Title
A mapping and localization framework for scalable appearance-based navigation
Abstract
This paper presents a vision framework which enables feature-oriented appearance-based navigation in large outdoor environments containing other moving objects. The framework is based on a hybrid topological-geometrical environment representation, constructed from a learning sequence acquired during a robot motion under human control. At the higher topological layer, the representation contains a graph of key-images such that incident nodes share many natural landmarks. The lower geometrical layer enables to predict the projections of the mapped landmarks onto the current image, in order to be able to start (or resume) their tracking on the fly. The desired navigation functionality is achieved without requiring global geometrical consistency of the underlying environment representation. The framework has been experimentally validated in demanding and cluttered outdoor environments, under different imaging conditions. The experiments have been performed on many long sequences acquired from moving cars, as well as in large-scale real-time navigation experiments relying exclusively on a single perspective vision sensor. The obtained results confirm the viability of the proposed hybrid approach and indicate interesting directions for future work.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1016/j.cviu.2008.08.005
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Keywords
Field
DocType
localization framework,underlying environment representation,appearance-based navigation,global geometrical consistency,structure from motion,point transfer,large outdoor environment,higher topological layer,scalable appearance-based navigation,visual tracking,large-scale real-time navigation experiment,hybrid topological-geometrical environment representation,navigation functionality,vision framework,cluttered outdoor environment,visual tracking point transfer appearance-based navigation structure from motion,real time
Structure from motion,Computer vision,Human control,Graph,Appearance based,On the fly,Eye tracking,Artificial intelligence,Mobile robot navigation,Mathematics,Scalability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
113
2
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
31
1.13
47
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Siniša Šegvić116219.46
Anthony Remazeilles21679.55
Albert Diosi31798.83
francois chaumette44374311.50