This paper presents Sequence Matching Across Route Traversals (SMART); a generally applicable sequence-based place recognition algorithm. SMART provides invariance to changes in illumination and vehicle speed while also providing moderate pose invariance and robustness to environmental aliasing. We evaluate SMART on vehicles travelling at highly variable speeds in two challenging environments; firstly, on an all-terrain vehicle in an off-road, forest track and secondly, using a passenger car traversing an urban environment across day and night. We provide comparative results to the current state-of-the-art SeqSLAM algorithm and investigate the effects of altering SMART's image matching parameters. Additionally, we conduct an extensive study of the relationship between image sequence length and SMART's matching performance. Our results show viable place recognition performance in both environments with short 10-metre sequences, and up to 96% recall at 100% precision across extreme day-night cycles when longer image sequences are used.


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    Title :

    All-environment visual place recognition with SMART


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    Publication date :

    2014-05-01


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    1742480 byte




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    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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