Title
SD-DefSLAM: Semi-Direct Monocular SLAM for Deformable and Intracorporeal Scenes
Abstract
Conventional SLAM techniques strongly rely on scene rigidity to solve data association, ignoring dynamic parts of the scene. In this work we present Semi-Direct DefSLAM (SD-DefSLAM), a novel monocular delirmable SLAM method able to map highly deforming environments, built on top of DefSLAM [1]. To robustly solve data association in challenging deforming scenes, SD-DefSLAM combines direct and indirect methods: an enhanced illumination-invariant Lucas-Kanade tracker for data association, geometric Bundle Adjustment for pose and deformable map estimation, and bag-of-words based on feature descriptors for camera relocalization. Dynamic objects are detected and segmented-out using a CNN trained for the specific application domain. We thoroughly evaluate our system in two public datasets. The mandala dalaset is a SLAM benchmark with increasingly aggressive deformations. The Hamlyn dataset contains intracorporeal sequences that pose serious real-life challenges beyond deformation like weak texture, specular reflections, surgical tools and occlusions. Our results show that SD-DefSLAM outperforms DefSLAM in point tracking, reconstruction accuracy and scale drift thanks to the improvement in all the data association steps, being the first system able to robustly perform SLAM inside the human body.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9561512
2021 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (ICRA 2021)
DocType
Volume
Issue
Conference
2021
1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1050-4729
0
0.34
References 
Authors
7
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Juan J. Gómez Rodríguez1211.56
Lamarca Jose240.79
Javier Morlana300.34
Juan Domingo43319258.54
Montiel José M. M.5241.65