NDLI: Online egomotion estimation of RGB-D sensors using spherical harmonics

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Osteen, P.R. Owens, J.L. Kessens, C.C.
Copyright Year	2012
Description	Author affiliation: United States Army Research Laboratory, College Park, MD 20742 USA (Kessens, C.C.) \|\| Motile Robotics Inc., Joppa, MD 21085 USA (Osteen, P.R.) \|\| United States Army Research Laboratory, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA (Owens, J.L.)
Abstract	We present a technique to estimate the egomotion of an RGB-D sensor based on rotations of functions defined on the unit sphere. In contrast to traditional approaches, our technique is not based on image features and does not require correspondences to be generated between frames of data. Instead, consecutive functions are correlated using spherical harmonic analysis. An Extended Gaussian Image (EGI), created from the local normal estimates of a point cloud, defines each function. Correlations are efficiently computed using Fourier transformations, resulting in a 3 Degree of Freedom (3-DoF) rotation estimate. An Iterative Closest Point (ICP) process then refines the initial rotation estimate and adds a translational component, yielding a full 6-DoF egomotion estimate. The focus of this work is to investigate the merits of using spherical harmonic analysis for egomotion estimation by comparison with alternative 6-DoF methods. We compare the performance of the proposed technique with that of stand-alone ICP and image feature based methods. As with other egomotion techniques, estimation errors accumulate and degrade results, necessitating correction mechanisms for robust localization. For this report, however, we use the raw estimates; no filtering or smoothing processes are applied. In-house and external benchmark data sets are analyzed for both runtime and accuracy. Results show that the algorithm is competitive in terms of both accuracy and runtime, and future work will aim to combine the various techniques into a more robust egomotion estimation framework.
Starting Page	1679
Ending Page	1684
File Size	1642135
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467314039
ISSN	10504729
e-ISBN	9781467314053
e-ISBN	9781467314046
DOI	10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225098
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-05-14
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Sensors Runtime Estimation Harmonic analysis Iterative closest point algorithm Accuracy Correlation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Artificial Intelligence Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Software

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