PlaceNet: A multi-scale semantic-aware model for visual loop closure detection

H Osman, N Darwish, AEM Bayoumi - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
Loop closure detection helps simultaneous localization and mapping systems reduce map
and state uncertainty via recognizing previously visited places along the path of a mobile …

Sequence-based mapping for probabilistic visual loop-closure detection

KA Tsintotas, L Bampis, S An… - … on Imaging Systems …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
During simultaneous localization and mapping, the robot should build a map of its
surroundings and simultaneously estimate its pose in the generated map. However, a …

CALC2. 0: Combining appearance, semantic and geometric information for robust and efficient visual loop closure

N Merrill, G Huang - … on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional attempts for loop closure detection typically use hand-crafted features, relying on
geometric and visual information only, whereas more modern approaches tend to use …

Robust loop closure detection integrating visual–spatial–semantic information via topological graphs and CNN features

Y Wang, Y Qiu, P Cheng, X Duan - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Loop closure detection is a key module for visual simultaneous localization and mapping
(SLAM). Most previous methods for this module have not made full use of the information …

Loop closure detection based on multi-scale deep feature fusion

B Chen, D Yuan, C Liu, Q Wu - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Loop closure detection plays a very important role in the mobile robot navigation field. It is
useful in achieving accurate navigation in complex environments and reducing the …

MATC-Net: Learning compact sequence representation for hierarchical loop closure detection

F Fu, J Yang, J Zhang, J Ma - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
Loop closure detection (LCD) is a challenging task to judge whether the current position of
an intelligent robot returns to the previously visited position. Mainstream appearance-based …

LoopNet: Where to focus? Detecting loop closures in dynamic scenes

H Osman, N Darwish… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Loop closure detection is essential in visual simultaneous localization and mapping systems
to recognize previously visited scenes, reducing pose and map estimates uncertainty …

A novel fusing semantic-and appearance-based descriptors for visual loop closure detection

P Wu, J Wang, C Wang, L Zhang, Y Wang - Optik, 2021 - Elsevier
Loop-closure detection plays an important role in visual simultaneous localisation and
mapping; it is an independent part of the visual odometer and can effectively reduce its …

Loop closure detection via maximization of mutual information

G Zhang, X Yan, Y Ye - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An image can be described in terms of appearance frequency of visual words. This
representation is implemented in bag-of-visual-words (BoVW)-based loop closure detection …

SymbioLCD: Ensemble-based loop closure detection using CNN-extracted objects and visual bag-of-words

JJY Kim, M Urschler, PJ Riddle… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Loop closure detection is an essential tool of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
(SLAM) to minimize drift in its localization. Many state-of-the-art loop closure detection (LCD) …