Continuous and generalized visual odometry based on FLANN_PSC-RANSAC_LSTM

Abstract

In the field of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), visual odometry (VO) always has great application prospects. In recent years, with the progress in the field of machine learning, methods based on neural networks are constantly being updated and applied. In this paper, we propose a continuous and generalized monocular visual odometry method based on features and neural networks. First, the feature information of adjacent image sequences is extracted by matching and troubleshooting algorithm (FLANN_PSC-RANSAC), then it and the corresponding six-degree-of-freedom information are simultaneously input into the long short-term memory artificial neural network (LSTM) for model construction, which not only ensures the reliability of the mode but also eliminates the influence of illumination on the data. In the real environment test, it has been effectively proved in terms of trajectory recovery accuracy and generalization ability to different environments and different illuminations.