Real-time 3D reconstruction and 6-DoF tracking with an event camera
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Kim, H
Leutenegger, S
Davison, AJ
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
We propose a method which can perform real-time 3D reconstruction
from a single hand-held event camera with no additional sensing,
and works in unstructured scenes of which it has no prior knowledge.
It is based on three decoupled probabilistic filters, each estimating 6-DoF
camera motion, scene logarithmic (log) intensity gradient and scene inverse
depth relative to a keyframe, and we build a real-time graph of
these to track and model over an extended local workspace. We also
upgrade the gradient estimate for each keyframe into an intensity image,
allowing us to recover a real-time video-like intensity sequence with
spatial and temporal super-resolution from the low bit-rate input event
stream. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first algorithm provably
able to track a general 6D motion along with reconstruction of arbitrary
structure including its intensity and the reconstruction of grayscale video
that exclusively relies on event camera data.
from a single hand-held event camera with no additional sensing,
and works in unstructured scenes of which it has no prior knowledge.
It is based on three decoupled probabilistic filters, each estimating 6-DoF
camera motion, scene logarithmic (log) intensity gradient and scene inverse
depth relative to a keyframe, and we build a real-time graph of
these to track and model over an extended local workspace. We also
upgrade the gradient estimate for each keyframe into an intensity image,
allowing us to recover a real-time video-like intensity sequence with
spatial and temporal super-resolution from the low bit-rate input event
stream. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first algorithm provably
able to track a general 6D motion along with reconstruction of arbitrary
structure including its intensity and the reconstruction of grayscale video
that exclusively relies on event camera data.
Date Issued
2016-09-17
Date Acceptance
2016-08-01
Citation
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2016, 9910, pp.349-364
ISBN
9783319464657
ISSN
0302-9743
Publisher
Springer
Start Page
349
End Page
364
Journal / Book Title
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume
9910
Source
ECCV 2016-European Conference on Computer Vision
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Imaging Science & Photographic Technology
Computer Science
6-DoF tracking
3D reconstruction
Intensity reconstruction
Visual odometry
SLAM
Event-based camera
VISION SENSOR
08 Information and Computing Sciences
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2016-10-08
Finish Date
2016-10-16
Coverage Spatial
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
OA Location
https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ajd/Publications/kim_etal_eccv2016.pdf
Date Publish Online
2016-09-17