Loop Closure in a Line-based SLAM

LoopSmart: Smart Visual SLAM Through Surface Loop Closure

We present a visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) framework of closing surface loops. It combines both sparse feature matching and dense surface alignment. Sparse feature matching is used for visual odometry and globally camera pose fine-tuning when dense loops are detected, while dense surface alignment is the way of closing large loops and solving surface mismatching problem. T...

Robust Selective Stereo SLAM without Loop Closure and Bundle Adjustment

This paper presents a novel stereo SLAM framework, where a robust loop chain matching scheme for tracking keypoints is combined with an effective frame selection strategy. The proposed approach, referred to as selective SLAM (SSLAM), relies on the observation that the error in the pose estimation propagates from the uncertainty of the three-dimensional points. This is higher for distant points,...

Fast Line Description for Line-based SLAM

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a technique to simultaneously perform mapping of environments and localization of a camera in real-time. Most existing monocular vision based SLAM techniques use point features as landmarks. However, images of artificial environments with little texture often contain many line segments, whereas few point features can be localized in such a scene. ...

Robust Relocalization Based on Active Loop Closure for Real-Time Monocular SLAM

Human-in-the-Loop SLAM

Building large-scale, globally consistent maps is a challenging problem, made more difficult in environments with limited access, sparse features, or when using data collected by novice users. For such scenarios, where state-of-the-art mapping algorithms produce globally inconsistent maps, we introduce a systematic approach to incorporating sparse human corrections, which we term Human-in-the-L...