<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This paper introduces a robust, real-time loop closure correction technique for achieving global consistency in 3D reconstruction, whose underlying notion is to back-propagate the cumulative transformation error appearing while merging the pairs of consecutive frames in a sequence of shots taken by an RGB-D or depth camera. The proposed algorithm assumes that the starting frame and the last frame of the sequence roughly overlap. In order to verify the robustness and reliability of the proposed method, namely, Proportional Error Back- Propagation (PEB), it has been applied to numerous case-studies, which encompass a wide range of experimental conditions, including different scanning trajectories with reversely directed motions within them, and the results are presented. The main contribution of the proposed algorithm is its considerably low computational cost which has the possibility of usage in real-time 3D reconstruction applications. Also, neither manual input nor interference is required from the user, which renders the whole process automatic.</p></abstract>

This paper introduces a robust, real-time loop closure correction technique for achieving global consistency in 3D reconstruction, whose underlying notion is to back-propagate the cumulative transformation error appearing while merging the pairs of consecutive frames in a sequence of shots taken by an RGB-D or depth camera. The proposed algorithm assumes that the starting frame and the last frame of the sequence roughly overlap. In order to verify the robustness and reliability of the proposed method, namely, Proportional Error Back- Propagation (PEB), it has been applied to numerous case-studies, which encompass a wide range of experimental conditions, including different scanning trajectories with reversely directed motions within them, and the results are presented. The main contribution of the proposed algorithm is its considerably low computational cost which has the possibility of usage in real-time 3D reconstruction applications. Also, neither manual input nor interference is required from the user, which renders the whole process automatic.

Proportional Error Back-Propagation (PEB): Real-Time Automatic Loop Closure Correction for Maintaining Global Consistency in 3D Reconstruction with Minimal Computational Cost

Measurement Science Review

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This paper introduces a robust, real-time loop closure correction technique for achieving global consistency in 3D reconstruction, whose underlying notion is...

Proportional Error Back-Propagation (PEB): Real-Time Automatic Loop Closure Correction for Maintaining Global Consistency in 3D Reconstruction with Minimal Computational Cost

Published Online: Jun 12, 2018

Page range: 86 - 93

Received: Oct 01, 2017

Accepted: Apr 25, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/msr-2018-0013

Keywords
3D reconstruction, global consistency, loop closure correction, Iterative Closest Point, Proportional Error Back-propagation

© 2018 Morteza Daneshmand, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Proportional Error Back-Propagation (PEB): Real-Time Automatic Loop Closure Correction for Maintaining Global Consistency in 3D Reconstruction with Minimal Computational Cost

Published Online: Jun 12, 2018

Page range: 86 - 93

Received: Oct 01, 2017

Accepted: Apr 25, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/msr-2018-0013

Keywords3D reconstruction, global consistency, loop closure correction, Iterative Closest Point, Proportional Error Back-propagation

© 2018 Morteza Daneshmand, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
3D reconstruction, global consistency, loop closure correction, Iterative Closest Point, Proportional Error Back-propagation