A survey: which features are required for dynamic visual simultaneous localization and mapping?

• Main Authors: Zewen Xu, Zheng Rong, Yihong Wu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2021-07-01
• Series: Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art
• Subjects: Dynamic simultaneous localization and mapping; Multiple objects tracking; Data association; Object simultaneous localization and mapping; Feature choices
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s42492-021-00086-w

Abstract In recent years, simultaneous localization and mapping in dynamic environments (dynamic SLAM) has attracted significant attention from both academia and industry. Some pioneering work on this technique has expanded the potential of robotic applications. Compared to standard SLAM under the static world assumption, dynamic SLAM divides features into static and dynamic categories and leverages each type of feature properly. Therefore, dynamic SLAM can provide more robust localization for intelligent robots that operate in complex dynamic environments. Additionally, to meet the demands of some high-level tasks, dynamic SLAM can be integrated with multiple object tracking. This article presents a survey on dynamic SLAM from the perspective of feature choices. A discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of different visual features is provided in this article.