Accurate and Robust Scale Recovery for Monocular Visual Odometry Based on Plane Geometry

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05995v1
• Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 07:21:24 GMT
• Title: Accurate and Robust Scale Recovery for Monocular Visual Odometry Based on Plane Geometry
• Authors: Rui Tian, Yunzhou Zhang, Delong Zhu, Shiwen Liang, Sonya Coleman, Dermot Kerr
• Abstract summary: We develop a lightweight scale recovery framework leveraging an accurate and robust estimation of the ground plane. Experiments on the KITTI dataset show that the proposed framework can achieve state-of-theart accuracy in terms of translation errors. Due to the light-weight design, our framework also demonstrates a high frequency of 20Hz on the dataset.
• Score: 7.169216737580712
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Scale ambiguity is a fundamental problem in monocular visual odometry. Typical solutions include loop closure detection and environment information mining. For applications like self-driving cars, loop closure is not always available, hence mining prior knowledge from the environment becomes a more promising approach. In this paper, with the assumption of a constant height of the camera above the ground, we develop a light-weight scale recovery framework leveraging an accurate and robust estimation of the ground plane. The framework includes a ground point extraction algorithm for selecting high-quality points on the ground plane, and a ground point aggregation algorithm for joining the extracted ground points in a local sliding window. Based on the aggregated data, the scale is finally recovered by solving a least-squares problem using a RANSAC-based optimizer. Sufficient data and robust optimizer enable a highly accurate scale recovery. Experiments on the KITTI dataset show that the proposed framework can achieve state-of-the-art accuracy in terms of translation errors, while maintaining competitive performance on the rotation error. Due to the light-weight design, our framework also demonstrates a high frequency of 20Hz on the dataset.

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