Rover localization in natural environments by indexing panoramic images

Abstract
In this paper, we present an approach to qualitative rover lo- calization with panoramic images. The approach relies on the possibility to efficiently and robustly compute the resemblance between panoramic images, indexing them by histograms of local appearances. A database of image indexes is dynami- cally built during rover motions: when the rover re-perceives an already crossed area, it matches the current image with the stored ones (place recognition), and thus gets a qualitative es- timate of its position. Experimental results on a 400 images database illustrates the algorithms throughout the paper.

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