将事件相机视觉里程计输出为稀疏点云,实现几何结构可视化
Extending Deep Event Visual Odometry with Sparse Point-Cloud Export

- 基于DEVO框架提取内部3D结构,转换为显式点云
- 在BOARD SLOW数据集上5cm阈值下精度高,局部一致性好
- 适合需要几何输出的实时导航与重建任务
事件相机因其低延迟、高时间分辨率和高动态范围,特别适合高速运动和极端光照条件下的视觉里程计。深度事件视觉里程计(DEVO)通过稀疏特征块追踪、学习选择、递归对应优化和可微束调整,实现了单目仅事件里程计的优异性能。本文在不修改核心里程计算法的前提下,扩展了DEVO的稀疏点云导出功能。该方法利用DEVO已估计的内部3D结构,将其转化为显式的点云表示,便于可视化与后续处理。同时,构建了完整的数据导出、格式转换与点云清理工作流。实验表明,在BOARD SLOW序列上,导出的稀疏点云在5厘米阈值下具有高精度,局部与EMVS重建一致,但存在密度低、完整性不足及对累积里程计噪声敏感等局限。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Event cameras are well suited for visual odometry under high-speed motion and challenging lighting conditions due to their low latency, high temporal resolution, and high dynamic range. Deep Event Visual Odometry (DEVO) demonstrated that monocular event-only odometry can achieve strong performance by combining sparse patch tracking, learned patch selection, recurrent correspondence refinement, and differentiable bundle adjustment. In this project, we extend DEVO with a sparse point-cloud export pipeline. Rather than modifying the core odometry formulation, our approach exposes the internal 3D structure already estimated by DEVO and converts it into an explicit point-cloud representation for visualization and further processing. In addition, we implement a practical workflow for data export, format conversion, and point-cloud cleanup. The resulting system preserves the original visual odometry pipeline while enabling sparse geometric scene output. Experiments on the BOARD SLOW sequence show that the exported sparse cloud is locally consistent with EMVS reconstructions, achieving high precision at a 5 cm threshold, while also highlighting the expected limitations in density, completeness, and sensitivity to accumulated odometry noise.
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