RGB-D Mapping: Using Depth Cameras for Dense 3D Mapping

http://www.cs.washington.edu/ai/Mobile_Robotics/projects/rgbd-3d-mapping
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has been a major focus of mobile robotics work for decades. We combine state-of-the-art visual odometry and pose-graph estimation techniques with a combined color and depth camera to do SLAM to make accurate, dense maps of indoor environments. Adding depth to conventional color-camera techniques improves both the accuracy and the denseness of our maps.

This project is affiliated with the Robotics and State Estimation Lab.

Publications

Interactive 3D Modeling of Indoor Environments with a Consumer Depth Camera
Hao Du, Peter Henry, Xiaofeng Ren, Marvin Cheng, Dan B Goldman, Steven Seitz and Dieter Fox
International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, 2011. Full Paper (PDF)
Visual Odometry and Mapping for Autonomous Flight Using an RGB-D Camera
Albert S. Huang, Abraham Bachrach, Peter Henry, Michael Krainin, Daniel Maturana and Dieter Fox
International Symposium on Robotics Research, 2011. Full Paper (PDF)
RGB-D Mapping: Using Depth Cameras for Dense 3D Modeling of Indoor Environments
Peter Henry, Michael Krainin, Evan Herbst, Xiaofeng Ren and Dieter Fox
International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, 2010. Paper (PDF)