Robust Visual Place Recognition With Graph Kernels

Elena Stumm, Christopher Mei, Simon Lacroix, Juan Nieto, Marco Hutter, Roland Siegwart; Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2016, pp. 4535-4544

Abstract


A novel method for visual place recognition is introduced and evaluated, demonstrating robustness to perceptual aliasing and observation noise. This is achieved by increasing discrimination through a more structured representation of visual observations. Estimation of observation likelihoods are based on graph kernel formulations, utilizing both the structural and visual information encoded in covisibility graphs. The proposed probabilistic model is able to circumvent the typically difficult and expensive posterior normalization procedure by exploiting the information available in visual observations. Furthermore, the place recognition complexity is independent of the size of the map. Results show improvements over the state-of-the-art on a diverse set of both public datasets and novel experiments, highlighting the benefit of the approach.

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@InProceedings{Stumm_2016_CVPR,
author = {Stumm, Elena and Mei, Christopher and Lacroix, Simon and Nieto, Juan and Hutter, Marco and Siegwart, Roland},
title = {Robust Visual Place Recognition With Graph Kernels},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
month = {June},
year = {2016}
}