Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 38, Issue 6, 0615001(2018)

Optimization on Visual Odometry under Weak Texture Environment

Yi Zhang1,2, Zhiyu Xiang1,2、*, Shuya Chen1,2, and Shuxia Gu1,2
Author Affiliations
  • 1 Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Information Processing, Communication and Networking, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China
  • 2 College of Information Science & Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China;
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    Framework of system
    Flowchart of optimization algorithm
    Example of stereo matching in KITTI01 sequence. (a) Features in left image; (b) features in right image
    Example of image segmentation in KITTI01 sequence
    Feature plane extracted in an image block
    Example of feature re-matching
    Binocular stereoscopic imaging model
    Scenes of KITTI 01 sequence
    Comparison of the number of local stereo match points in left and right images (a) before and (b) after optimization
    Number of stereo matching points in KITTI 01 sequence
    Comparison of error of KITTI 01 sequence
    Accuracy comparison of different algorithms in KITTI 11 sequence
    (a) Electric hunting cart; (b) BumbleBee2 binocular camera
    Part of the experimental scene. (a) Weak texture environment; (b) moving pedestrians and vehicles; (c) shadow, exposure and other light changes
    Results of actual scene experiment
    • Table 1. Precision comparison of different algorithms in KITTI benchmark

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      Table 1. Precision comparison of different algorithms in KITTI benchmark

      MethodAverage translation error /%Average rotation error /[(°)/m]
      SOFT20.660.0014
      LG_SLAM0.820.0020
      RotRocc+0.830.0026
      FPVO1.100.0023
      ORB_SLAM21.150.0027
      S-PTAM1.190.0025
    • Table 2. System runtime statistics

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      Table 2. System runtime statistics

      Operationt /s
      Feature extraction and matching0.0390
      Optimized by local feature0.0052
      Feature tracking and pose optimization0.0380
      Total0.0820
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    Paper Information

    Category: Machine Vision

    Received: Oct. 11, 2017

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jul. 9, 2018

    The Author Email: Xiang Zhiyu (xiangzy@zju.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS201838.0615001

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