Motion estimation and tracking of multiple objects in sector scan sonar using optical flow

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.M. Lane
Keyword(s):  
Motion Estimation ◽  
Optical Flow ◽  
Multiple Objects

scholarly journals ClusterSLAM: A SLAM backend for simultaneous rigid body clustering and motion estimation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiahui Huang ◽  
Sheng Yang ◽  
Zishuo Zhao ◽  
Yu-Kun Lai ◽  
Shi-Min Hu
Keyword(s):  
Motion Estimation ◽  
Rigid Body ◽  
Iterative Scheme ◽  
Dynamic Environments ◽  
Rigid Bodies ◽  
Factor Graph ◽  
Agglomerative Clustering ◽  
Multiple Objects ◽  
Graph Optimization ◽  
Dynamic Objects

AbstractWe present a practical backend for stereo visual SLAM which can simultaneously discover individual rigid bodies and compute their motions in dynamic environments. While recent factor graph based state optimization algorithms have shown their ability to robustly solve SLAM problems by treating dynamic objects as outliers, their dynamic motions are rarely considered. In this paper, we exploit the consensus of 3D motions for landmarks extracted from the same rigid body for clustering, and to identify static and dynamic objects in a unified manner. Specifically, our algorithm builds a noise-aware motion affinity matrix from landmarks, and uses agglomerative clustering to distinguish rigid bodies. Using decoupled factor graph optimization to revise their shapes and trajectories, we obtain an iterative scheme to update both cluster assignments and motion estimation reciprocally. Evaluations on both synthetic scenes and KITTI demonstrate the capability of our approach, and further experiments considering online efficiency also show the effectiveness of our method for simultaneously tracking ego-motion and multiple objects.

scholarly journals Ego-Motion Estimation Using Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks through Optical Flow Learning

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 222
Author(s):  
Baigan Zhao ◽  
Yingping Huang ◽  
Hongjian Wei ◽  
Xing Hu
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Motion Estimation ◽  
Optical Flow ◽  
Feature Representation ◽  
Sequential Learning ◽  
Navigation Systems ◽  
Motion State ◽  
Training Schemes ◽  
Sequential Images

Visual odometry (VO) refers to incremental estimation of the motion state of an agent (e.g., vehicle and robot) by using image information, and is a key component of modern localization and navigation systems. Addressing the monocular VO problem, this paper presents a novel end-to-end network for estimation of camera ego-motion. The network learns the latent subspace of optical flow (OF) and models sequential dynamics so that the motion estimation is constrained by the relations between sequential images. We compute the OF field of consecutive images and extract the latent OF representation in a self-encoding manner. A Recurrent Neural Network is then followed to examine the OF changes, i.e., to conduct sequential learning. The extracted sequential OF subspace is used to compute the regression of the 6-dimensional pose vector. We derive three models with different network structures and different training schemes: LS-CNN-VO, LS-AE-VO, and LS-RCNN-VO. Particularly, we separately train the encoder in an unsupervised manner. By this means, we avoid non-convergence during the training of the whole network and allow more generalized and effective feature representation. Substantial experiments have been conducted on KITTI and Malaga datasets, and the results demonstrate that our LS-RCNN-VO outperforms the existing learning-based VO approaches.

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