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Am Mittwoch, den 29. November 2017 hält Herr Haoan Wang um 16:30 Uhr im Raum P 1.4.17 einen Vortrag über seine Masterarbeit mit dem Titel:

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Driven Place Recognition for Appearance-based Mapping

Abstract:

Appearance-based mapping algorithms recognize places to localize a mobile robot during indoor and outdoor operations. In this respect, vision sensors are used as they offer ample features to uniquely represent the scenes. The FAB-MAP approach uses hand-engineered features (e.g. SIFT, SURF, etc.) to assist the localization of a robot by detecting loop-closures. However, these features are sensitive to illumination changes, therefore, the FAB-MAP approach produces false loop-closures in cases where a place has an undergone illumination or appearance change. This often leads to a failure in appearance-based mapping. With the advancement of artificial intelligence, the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for place recognition has drawn a huge attention in computer vision due to its robust performance against these kind of changes. This master thesis is aimed at integrating features obtained from CNN into the FAB-MAP approach to improve loop-closure detection results. The performance of the proposed method will be evaluated by comparing the precision–recall curve and average precision with the original FAB-MAP approach.