Visual SLAM - An Emerging Technology
Abstract
Visual SLAM is the process of making maps and staying localized using
mainly visual information. VSLAM is challenging because of full 3D
motion, the volume of visual information, and the geometry perspective
projection. Recent advances have shown the possibility of doing
realtime VSLAM over extended regions, indoors and outdoors. This
workshop will bring together researchers interested in sharing their
latest research, data, and future directions. We will distribute
datasets beforehand on which participants can test their systems, to
facilitate comparison of techniques.
List of topics
- Features for visual tracking
- Stability and robustness of VSLAM in small environments
- Loop closure in small and large environments
- Integration with exogenous sensors (IMUs, motion constraints, etc.)
- Place recognition for VSLAM
- Large-scale and outdoor mapping
Motivation and objectives
There has been an explosion of research in VSLAM, driven from both the
fields of robot mapping with laser sensors, and vision research for
mobile robots. There has been a lot of progress, with many new and
interesting techniques developed and deployed in different
environments. This workshop will be useful in bringing together
researchers to talk about the successes and limitations of their
tehcniques, and how they will approach the significant problems still
remaining. A particular motivation is to see how different systems
perform on standard datasets, since it is often difficult to judge
comparative performance from separate papers. We will provide several
types of datasets, both indoor and outdoor, several months before the
workshop. We will ask presenters to exercise their systems on the
datasets, and fill out a performance worksheet, which will be analyzed
and distributed at the workshop.
Conference Organizers
Motilal Agrawal, SRI International
Kurt Konolige, SRI International
Date and Venue
This workshop will be held on Friday, Nov 2 2007 at San Diego in
conjunction with IROS 2007 and will consist of a series of invited talks
and a panel discussion by leading
researchers in this field
Agenda
To be announced
Paper Submission
Deadlines:
- Abstract and Title - 6 Aug
- Final Paper 20 Aug
