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| Type | Conference or Workshop Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Published in Proceedings | Yes |
| Title | Voxel Map for Visual SLAM |
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| Presentation Type | paper |
| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| ISBN | 978-1-7281-7395-5 |
| Page Range | 4181 - 4187 |
| Event Title | 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) |
| Event Type | conference |
| Event Location | Paris, France |
| Event Start Date | July 1 - 2020 |
| Event End Date | October 1 - 2020 |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Abstract Text | In modern visual SLAM systems, it is a standard practice to retrieve potential candidate map points from overlapping keyframes for further feature matching or direct tracking. In this work, we argue that keyframes are not the optimal choice for this task, due to several inherent limitations, such as weak geometric reasoning and poor scalability. We propose a voxel-map representation to efficiently retrieve map points for visual SLAM. In particular, we organize the map points in a regular voxel grid. Visible points from a camera pose are queried by sampling the camera frustum in a raycasting manner, which can be done in constant time using an efficient voxel hashing method. Compared with keyframes, the retrieved points using our method are geometrically guaranteed to fall in the camera field-of-view, and occluded points can be identified and removed to a certain extend. This method also naturally scales up to large scenes and complicated multi-camera configurations. Experimental results show that our voxel map representation is as efficient as a keyframe map with 5 keyframes and provides significantly higher localization accuracy (average 46% improvement in RMSE) on the EuRoC dataset. The proposed voxel-map representation is a general approach to a fundamental functionality in visual SLAM and widely applicable. |
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| Digital Object Identifier | 10.1109/icra40945.2020.9197357 |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:20309 |
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