Monocular Object and Plane SLAM in Structured Environments
This addresses the problem of robust and semantic mapping for robotics and AR/VR applications, though it is an incremental improvement over existing SLAM approaches.
The paper tackles monocular SLAM in structured environments by incorporating high-level object and plane landmarks, resulting in denser, more compact maps and improved camera localization accuracy compared to state-of-the-art methods, especially without loop closure.
In this paper, we present a monocular Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithm using high-level object and plane landmarks. The built map is denser, more compact and semantic meaningful compared to feature point based SLAM. We first propose a high order graphical model to jointly infer the 3D object and layout planes from single images considering occlusions and semantic constraints. The extracted objects and planes are further optimized with camera poses in a unified SLAM framework. Objects and planes can provide more semantic constraints such as Manhattan plane and object supporting relationships compared to points. Experiments on various public and collected datasets including ICL NUIM and TUM Mono show that our algorithm can improve camera localization accuracy compared to state-of-the-art SLAM especially when there is no loop closure, and also generate dense maps robustly in many structured environments.