Towards Localizing Structural Elements: Merging Geometrical Detection with Semantic Verification in RGB-D Data

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Main Authors: Tourani, Ali, Ejaz, Saad, Bavle, Hriday, Sanchez-Lopez, Jose Luis, Voos, Holger
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author Tourani, Ali
Ejaz, Saad
Bavle, Hriday
Sanchez-Lopez, Jose Luis
Voos, Holger
author_facet Tourani, Ali
Ejaz, Saad
Bavle, Hriday
Sanchez-Lopez, Jose Luis
Voos, Holger
contents RGB-D cameras supply rich and dense visual and spatial information for various robotics tasks such as scene understanding, map reconstruction, and localization. Integrating depth and visual information can aid robots in localization and element mapping, advancing applications like 3D scene graph generation and Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM). While point cloud data containing such information is primarily used for enhanced scene understanding, exploiting their potential to capture and represent rich semantic information has yet to be adequately targeted. This paper presents a real-time pipeline for localizing building components, including wall and ground surfaces, by integrating geometric calculations for pure 3D plane detection followed by validating their semantic category using point cloud data from RGB-D cameras. It has a parallel multi-thread architecture to precisely estimate poses and equations of all the planes detected in the environment, filters the ones forming the map structure using a panoptic segmentation validation, and keeps only the validated building components. Incorporating the proposed method into a VSLAM framework confirmed that constraining the map with the detected environment-driven semantic elements can improve scene understanding and map reconstruction accuracy. It can also ensure (re-)association of these detected components into a unified 3D scene graph, bridging the gap between geometric accuracy and semantic understanding. Additionally, the pipeline allows for the detection of potential higher-level structural entities, such as rooms, by identifying the relationships between building components based on their layout.
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spellingShingle Towards Localizing Structural Elements: Merging Geometrical Detection with Semantic Verification in RGB-D Data
Tourani, Ali
Ejaz, Saad
Bavle, Hriday
Sanchez-Lopez, Jose Luis
Voos, Holger
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
I.4.9; I.2.9; I.2.10
RGB-D cameras supply rich and dense visual and spatial information for various robotics tasks such as scene understanding, map reconstruction, and localization. Integrating depth and visual information can aid robots in localization and element mapping, advancing applications like 3D scene graph generation and Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM). While point cloud data containing such information is primarily used for enhanced scene understanding, exploiting their potential to capture and represent rich semantic information has yet to be adequately targeted. This paper presents a real-time pipeline for localizing building components, including wall and ground surfaces, by integrating geometric calculations for pure 3D plane detection followed by validating their semantic category using point cloud data from RGB-D cameras. It has a parallel multi-thread architecture to precisely estimate poses and equations of all the planes detected in the environment, filters the ones forming the map structure using a panoptic segmentation validation, and keeps only the validated building components. Incorporating the proposed method into a VSLAM framework confirmed that constraining the map with the detected environment-driven semantic elements can improve scene understanding and map reconstruction accuracy. It can also ensure (re-)association of these detected components into a unified 3D scene graph, bridging the gap between geometric accuracy and semantic understanding. Additionally, the pipeline allows for the detection of potential higher-level structural entities, such as rooms, by identifying the relationships between building components based on their layout.
title Towards Localizing Structural Elements: Merging Geometrical Detection with Semantic Verification in RGB-D Data
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
I.4.9; I.2.9; I.2.10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06625