Vision-based indoor localization via a visual SLAM approach

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Authors

  • Minglei Li
  • F. Rottensteiner

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  • Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)827-833
Number of pages7
JournalInternational Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives
Volume42
Issue number2/W13
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event4th ISPRS Geospatial Week 2019 - Enschede, Netherlands
Duration: 10 Jun 201914 Jun 2019

Abstract

With an increasing interest in indoor location based services, vision-based indoor localization techniques have attracted many attentions from both academia and industry. Inspired by the development of simultaneous localization and mapping technique (SLAM), we present a visual SLAM-based approach to achieve a 6 degrees of freedom (DoF) pose in indoor environment. Firstly, the indoor scene is explored by a keyframe-based global mapping technique, which generates a database from a sequence of images covering the entire scene. After the exploration, a feature vocabulary tree is trained for accelerating feature matching in the image retrieval phase, and the spatial structures obtained from the keyframes are stored. Instead of querying by a single image, a short sequence of images in the query site are used to extract both features and their relative poses, which is a local visual SLAM procedure. The relative poses of query images provide a pose graph-based geometric constraint which is used to assess the validity of image retrieval results. The final positioning result is obtained by selecting the pose of the first correct corresponding image.

Keywords

    Bag-of-visual-word, Geometric constraint, Image retrieval, Indoor localization, SLAM

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Vision-based indoor localization via a visual SLAM approach. / Li, Minglei; Rottensteiner, F.
In: International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives, Vol. 42, No. 2/W13, 2019, p. 827-833.

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Li, M & Rottensteiner, F 2019, 'Vision-based indoor localization via a visual SLAM approach', International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives, vol. 42, no. 2/W13, pp. 827-833. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-827-2019
Li, M., & Rottensteiner, F. (2019). Vision-based indoor localization via a visual SLAM approach. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives, 42(2/W13), 827-833. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-827-2019
Li M, Rottensteiner F. Vision-based indoor localization via a visual SLAM approach. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives. 2019;42(2/W13):827-833. doi: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W13-827-2019
Li, Minglei ; Rottensteiner, F. / Vision-based indoor localization via a visual SLAM approach. In: International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives. 2019 ; Vol. 42, No. 2/W13. pp. 827-833.
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