Dense map inference with user-defined priors: from priorlets to scan eigenvariations

  • Authors:
  • Paloma de la Puente;Andrea Censi

  • Affiliations:
  • Intelligent Control Group, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

  • Venue:
  • SC'12 Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Spatial Cognition VIII
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

When mapping is formulated in a Bayesian framework, the need of specifying a prior for the environment arises naturally. However, so far, the use of a particular structure prior has been coupled to working with a particular representation. We describe a system that supports inference with multiple priors while keeping the same dense representation. The priors are rigorously described by the user in a domain-specific language. Even though we work very close to the measurement space, we are able to represent structure constraints with the same expressivity as methods based on geometric primitives. This approach allows the intrinsic degrees of freedom of the environment's shape to be recovered. Experiments with simulated and real data sets will be presented.