3 research outputs found
Revisiting visual-inertial structure from motion for odometry and SLAM initialization
In this paper, an efficient closed-form solution for the state initialization
in visual-inertial odometry (VIO) and simultaneous localization and mapping
(SLAM) is presented. Unlike the state-of-the-art, we do not derive linear
equations from triangulating pairs of point observations. Instead, we build on
a direct triangulation of the unknown point paired with each of its
observations. We show and validate the high impact of such a simple difference.
The resulting linear system has a simpler structure and the solution through
analytic elimination only requires solving a linear system (or when accelerometer bias is included). In addition, all the
observations of every scene point are jointly related, thereby leading to a
less biased and more robust solution. The proposed formulation attains up to
percent decreased velocity and point reconstruction error compared to the
standard closed-form solver, while it is faster for a -frame set.
Apart from the inherent efficiency, fewer iterations are needed by any further
non-linear refinement thanks to better parameter initialization. In this
context, we provide the analytic Jacobians for a non-linear optimizer that
optionally refines the initial parameters. The superior performance of the
proposed solver is established by quantitative comparisons with the
state-of-the-art solver
Image Stitching and Rectification for Hand-Held Cameras
In this paper, we derive a new differential homography that can account for
the scanline-varying camera poses in Rolling Shutter (RS) cameras, and
demonstrate its application to carry out RS-aware image stitching and
rectification at one stroke. Despite the high complexity of RS geometry, we
focus in this paper on a special yet common input -- two consecutive frames
from a video stream, wherein the inter-frame motion is restricted from being
arbitrarily large. This allows us to adopt simpler differential motion model,
leading to a straightforward and practical minimal solver. To deal with
non-planar scene and camera parallax in stitching, we further propose an
RS-aware spatially-varying homography field in the principle of
As-Projective-As-Possible (APAP). We show superior performance over
state-of-the-art methods both in RS image stitching and rectification,
especially for images captured by hand-held shaking cameras.Comment: ECCV 2020. Project web: https://www.nec-labs.com/~mas/RS-APA
Renormalization for Initialization of Rolling Shutter Visual-Inertial Odometry
In this paper we deal with the initialization problem of a visual-inertial
odometry system with rolling shutter cameras. Initialization is a prerequisite
for using inertial signals and fusing them with visual data. We propose a novel
statistical solution to the initialization problem on visual and inertial data
simultaneously, by casting it into the renormalization scheme of Kanatani. The
renormalization is an optimization scheme which intends to reduce the inherent
statistical bias of common linear systems. We derive and present the necessary
steps and methodology specific to the initialization problem. Extensive
evaluations on ground truth exhibit superior performance and a gain in accuracy
of up to over the originally proposed Least Squares solution. The
renormalization performs similarly to the optimal Maximum Likelihood estimate,
despite arriving at the solution by different means. With this paper we are
adding to the set of Computer Vision problems which can be cast into the
renormalization scheme