Local Descriptors for Visual SLAM
Monica Ballesta, Arturo Gil, Óscar Martínez Mozos, Óscar Reinoso
Workshop on Robotics and Mathematics (RoboMat).   (Coimbra, Portugal, September 2007.)
Ed. Centro Internacional de Matematica  ISBN:978-989-95011-3-3  - pp. 209-215

Abstract:

We present a comparison of several local image descriptors in the context of visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). In visual SLAM a set of points in the environment are extracted from images and used as landmarks. The points are represented by local descriptors used to resolve the association between landmarks. In this paper, we study the class separability of several descriptors under changes in viewpoint and scale. Several experiments were carried out using sequences of images in 2D and 3D scenes.