Abstract
Monocular visual-inertial measurement unit (IMU) odometry has been widely used in various intelligent vehicles. As a popular technique, detector-descriptor-based visual-IMU odometry is effective and efficient due to the fact that local descriptors are robust against occlusions, background clutter, and abrupt content changes. However, to our knowledge, there is not a comprehensive and comparative evaluation study on the performance of different combinations of detectors and descriptors recently developed. In order to bridge this gap, we conduct such a comparative study in a unified framework. In particular, six typical routes with different lengths, shapes, and road scenes are selected from the well-known KITTI dataset. We first evaluate the performance of different combinations of salient point detectors and local descriptors using the six routes. Then, we tune the parameters of the best detector or descriptor obtained for each route, to further augment the results. This paper provides not only comprehensive benchmarks for assessing various algorithms but also instructive guidelines and insights for developing detectors and descriptors to handle different road scenes.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2471-2484 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 6 |
Early online date | 06 Jun 2019 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 29 May 2020 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Manuscript received December 19, 2017; revised October 28, 2018 and February 9, 2019; accepted May 17, 2019. Date of publication June 6, 2019; date of current version May 29, 2020. The work of X. Dong was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under Grant EP/L022125/1. The work of J. Dong was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grant 60702014, Grant 61271405, and Grant 61401413, and in part by the Ph.D. Program Foundation, Ministry of Education, China, under Grant 20120132110018. The work of H. Zhou was supported in part by the U.K. EPSRC under Grant EP/N011074/1, in part by the Royal Society-Newton Advanced Fellowship under Grant NA160342, and in part by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie under Grant 720325. The Associate Editor for this paper was Q. Ji. (Corresponding author: Xinghui Dong.) X. Dong is with the School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT 2612, Australia (e-mail: xingshuai.dong@student.adfa.edu.au).
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Keywords
- Evaluation
- local descriptors
- monocular visual-IMU odometry
- navigation
- odometry
- salient point detectors
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Automotive Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Computer Science Applications