Title
Coarse-To-Fine Planar Regularization For Dense Monocular Depth Estimation
Abstract
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) using the whole image data is an appealing framework to address shortcoming of sparse feature-based methods - in particular frequent failures in textureless environments. Hence, direct methods bypassing the need of feature extraction and matching became recently popular. Many of these methods operate by alternating between pose estimation and computing (semi-) dense depth maps, and are therefore not fully exploiting the advantages of joint optimization with respect to depth and pose. In this work, we propose a framework for monocular SLAM, and its local model in particular, which optimizes simultaneously over depth and pose. In addition to a planarity enforcing smoothness regularizer for the depth we also constrain the complexity of depth map updates, which provides a natural way to avoid poor local minima and reduces unknowns in the optimization. Starting from a holistic objective we develop a method suitable for online and real-time monocular SLAM. We evaluate our method quantitatively in pose and depth on the TUM dataset, and qualitatively on our own video sequences.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-46475-6_29
COMPUTER VISION - ECCV 2016, PT II
Keywords
Field
DocType
SLAM, Monocular odometry, Dense tracking and mapping
Computer vision,Direct methods,Computer science,Pose,Maxima and minima,Feature extraction,Regularization (mathematics),Artificial intelligence,Depth map,Simultaneous localization and mapping,Monocular
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9906
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
22
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stephan Liwicki120.71
Christopher Zach2145784.01
Miksik Ondrej340314.28
Philip H. S. Torr49140636.18