Title
Terrain adaptive detector selection for visual odometry in natural scenes.
Abstract
Pose estimation is one of the important tasks for mobile robots exploring in outdoor environments. Recently, visual odometry has received a lot of attention since its localization is accurate even with low-cost sensors. Furthermore, the technique is not affected by wheel slips, and it can be performed without external infrastructures and preliminary maps. While existing techniques successfully provide good localization of outdoor vehicles, possible failures are not yet fully examined in untextured terrains where feature tracking occasionally fails. This paper proposes an approach to detect interest points from a wide variety of terrains by adaptively selecting algorithms. Experiments show that the approach provides robust and fast interest point detection even in untextured natural scenes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1080/01691864.2013.843789
ADVANCED ROBOTICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
visual odometry,interest point detectors,terrain classification,outdoor environment
Computer vision,Visual odometry,Interest point detection,Terrain,Odometry,Pose,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Detector,Mobile robot,Feature tracking
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
27
18
0169-1864
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
20
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kyohei Otsu173.51
Masatsugu Otsuki2177.18
Genya Ishigami317725.67
Takashi Kubota43616.92