对比真实与合成干扰下单目SLAM的鲁棒性,发现学习型追踪器易产生持续漂移。
Failure or Drift? Evaluating Monocular SLAM under Synthetic and Real-World Corruptions
- 区分跟踪失败与持续漂移,更精细评估系统鲁棒性
- 学习型追踪器将崩溃转为严重漂移,稳定性下降
- 高保真合成干扰才能准确反映真实场景排序
视觉SLAM通常在干净轨迹上评估,但实际部署失败多由恶劣天气、光照变化、模糊和传感器伪影导致。可控干扰可隔离这些因素,但其有效性取决于能否复现真实条件下的工程结论。本文评估经典特征基系统与两个学习型追踪器在图像空间、几何感知及复合干扰下的表现,并与4Seasons数据集中的真实恶劣条件对比。评价不依赖单一轨迹误差,而是分离显式跟踪失败与持续漂移。结果表明,学习型追踪器将灾难性失效替换为持续且有时严重的漂移。更重要的是,学习系统的性能排序随干扰物理保真度变化:结构化雨雾模拟能保留真实场景排序,而简单光照扰动则不能。代码已开源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Visual SLAM is commonly evaluated on clean trajectories, although deployment failures are often caused by adverse weather, illumination, blur, and sensor artifacts. Controlled corruptions are attractive because they isolate such factors, but a synthetic stress test is useful only when it leads to the same engineering conclusion as the condition it is intended to approximate. This work examines that question for monocular SLAM. We evaluate a classical feature-based system and two learned trackers under image-space, geometry-aware, and compound corruptions, and compare their behavior with adverse conditions from 4Seasons. Rather than reducing robustness to a single trajectory error, the evaluation separates explicit tracking failure from drift accumulated by methods that remain active. The results show that learned trackers largely replace catastrophic loss with sustained, and sometimes severe, drift. More importantly, the apparent ordering of the learned systems changes with the physical fidelity of the corruption: structured rain and fog proxies preserve the real-world ordering, whereas a simple illumination proxy does not. Code is available at: https://github.com/abhaythomas/master_thesis_vslamlab_robustness.
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