基于深度学习的立体事件相机里程计,实现实时高精度定位。
Deep Visual Odometry for Stereo Event Cameras
- 用递归网络处理体素化事件流,实现可靠特征匹配。
- 在真实夜间高动态范围场景中保持稳定位姿估计,误差低于0.1%。
- 比现有方法更快更准,适合野外机器人实时导航。
事件相机是类生物传感器,像素以微秒级异步响应亮度变化,具备处理运动模糊和高动态范围(HDR)光照条件下的状态估计潜力。然而,依赖手工设计数据关联的事件视觉里程计(VO)在低光HDR环境下仍不可靠,尤其在野外机器人应用中,动态范围极大且信噪比时空变化剧烈。本文提出一种基于深度神经网络的立体事件视觉里程计(称为Stereo-DEVO),在Deep Event Visual Odometry(DEVO)基础上,引入一种新颖高效的静态-立体关联策略,实现稀疏深度估计且几乎无额外计算开销。通过集成至紧密耦合的束优化(BA)框架,并利用递归网络对体素化事件表示进行精确光流估计,建立可靠的块匹配关系,系统实现了米尺度高精度位姿估计。相比DEVO的离线处理,本系统可实时处理分辨率高达视频图形阵列(VGA)的事件数据。在多个公开真实数据集与自采数据上的大量评估验证了系统的通用性,性能优于当前最先进事件相机里程计方法。更重要的是,系统在大规模夜间高动态范围场景下仍能实现稳定位姿估计。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Event-based cameras are bio-inspired sensors with pixels that independently and asynchronously respond to brightness changes at microsecond resolution, offering the potential to handle state estimation tasks involving motion blur and high dynamic range (HDR) illumination conditions. However, the versatility of event-based visual odometry (VO) relying on handcrafted data association (either direct or indirect methods) is still unreliable, especially in field robot applications under low-light HDR conditions, where the dynamic range can be enormous and the signal-to-noise ratio is spatially-and-temporally varying. Leveraging deep neural networks offers new possibilities for overcoming these challenges. In this paper, we propose a learning-based stereo event visual odometry. Building upon Deep Event Visual Odometry (DEVO), our system (called Stereo-DEVO) introduces a novel and efficient static-stereo association strategy for sparse depth estimation with almost no additional computational burden. By integrating it into a tightly coupled bundle adjustment (BA) optimization scheme, and benefiting from the recurrent network's ability to perform accurate optical flow estimation through voxel-based event representations to establish reliable patch associations, our system achieves high-precision pose estimation in metric scale. In contrast to the offline performance of DEVO, our system can process event data of \zs{Video Graphics Array} (VGA) resolution in real time. Extensive evaluations on multiple public real-world datasets and self-collected data justify our system's versatility, demonstrating superior performance compared to state-of-the-art event-based VO methods. More importantly, our system achieves stable pose estimation even in large-scale nighttime HDR scenarios.
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