arXiv (Cornell University)
StructVIO : Visual-inertial Odometry with Structural Regularity of Man-made Environments
October 2018 • Danping Zou, Yuanxin Wu, Ling Pei, Haibin Ling, Wenxian Yu
We propose a novel visual-inertial odometry approach that adopts structural regularity in man-made environments. Instead of using Manhattan world assumption, we use Atlanta world model to describe such regularity. An Atlanta world is a world that contains multiple local Manhattan worlds with different heading directions. Each local Manhattan world is detected on-the-fly, and their headings are gradually refined by the state estimator when new observations are coming. With fully exploration of structural lines that…