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Symmetry and Uncertainty-Aware Object SLAM for 6DoF Object Pose Estimation

  • Nathaniel Merrill
  • , Yuliang Guo
  • , Xingxing Zuo
  • , Xinyu Huang
  • , Stefan Leutenegger
  • , Xi Peng
  • , Liu Ren
  • , Guoquan Huang
  • University of Delaware
  • Bosch Research North America
  • Technical University of Munich

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Abstract

We propose a keypoint-based object-level SLAM framework that can provide globally consistent 6DoF pose estimates for symmetric and asymmetric objects alike. To the best of our knowledge, our system is among the first to utilize the camera pose information from SLAM to provide prior knowledge for tracking keypoints on symmetric objects - ensuring that new measurements are consistent with the current 3D scene. Moreover, our semantic key-point network is trained to predict the Gaussian covariance for the keypoints that captures the true error of the prediction, and thus is not only useful as a weight for the residuals in the system's optimization problems, but also as a means to detect harmful statistical outliers without choosing a manual threshold. Experiments show that our method provides competitive performance to the state of the art in 6DoF object pose estimation, and at a real-time speed. Our code, pre-trained models, and keypoint labels are available https://github.com/rpng/suo_slam.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2022
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages14881-14890
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781665469463
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2022 - New Orleans, United States
Duration: 19 Jun 202224 Jun 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Volume2022-June
ISSN (Print)1063-6919

Conference

Conference2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew Orleans
Period19/06/2224/06/22

Keywords

  • 3D from multi-view and sensors
  • Motion and tracking
  • Pose estimation and tracking
  • Robot vision
  • Scene analysis and understanding
  • Vision applications and systems

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