Title
Monocular visual odometry: Sparse joint optimisation or dense alternation?
Abstract
Real-time monocular SLAM is increasingly mature and entering commercial products. However, there is a divide between two techniques providing similar performance. Despite the rise of ‘dense’ and ‘semi-dense’ methods which use large proportions of the pixels in a video stream to estimate motion and structure via alternating estimation, they have not eradicated feature-based methods which use a significantly smaller amount of image information from keypoints and retain a more rigorous joint estimation framework. Dense methods provide more complete scene information, but in this paper we focus on how the amount of information and different optimisation methods affect the accuracy of local motion estimation (monocular visual odometry). This topic becomes particularly relevant after the recent results from a direct sparse system. We propose a new method for fairly comparing the accuracy of SLAM frontends in a common setting. We suggest computational cost models for an overall comparison which indicates that there is relative parity between the approaches at the settings allowed by current serial processors when evaluated under equal conditions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ICRA.2017.7989599
ICRA
Field
DocType
Volume
Iterative reconstruction,Computer vision,Visual odometry,Visualization,Feature extraction,Pixel,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Motion estimation,Monocular,Simultaneous localization and mapping
Conference
2017
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
1
2
0.37
References 
Authors
24
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lukas Platinsky120.37
Andrew J. Davison26707350.85
Stefan Leutenegger3137961.81