Monocular visual odometry based on hybrid parameterization




Sherif A. S. Mohamed, Mohammad-Hashem Haghbayan, Jukka Heikkonen, Hannu Tenhunen, Juha Plosila

Wolfgang Osten, Dmitry P. Nikolaev

International Conference on Machine Vision

PublisherSPIE

2020

International Conference on Machine Vision

Twelfth International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV 2019)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Proceedings of SPIE : the International Society for Optical Engineering

11433

6

0277-786X

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1117/12.2556718

https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/46944484



Visual odometry (VO) is one of the most challenging techniques in computer vision for autonomous vehicle/vessels. In VO, the camera pose that also represents the robot pose in ego-motion is estimated analyzing the features and pixels extracted from the camera images. Different VO techniques mainly provide different trade-offs among the resources that are being considered for odometry, such as camera resolution, computation/communication capacity, power/energy consumption, and accuracy. In this paper, a hybrid technique is proposed for camera pose estimation by combining odometry based on triangulation using the long-term period of direct-based odometry and the short-term period of inverse depth mapping. Experimental results based on the EuRoC data set shows that the proposed technique significantly outperforms the traditional direct-based pose estimation method for Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV), keeping its potential negative effect on performance negligible.


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