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ICRA
2010
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
A constricted bundle adjustment parameterization for relative scale estimation in visual odometry
— In this paper we address the problem of visual motion estimation (visual odometry) from a single vehicle mounted camera. One of the basic issues of visual odometry is relative ...
Friedrich Fraundorfer, Davide Scaramuzza, Marc Pol...
JFR
2007
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13 years 11 months ago
Two years of Visual Odometry on the Mars Exploration Rovers
NASA’s two Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) have successfully demonstrated a robotic Visual Odometry capability on another world for the first time. This provides each rover with ...
Mark W. Maimone, Yang Cheng, Larry Matthies
AR
2006
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13 years 11 months ago
Slip-compensated path following for planetary exploration rovers
A system that enables continuous slip compensation for a Mars rover has been designed, implemented, and field-tested. This system is composed of several components that allow the ...
Daniel M. Helmick, Stergios I. Roumeliotis, Yang C...
AR
2010
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13 years 11 months ago
Development of a Visual Odometry System for a Wheeled Robot on Loose Soil using a Telecentric Camera
In this paper, the development of a three-dimensional (3-D) odometry system for wheeled robots on loose soil in an application of planetary exploration is described. When a wheele...
Keiji Nagatani, Ayako Ikeda, Genya Ishigami, Kazuy...
ICCV
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Ten-fold Improvement in Visual Odometry Using Landmark Matching
Our goal is to create a visual odometry system for robots and wearable systems such that localization accuracies of centimeters can be obtained for hundreds of meters of distance ...
Zhiwei Zhu, Taragay Oskiper, Supun Samarasekera, R...
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Real-time global localization with a pre-built visual landmark database
In this paper, we study how to build a vision-based system for global localization with accuracies within 10cm. for robots and humans operating both indoors and outdoors over wide...
Zhiwei Zhu, Taragay Oskiper, Supun Samarasekera, R...
AMS
2005
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
Visual Odometry Using Sparse Bundle Adjustment on an Autonomous Outdoor Vehicle
Visual Odometry is the process of estimating the movement of a (stereo) camera through its environment by matching point features between pairs of consecutive image frames. No prio...
Niko Sünderhauf, Kurt Konolige, Simon Lacroix...
ACCV
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Visual Odometry for Non-overlapping Views Using Second-Order Cone Programming
Abstract. We present a solution for motion estimation for a set of cameras which are firmly mounted on a head unit and do not have overlapping views in each image. This problem re...
Jae-Hak Kim, Richard I. Hartley, Jan-Michael Frahm...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Fast and robust photomapping with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
— A fast and robust method for visual odometry based on the Fourier-Mellin Invariant (FMI) descriptor is presented. It extends previous FMI based approaches in two ways. First, a...
Heikow Bülow, Andreas Birk
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Flow separation for fast and robust stereo odometry
— Separating sparse flow provides fast and robust stereo visual odometry that deals with nearly degenerate situations that often arise in practical applications. We make use of ...
Michael Kaess, Kai Ni, Frank Dellaert