DeepFactors: Real-time probabilistic dense monocular SLAM
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Author(s)
Czarnowski, Jan
Laidlow, Tristan
Clark, Ronald
Davison, Andrew J
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The ability to estimate rich geometry and camera motion from monocular imagery is fundamental to future interactive robotics and augmented reality applications. Different approaches have been proposed that vary in scene geometry representation (sparse landmarks, dense maps), the consistency metric used for optimising the multi-view problem, and the use of learned priors. We present a SLAM system that unifies these methods in a probabilistic framework while still maintaining real-time performance. This is achieved through the use of a learned compact depth map representation and reformulating three different types of errors: photometric, reprojection and geometric, which we make use of within standard factor graph software. We evaluate our system on trajectory estimation and depth reconstruction on real-world sequences and present various examples of estimated dense geometry.
Date Issued
2020-01-22
Date Acceptance
2019-12-23
Citation
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2020, 5 (2), pp.721-728
ISSN
2377-3766
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
721
End Page
728
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Volume
5
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Dyson Technology Limited
Dyson Technology Limited
Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8954779
Grant Number
PO 4500501004
PO4500503359
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2020-01-09