Event-based Stereo Visual Odometry

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15548v2
• Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 14:52:21 GMT
• Title: Event-based Stereo Visual Odometry
• Authors: Yi Zhou, Guillermo Gallego, Shaojie Shen
• Abstract summary: We present a solution to the problem of visual odometry from the data acquired by a stereo event-based camera rig. We seek to maximize thetemporal consistency of stereo event-based data while using a simple and efficient representation.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Event-based cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors whose pixels work independently from each other and respond asynchronously to brightness changes, with microsecond resolution. Their advantages make it possible to tackle challenging scenarios in robotics, such as high-speed and high dynamic range scenes. We present a solution to the problem of visual odometry from the data acquired by a stereo event-based camera rig. Our system follows a parallel tracking-and-mapping approach, where novel solutions to each subproblem (3D reconstruction and camera pose estimation) are developed with two objectives in mind: being principled and efficient, for real-time operation with commodity hardware. To this end, we seek to maximize the spatio-temporal consistency of stereo event-based data while using a simple and efficient representation. Specifically, the mapping module builds a semi-dense 3D map of the scene by fusing depth estimates from multiple local viewpoints (obtained by spatio-temporal consistency) in a probabilistic fashion. The tracking module recovers the pose of the stereo rig by solving a registration problem that naturally arises due to the chosen map and event data representation. Experiments on publicly available datasets and on our own recordings demonstrate the versatility of the proposed method in natural scenes with general 6-DoF motion. The system successfully leverages the advantages of event-based cameras to perform visual odometry in challenging illumination conditions, such as low-light and high dynamic range, while running in real-time on a standard CPU. We release the software and dataset under an open source licence to foster research in the emerging topic of event-based SLAM.

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