• Laser & Optoelectronics Progress
  • Vol. 61, Issue 18, 1815001 (2024)
Xudong Zeng1,2, Shaosheng Fan1,2,*, Shangzhi Xu1,2, and Yuting Zhou1,2
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410111, Hunan, China
  • 2Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Electric Power Robotics, Changsha 410111, Hunan, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/LOP232620 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Xudong Zeng, Shaosheng Fan, Shangzhi Xu, Yuting Zhou. Monocular VI-SLAM Algorithm Based on Lightweight SuperPoint Network in Low-Light Environment[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2024, 61(18): 1815001 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Visual inertial simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) technology improves the accuracy of mapping and positioning by considering relevant visual and inertial constraints. However, in low-light environments, the quality of feature point extraction and tracking stability at the visual front-end are poor, which leads to easy loss of tracking and low positioning accuracy in the visual inertial SLAM algorithm. Therefore, we propose a monocular inertial SLAM algorithm called GS-VINS based on the VINS-Mono framework. First, an adaptive image enhancement algorithm is used to enhance the grayscale distribution of low-light images. Then, a GN2_SuperPoint feature point detection network is proposed, and it is combined with a feature point dynamic tracking module to improve the stability of optical flow tracking. Experiments on the EuRoC dataset and in real-world scenarios show that the proposed algorithm improves localization accuracy by 26.57% compared to VINS-Mono and it demonstrates strong robustness to changes in lighting. In the comparison experiment, the success rate of the feature tracking increases by 8%, and the closure error in real-world scenarios is reduced by ~45.73%. The proposed algorithm shows good accuracy and stability in low-light environments and provides a novel solution for visual navigation under low-light conditions, thereby offering valuable engineering applications.
    Xudong Zeng, Shaosheng Fan, Shangzhi Xu, Yuting Zhou. Monocular VI-SLAM Algorithm Based on Lightweight SuperPoint Network in Low-Light Environment[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2024, 61(18): 1815001
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