LAPSE:2023.4783
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LAPSE:2023.4783
Contrast Maximization-Based Feature Tracking for Visual Odometry with an Event Camera
Xiang Gao, Hanjun Xue, Xinghua Liu
February 23, 2023
As a new type of vision sensor, the dynamic and active-pixel vision sensor (DAVIS) outputs image intensity and asynchronous event streams in the same pixel array. We present a novel visual odometry algorithm based on the DAVIS in this paper. The Harris detector and the Canny detector are utilized to extract an initialized tracking template from the image sequence. The spatio-temporal window is selected by determining the life cycle of the asynchronous event streams. The alignment on timestamps is achieved by tracking the motion relationship between the template and events within the window. A contrast maximization algorithm is adopted for the estimation of the optical flow. The IMU data are used to calibrate the position of the templates during the update process that is exploited to estimate camera trajectories via the ICP algorithm. In the end, the proposed visual odometry algorithm is evaluated in several public object tracking scenarios and compared with several other algorithms. The tracking results show that our visual odometry algorithm can achieve better accuracy and lower latency tracking trajectory than other methods.
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contrast maximization, event camera, tracking template, visual odometry
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Gao X, Xue H, Liu X. Contrast Maximization-Based Feature Tracking for Visual Odometry with an Event Camera. (2023). LAPSE:2023.4783
Author Affiliations
Gao X: School of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, China
Xue H: School of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, China
Liu X: School of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, China [ORCID]
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Processes
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10
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10
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2081
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2022
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2022-10-14
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2227-9717
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