Online environment mapping

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8913055
APP PUB NO 20120306847A1
SERIAL NO

13484127

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A system and method are disclosed for online mapping of large-scale environments using a hybrid representation of a metric Euclidean environment map and a topological map. The system includes a scene module, a location recognition module, a local adjustment module and a global adjustment module. The scene flow module is for detecting and tracking video features of the frames of an input video sequence. The scene flow module is also configured to identify multiple keyframes of the input video sequence and add the identified keyframes into an initial environment map of the input video sequence. The location recognition module is for detecting loop closures in the environment map. The local adjustment module enforces local metric properties of the keyframes in the environment map, and the global adjustment module is for optimizing the entire environment map subject to global metric properties of the keyframes in the keyframe pose graph.

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  • ETH ZURICH;HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.;THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Frahm, Jan-Michael Chapel Hill, US 19 846
Lim, Jongwoo Sunnyvale, US 15 413
Pollefeys, Marc Zurich, CH 10 142

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