiting factors of direct methods, where established feature-based methods instead succeed at. Based on these considerations, we propose a Semi-direct VO (SVO) that uses direct methods to track and triangulate pixels that are characterized by high image gradients but relies on proven feature-based methods for joint optimization of structure and motion. Together with a robust probabilistic depth estimation algorithm, this enables us to efficiently track pixels lying on weak corners and edges in environments with little or high-frequency texture. We further demonstrate that the algorithm can easily be extended to multiple cameras, to track edges, to include motion priors, and to enable the use of very large field of view cameras, such as fisheye and catadioptric ones. Experimental evaluation on benchmark datasets shows that the algorithm is significantly faster than the state of the art while achieving highly competitive accuracy. |
| Free access at | Official URL |
| Official URL | http://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/docs/TRO16_Forster-SVO.pdf |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:14067 |
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