MDP-SLAM: A Visual SLAM towards a Dynamic Indoor Scene Based on Adaptive Mask Dilation and Dynamic Probability

• Published in: Electronics (Basel) Vol. 13; no. 8; p. 1497
• Main Authors: Zhang, Xiaofeng, Shi, Zhengyang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.04.2024
• Subjects: Accuracy; Adaptive algorithms; Algorithms; Cameras; Cluster analysis; Clustering; Datasets; Deep learning; Mathematical analysis; Methods; Semantics; Simultaneous localization and mapping; Target detection; Target masking; Vector quantization; Germany
• ISSN: 2079-9292; 2079-9292
• DOI: 10.3390/electronics13081497

Visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms in dynamic scenes will apply the moving feature points to the camera pose’s calculation, which will cause the continuous accumulation of errors. As a target-detection tool, mask R-CNN, which is often used in combination with the former, due to the limited training datasets, easily results in the semantic mask being incomplete and deformed, which will increase the error. In order to solve the above problems, we propose in this paper a visual SLAM algorithm based on an adaptive mask dilation strategy and the dynamic probability of the feature points, named MDP-SLAM. Firstly, we use the mask R-CNN target-detection algorithm to obtain the initial mask of the dynamic target. On this basis, an adaptive mask-dilation algorithm is used to obtain a mask that can completely cover the dynamic target and part of the surrounding scene. Then, we use the K-means clustering algorithm to segment the depth image information in the mask coverage area into absolute dynamic regions and relative dynamic regions. Combined with the epipolar constraint and the semantic constraint, the dynamic probability of the feature points is calculated, and then, the highly dynamic possible feature points are removed to solve an accurate final pose of the camera. Finally, the method is tested on the TUM RGB-D dataset. The results show that the MDP-SLAM algorithm proposed in this paper can effectively improve the accuracy of attitude estimation and has high accuracy and robustness in dynamic indoor scenes.