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- Title
Loop closure detection of visual SLAM based on variational autoencoder.
- Authors
Shibin Song; Fengjie Yu; Xiaojie Jiang; Jie Zhu; Weihao Cheng; Xiao Fang
- Abstract
Loop closure detection is an important module for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Correct detection of loops can reduce the cumulative drift in positioning. Because traditional detection methods rely on handicraft features, false positive detections can occur when the environment changes, resulting in incorrect estimates and an inability to obtain accurate maps. In this research paper, a loop closure detection method based on a variational autoencoder (VAE) is proposed. It is intended to be used as a feature extractor to extract image features through neural networks to replace the handicraft features used in traditional methods. This method extracts a low-dimensional vector as the representation of the image. At the same time, the attention mechanism is added to the network and constraints are added to improve the loss function for better image representation. In the back-end feature matching process, geometric checking is used to filter out the wrongmatching for the false positive problem. Finally, through numerical experiments, the proposed method is demonstrated to have a better precision-recall curve than the traditional method of the bag-of-words model and other deep learning methods and is highly robust to environmental changes. In addition, experiments on datasets from three different scenarios also demonstrate that the method can be applied in real-world scenarios and that it has a good performance.
- Subjects
DEEP learning; IMAGE representation; HANDICRAFT
- Publication
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2024, p1
- ISSN
1662-5218
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fnbot.2023.1301785