ESLAM: Efficient Dense SLAM System Based on Hybrid Representation of Signed Distance Fields

We present ESLAM, an efficient implicit neural representation method for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). ESLAM reads RGB-D frames with unknown camera poses in a sequential manner and incrementally reconstructs the scene representation while estimating the current camera position in the...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Mohammad Mahdi Johari, Carta, Camilla, Fleuret, François
Format Paper
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 03.04.2023
Subjects
Cameras
Decoders
Hybrid systems
Representations
Simultaneous localization and mapping
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Summary:We present ESLAM, an efficient implicit neural representation method for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). ESLAM reads RGB-D frames with unknown camera poses in a sequential manner and incrementally reconstructs the scene representation while estimating the current camera position in the scene. We incorporate the latest advances in Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) into a SLAM system, resulting in an efficient and accurate dense visual SLAM method. Our scene representation consists of multi-scale axis-aligned perpendicular feature planes and shallow decoders that, for each point in the continuous space, decode the interpolated features into Truncated Signed Distance Field (TSDF) and RGB values. Our extensive experiments on three standard datasets, Replica, ScanNet, and TUM RGB-D show that ESLAM improves the accuracy of 3D reconstruction and camera localization of state-of-the-art dense visual SLAM methods by more than 50%, while it runs up to 10 times faster and does not require any pre-training.
ISSN:2331-8422