DTAM: Dense tracking and mapping in real-time

  • Authors:

  • Richard A. Newcombe;Steven J. Lovegrove;Andrew J. Davison

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK;Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK;Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK

  • Venue:
  • ICCV '11 Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Computer Vision
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

DTAM is a system for real-time camera tracking and reconstruction which relies not on feature extraction but dense, every pixel methods. As a single hand-held RGB camera flies over a static scene, we estimate detailed textured depth maps at selected keyframes to produce a surface patchwork with millions of vertices. We use the hundreds of images available in a video stream to improve the quality of a simple photometric data term, and minimise a global spatially regularised energy functional in a novel non-convex optimisation framework. Interleaved, we track the camera's 6DOF motion precisely by frame-rate whole image alignment against the entire dense model. Our algorithms are highly parallelisable throughout and DTAM achieves real-time performance using current commodity GPU hardware. We demonstrate that a dense model permits superior tracking performance under rapid motion compared to a state of the art method using features; and also show the additional usefulness of the dense model for real-time scene interaction in a physics-enhanced augmented reality application.