Canny-VO: Visual Odometry with RGB-D Cameras Based on Geometric 3-D-2-D Edge Alignment
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2019
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Zhou, Yi
Li, Hongdong
Kneip, Laurent
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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This paper reviews the classical problem of free-form curve registration and applies it to an efficient RGB-D visual odometry system called Canny-VO, as it efficiently tracks all Canny edge features extracted from the images. Two replacements for the distance transformation commonly used in edge registration are proposed: approximate nearest neighbor fields and oriented nearest neighbor fields. 3-D–2-D edge alignment benefits from these alternative formulations in terms of both efficiency and accuracy. It removes the need for the more computationally demanding paradigms of data-to-model registration, bilinear interpolation, and subgradient computation. To ensure robustness of the system in the presence of outliers and sensor noise, the registration is formulated as a maximum a posteriori problem and the resulting weighted least-squares objective is solved by the iteratively reweighted least-squares method. A variety of robust weight functions are investigated and the optimal choice is made based on the statistics of the residual errors. Efficiency is furthermore boosted by an adaptively sampled definition of the nearest neighbor fields. Extensive evaluations on public SLAM benchmark sequences demonstrate state-of-the-art performance and an advantage over classical Euclidean distance fields.
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IEEE Transactions on Robotics
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