Abstract

This paper presents a new and robust method for extracting and matching visual vertical features between images taken by an omnidirectional camera. Matching robustness is achieved by creating a descriptor which is unique and distinctive for each feature. Furthermore, the proposed descriptor is invariant to rotation. The robustness of the approach is validated through real experiments with a wheeled robot equipped with an omnidirectional camera. We show that vertical lines are very well extracted and tracked during the robot motion. At the end, we also present an application of our algorithm to the robot simultaneous localization and mapping in an unknown environment.

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