PhD Forum: GPU-based Visual Odometry for Autonomous Vehicle Applications

International audienceOne popular task under several computer vision applications is camera pose estimation under video sequences. In previous work, several camera pose estimations approaches have been developed and several algorithms have been proposed. Unfortunately, most previous formulations iterative behavior and depend on nonlinear optimizations applied over some geometric constraint and this limits the performance under embedded applications. For real-time embedded applications , another approach, more efficient in terms of computational size and processing speed could be reached via hardware-based solutions, for example GPU-based solutions. In this work, we present a GPU-based solution for the camera pose problem. As early formulation we focused our algorithm for an autonomous vehicle application. Preliminary results are encouraging and show the viability of the proposed approach