Monocular Event-Inertial Odometry with Adaptive decay-based Time Surface and Polarity-aware Tracking

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Main Authors: Tang, Kai, Lang, Xiaolei, Ma, Yukai, Huang, Yuehao, Li, Laijian, Liu, Yong, Lv, Jiajun
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Published: 2024
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author Tang, Kai
Lang, Xiaolei
Ma, Yukai
Huang, Yuehao
Li, Laijian
Liu, Yong
Lv, Jiajun
author_facet Tang, Kai
Lang, Xiaolei
Ma, Yukai
Huang, Yuehao
Li, Laijian
Liu, Yong
Lv, Jiajun
contents Event cameras have garnered considerable attention due to their advantages over traditional cameras in low power consumption, high dynamic range, and no motion blur. This paper proposes a monocular event-inertial odometry incorporating an adaptive decay kernel-based time surface with polarity-aware tracking. We utilize an adaptive decay-based Time Surface to extract texture information from asynchronous events, which adapts to the dynamic characteristics of the event stream and enhances the representation of environmental textures. However, polarity-weighted time surfaces suffer from event polarity shifts during changes in motion direction. To mitigate its adverse effects on feature tracking, we optimize the feature tracking by incorporating an additional polarity-inverted time surface to enhance the robustness. Comparative analysis with visual-inertial and event-inertial odometry methods shows that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art techniques, with competitive results across various datasets.
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spellingShingle Monocular Event-Inertial Odometry with Adaptive decay-based Time Surface and Polarity-aware Tracking
Tang, Kai
Lang, Xiaolei
Ma, Yukai
Huang, Yuehao
Li, Laijian
Liu, Yong
Lv, Jiajun
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Event cameras have garnered considerable attention due to their advantages over traditional cameras in low power consumption, high dynamic range, and no motion blur. This paper proposes a monocular event-inertial odometry incorporating an adaptive decay kernel-based time surface with polarity-aware tracking. We utilize an adaptive decay-based Time Surface to extract texture information from asynchronous events, which adapts to the dynamic characteristics of the event stream and enhances the representation of environmental textures. However, polarity-weighted time surfaces suffer from event polarity shifts during changes in motion direction. To mitigate its adverse effects on feature tracking, we optimize the feature tracking by incorporating an additional polarity-inverted time surface to enhance the robustness. Comparative analysis with visual-inertial and event-inertial odometry methods shows that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art techniques, with competitive results across various datasets.
title Monocular Event-Inertial Odometry with Adaptive decay-based Time Surface and Polarity-aware Tracking
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13971