arXiv:2503.12527cs.CV2025-03被引 3

用惯性先验网络直接从原始数据推算IMU偏差,提升视觉惯性里程计鲁棒性。

A Plug-and-Play Learning-based IMU Bias Factor for Robust Visual-Inertial Odometry

  • 仅用原始IMU数据通过滑动窗口直接估计偏差,避免视觉失效时误差累积。
  • 在三个数据集上验证,定位精度显著提升,尤其在视觉丢失场景下表现更稳。
  • 提出无监督训练方法生成序列级均值偏差用于训练,开源共享利于社区使用。

低成本惯性测量单元(IMU)的偏差准确估计是保持视觉惯性里程计(VIO)鲁棒性的关键,尤其在视觉追踪失败的挑战区域。此时,因视觉特征不足或错误,传统VIO的偏差估计会严重偏离真实值,影响定位精度与系统稳定性。为此,本文提出一种即插即用模块——惯性先验网络(IPNet),通过隐式捕捉特定平台的运动特性来推断IMU偏差先验。核心思想源于不同平台具有独特运动模式,而低精度IMU积分存在随时间发散的误差。本工作首先仅利用原始IMU数据,通过滑动窗口直接推断偏差先验,摆脱对融合视觉特征的递归估计依赖,有效防止复杂环境下的误差传播。此外,为解决多数视觉惯性数据集缺乏真实偏差标签的问题,进一步设计迭代方法计算每序列的平均偏差用于网络训练,并公开发布以促进研究。框架在两个公开数据集和一个自采数据集上独立训练与评估,实验表明该方法显著提升定位精度与鲁棒性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate and reliable estimation of biases of low-cost Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) is a key factor to maintain the resilience of Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO), particularly when visual tracking fails in challenging areas. In such cases, bias estimates from the VIO can deviate significantly from the real values because of the insufficient or erroneous vision features, compromising both localization accuracy and system stability. To address this challenge, we propose a novel plug-and-play module featuring the Inertial Prior Network (IPNet), which infers an IMU bias prior by implicitly capturing the motion characteristics of specific platforms. The core idea is inspired intuitively by the observation that different platforms exhibit distinctive motion patterns, while the integration of low-cost IMU measurements suffers from unbounded error that quickly accumulates over time. Therefore, these specific motion patterns can be exploited to infer the underlying IMU bias. In this work, we first directly infer the biases prior only using the raw IMU data using a sliding window approach, eliminating the dependency on recursive bias estimation combining visual features, thus effectively preventing error propagation in challenging areas. Moreover, to compensate for the lack of ground-truth bias in most visual-inertial datasets, we further introduce an iterative method to compute the mean per-sequence IMU bias for network training and release it to benefit society. The framework is trained and evaluated separately on two public datasets and a self-collected dataset. Extensive experiments show that our method significantly improves localization precision and robustness.

视觉惯性IMU偏差即插即用运动模式

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