Underwater visual SLAM with loop-closure using image-to-image link recovery

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This study develops an underwater visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm using a monocular vision as a major measurement sensor, focusing in particular on the loop-closure problem. Although most vision-based loop-closure approaches have been implemented by feature-based pairwise image matching, matching underwater images is generally a challenging task due to the limited number of feature correspondences or relatively small overlapping regions between the compared images. The lack of loop-closing events caused by these challenges can degrade the navigation and mapping performance of visual SLAM. For robust visual SLAM, a loop-closure algorithm that can recover image-to-image matching links is presented. The proposed loop-closure algorithm is more resilient to failures of pairwise matching and thus can maximize the use of image-to-image links, thereby improving the estimation performance in the context of visual SLAM. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, a hover-capable unmanned underwater vehicle was used for in-water experiments, and the proposed algorithm was also evaluated through a series of comparative results drawn from an experimental dataset.
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Issue Date
2015-05-21
Language
English
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MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2015 - Genova

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10.1109/OCEANS-Genova.2015.7271448
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http://hdl.handle.net/10203/216644
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ME-Conference Papers(학술회의논문)
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