Event-Based Visual Odometry on Non-Holonomic Ground Vehicles
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| author | Xu, Wanting Zhang, Si'ao Cui, Li Peng, Xin Kneip, Laurent |
| author_facet | Xu, Wanting Zhang, Si'ao Cui, Li Peng, Xin Kneip, Laurent |
| contents | Despite the promise of superior performance under challenging conditions, event-based motion estimation remains a hard problem owing to the difficulty of extracting and tracking stable features from event streams. In order to robustify the estimation, it is generally believed that fusion with other sensors is a requirement. In this work, we demonstrate reliable, purely event-based visual odometry on planar ground vehicles by employing the constrained non-holonomic motion model of Ackermann steering platforms. We extend single feature n-linearities for regular frame-based cameras to the case of quasi time-continuous event-tracks, and achieve a polynomial form via variable degree Taylor expansions. Robust averaging over multiple event tracks is simply achieved via histogram voting. As demonstrated on both simulated and real data, our algorithm achieves accurate and robust estimates of the vehicle's instantaneous rotational velocity, and thus results that are comparable to the delta rotations obtained by frame-based sensors under normal conditions. We furthermore significantly outperform the more traditional alternatives in challenging illumination scenarios. The code is available at \url{https://github.com/gowanting/NHEVO}. |
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| spellingShingle | Event-Based Visual Odometry on Non-Holonomic Ground Vehicles Xu, Wanting Zhang, Si'ao Cui, Li Peng, Xin Kneip, Laurent Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Robotics Despite the promise of superior performance under challenging conditions, event-based motion estimation remains a hard problem owing to the difficulty of extracting and tracking stable features from event streams. In order to robustify the estimation, it is generally believed that fusion with other sensors is a requirement. In this work, we demonstrate reliable, purely event-based visual odometry on planar ground vehicles by employing the constrained non-holonomic motion model of Ackermann steering platforms. We extend single feature n-linearities for regular frame-based cameras to the case of quasi time-continuous event-tracks, and achieve a polynomial form via variable degree Taylor expansions. Robust averaging over multiple event tracks is simply achieved via histogram voting. As demonstrated on both simulated and real data, our algorithm achieves accurate and robust estimates of the vehicle's instantaneous rotational velocity, and thus results that are comparable to the delta rotations obtained by frame-based sensors under normal conditions. We furthermore significantly outperform the more traditional alternatives in challenging illumination scenarios. The code is available at \url{https://github.com/gowanting/NHEVO}. |
| title | Event-Based Visual Odometry on Non-Holonomic Ground Vehicles |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09331 |