Increasing the Convergence Domain of RGB-D Direct Registration Methods for Vision-based Localization in Large Scale Environments

Renato Martins (1) , Patrick Rives (1)

1 Lagadic - Visual servoing in robotics, computer vision, and augmented reality

Developing autonomous vehicles capable of dealing with complex and dynamic unstructured environments over large-scale distances, remains a challenging goal. One of the major difficulties in this objective is the precise localization of the vehicle within its environment so that autonomous navigation techniques can be employed. In this context, this paper presents a methodology to map building and to efficient pose computation which is specially adapted for cases of large displacements. Our method uses hybrid robust RGB-D cost functions that have different convergence properties, whilst exploiting the visibility rotation invariance given by panoramic spherical images. The proposed registration model is composed of a RGB and point-to-plane ICP cost in a multi-resolution framework. We close up the paper presenting mapping and localization results in real outdoor scenes.

Domaines: Robotique [cs.RO]

Renato Martins, Patrick Rives. Increasing the Convergence Domain of RGB-D Direct Registration Methods for Vision-based Localization in Large Scale Environments. Workshop on Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles -- IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, ITSC PPNIV, Nov 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ⟨hal-01403961⟩