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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings Yes
Title Rethinking Trajectory Evaluation for SLAM: a Probabilistic, Continuous-Time Approach
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Authors
  • Zichao Zhang
  • Davide Scaramuzza
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Event Title ICRA19 Workshop on Dataset Generation and Benchmarking of SLAM Algorithms for Robotics and VR/AR
Event Type workshop
Event Location Montreal, Canada
Event Start Date May 20 - 2019
Event End Date May 24 - 2019
Place of Publication IEEE
Publisher arxiv
Abstract Text Despite the existence of different error metrics for trajectory evaluation in SLAM, their theoretical justifications and connections are rarely studied, and few methods handle temporal association properly. In this work, we propose to formulate the trajectory evaluation problem in a probabilistic, continuous-time framework. By modeling the groundtruth as random variables, the concepts of absolute and relative error are generalized to be likelihood. Moreover, the groundtruth is represented as a piecewise Gaussian Process in continuous-time. Within this framework, we are able to establish theoretical connections between relative and absolute error metrics and handle temporal association in a principled manner.
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Official URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.03996
Other Identification Number merlin-id:20294
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