Abstract
Feature extraction plays a crucial role in computer vision and autonomous navigation, offering valuable information for real-time localization and scene understanding. However, although multiple studies investigate keypoint detection and description algorithms in urban and indoor environments, far fewer studies concentrate in unstructured environments. In this study, a multi-task deep learning architecture is developed for keypoint detection and description, focused on poor-featured unstructured and planetary scenes with low or changing illumination. The proposed architecture was trained and evaluated using a training and benchmark dataset with earthy and planetary scenes. Moreover, the trained model was integrated in a visual SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Maping) system as a feature extraction module, and tested in two feature-poor unstructured areas. Regarding the results, the proposed architecture provides a mAP (mean Average Precision) in a level of 0.95 in terms of keypoint description, outperforming well-known handcrafted algorithms while the proposed SLAM achieved two times lower RMSE error in a poor-featured area with low illumination, compared with ORB-SLAM2. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study that investigates the potential of keypoint detection and description through deep learning in unstructured and planetary environments.
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