Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 61, Issue 18, 1815001(2024)

Monocular VI-SLAM Algorithm Based on Lightweight SuperPoint Network in Low-Light Environment

Xudong Zeng1,2, Shaosheng Fan1,2、*, Shangzhi Xu1,2, and Yuting Zhou1,2
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  • 1School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410111, Hunan, China
  • 2Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Electric Power Robotics, Changsha 410111, Hunan, China
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    Visual inertial simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) technology improves the accuracy of mapping and positioning by considering relevant visual and inertial constraints. However, in low-light environments, the quality of feature point extraction and tracking stability at the visual front-end are poor, which leads to easy loss of tracking and low positioning accuracy in the visual inertial SLAM algorithm. Therefore, we propose a monocular inertial SLAM algorithm called GS-VINS based on the VINS-Mono framework. First, an adaptive image enhancement algorithm is used to enhance the grayscale distribution of low-light images. Then, a GN2_SuperPoint feature point detection network is proposed, and it is combined with a feature point dynamic tracking module to improve the stability of optical flow tracking. Experiments on the EuRoC dataset and in real-world scenarios show that the proposed algorithm improves localization accuracy by 26.57% compared to VINS-Mono and it demonstrates strong robustness to changes in lighting. In the comparison experiment, the success rate of the feature tracking increases by 8%, and the closure error in real-world scenarios is reduced by ~45.73%. The proposed algorithm shows good accuracy and stability in low-light environments and provides a novel solution for visual navigation under low-light conditions, thereby offering valuable engineering applications.

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    Xudong Zeng, Shaosheng Fan, Shangzhi Xu, Yuting Zhou. Monocular VI-SLAM Algorithm Based on Lightweight SuperPoint Network in Low-Light Environment[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2024, 61(18): 1815001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Machine Vision

    Received: Dec. 5, 2023

    Accepted: Jan. 30, 2024

    Published Online: Sep. 14, 2024

    The Author Email: Shaosheng Fan (fss508@163.com)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP232620

    CSTR:32186.14.LOP232620

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