This thesis explores direct formulations for real-time, incremental Structure from Motion / SLAM. Direct methods – in contrast to indirect methods – estimate geometry directly from the images, i.e., the raw sensor measurements, without intermediate abstraction, for instance in the form of keypoint matches. This has the major advantage that it does not require points to be recognizable on their own, thus allowing to use all information from the images including corners, edges, and weakly textured or repetitive image regions.
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This thesis explores direct formulations for real-time, incremental Structure from Motion / SLAM. Direct methods – in contrast to indirect methods – estimate geometry directly from the images, i.e., the raw sensor measurements, without intermediate abstraction, for instance in the form of keypoint matches. This has the major advantage that it does not require points to be recognizable on their own, thus allowing to use all information from the images including corners, edges, and weakly textured...
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