iBoW-LCD: An Appearance-based Loop Closure Detection Approach using Incremental Bags of Binary Words
arXiv:1802.05909 · doi:10.1109/LRA.2018.2849609
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce iBoW-LCD, a novel appearance-based loop closure detection method. The presented approach makes use of an incremental Bag-of-Words (BoW) scheme based on binary descriptors to retrieve previously seen similar images, avoiding any vocabulary training stage usually required by classic BoW models. In addition, to detect loop closures, iBoW-LCD builds on the concept of dynamic islands, a simple but effective mechanism to group similar images close in time, which reduces the computational times typically associated to Bayesian frameworks. Our approach is validated using several indoor and outdoor public datasets, taken under different environmental conditions, achieving a high accuracy and outperforming other state-of-the-art solutions.
Accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2018
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