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Semantic Feature Matching for Robust Mapping in Agriculture

2021-07-09 02:11:28
Mohamad Qadri, George Kantor

Abstract

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems are an essential component in agricultural robotics that enable autonomous navigation and the construction of accurate 3D maps of agricultural fields. However, lack of texture, varying illumination conditions, and lack of structure in the environment pose a challenge for Visual-SLAM systems that rely on traditional feature extraction and matching algorithms such as ORB or SIFT. This paper proposes 1) an object-level feature association algorithm that enables the creation of 3D reconstructions robustly by taking advantage of the structure in robotic navigation in agricultural fields, and 2) An object-level SLAM system that utilizes recent advances in deep learning-based object detection and segmentation algorithms to detect and segment semantic objects in the environment used as landmarks for SLAM. We test our SLAM system on a stereo image dataset of a sorghum field. We show that our object-based feature association algorithm enables us to map 78% of a sorghum range on average. In contrast, with traditional visual features, we achieve an average mapped distance of 38%. We also compare our system against ORB-SLAM2, a state-of-the-art visual SLAM algorithm.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04178

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.04178.pdf


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