Title
Inertial-Only Optimization for Visual-Inertial Initialization
Abstract
We formulate for the first time visual-inertial initialization as an optimal estimation problem, in the sense of maximum-a-posteriori (MAP) estimation. This allows us to properly take into account IMU measurement uncertainty, which was neglected in previous methods that either solved sets of algebraic equations, or minimized ad-hoc cost functions using least squares. Our exhaustive initialization tests on EuRoC dataset show that our proposal largely outperforms the best methods in the literature, being able to initialize in less than 4 seconds in almost any point of the trajectory, with a scale error of 5.3% on average. This initialization has been integrated into ORB-SLAM Visual-Inertial boosting its robustness and efficiency while maintaining its excellent accuracy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9197334
2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
EuRoC dataset show,time visual-inertial initialization,optimal estimation problem,maximum-a-posteriori estimation,algebraic equations,ad-hoc cost functions,ORB-SLAM visual-inertial boosting,inertial-only optimization,IMU measurement uncertainty,MAP estimation,least squares
Conference
2020
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
1
1050-4729
978-1-7281-7396-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.43
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Carlos Campos1385.14
Montiel José M. M.2241.65
Juan Domingo33319258.54