IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society (Jan 2024)

Non-Lambertian Surfaces and Their Challenges for Visual SLAM

  • Sara Pyykola,
  • Niclas Joswig,
  • Laura Ruotsalainen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/OJCS.2024.3419832
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5
pp. 430 – 445

Abstract

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Non-Lambertian surfaces are special surfaces that can cause specific type of reflectances called specularities, which pose a potential issue in industrial SLAM. This article reviews fundamental surface reflectance models, modern state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms and two public datasets, KITTI and DiLiGenT, related to non-Lambertian surfaces' research. A new dataset, SPINS, is presented for the purpose of studying non-Lambertian surfaces in navigation and an empirical performance evaluation with ResNeXt-101-WSL, ORB SLAM 3 and TartanVO is performed on the data. The article concludes with discussion about the results of empirical evaluation and the findings of the survey.

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