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CPA-SLAM: Consistent Plane-Model Alignment for Direct RGB-D SLAM


Lingni Ma, Christian Kerl, Jörg Stückler, Daniel Cremers
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2016
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Planes are predominant features of man-made environments which have been exploited in many mapping approaches. In this paper, we propose a real-time capable RGB-D SLAM system that consistently integrates frame-to-keyframe and frame-to-plane alignment. Our method models the environment with a global plane model and – besides direct image alignment – it uses the planes for tracking and global graph optimization. This way, our method makes use of the dense image information available in keyframes for accurate short-term tracking. At the same time it uses a global model to reduce drift. Both components are integrated consistently in an expectation-maximization framework. In experiments, we demonstrate the benefits our approach and its state-of-the-art accuracy on challenging benchmarks.

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@InProceedings{lingni16icra,
author = "L. Ma and C. Kerl and J. Stueckler and D. Cremers",
title = "CPA-SLAM: Consistent Plane-Model Alignment for Direct RGB-D SLAM",
booktitle = "Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation",
year = "2016",
month = "May",
}




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