Title
Semantic loop closure detection based on graph matching in multi-objects scenes
Abstract
Robust loop-closure detection is essential for visual SLAM. Traditional methods often focus on the geometric and visual features in most scenes but ignore the semantic information provided by objects. Based on this consideration, we present a strategy that models the visual scene as semantic sub-graph by only preserving the semantic and geometric information from object detection. To align two sub-graphs efficiently, we use a sparse Kuhn–Munkres algorithm to speed up the search for correspondence among nodes. The shape similarity and the Euclidean distance between objects in the 3-D space are leveraged unitedly to measure the image similarity through graph matching. Furthermore, the proposed approach has been analyzed and compared with the state-of-the-art algorithms at several datasets as well as two indoor real scenes, where the results indicate that our semantic graph-based representation without extracting visual features is feasible for loop-closure detection at potential and competitive precision.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.jvcir.2021.103072
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Loop closure detection,Object detection,Semantic,Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM),Graph matching
Journal
76
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1047-3203
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cao Qin121.39
Yunzhou Zhang221930.98
Yingda Liu300.34
Guanghao Lv400.34