V3D-SLAM: Robust RGB-D SLAM in Dynamic Environments with 3D Semantic Geometry Voting

Tuan Dang, Khang Nguyen, Manfred Huber

Abstract: Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in highly dynamic environments is challenging due to the correlation complexity between moving objects and the camera pose. Many methods have been proposed to deal with this problem; however, the moving properties of dynamic objects with a moving camera remain unclear. Therefore, to improve SLAM’s performance, minimizing disruptive events of moving objects with a physical understanding of 3D shapes and dynamics of objects is needed. In this paper, we propose a robust method, V3D-SLAM, to remove moving objects via two lightweight reevaluation stages, including identifying potentially moving and static objects using a spatial-reasoned Hough voting mechanism and refining static objects by detecting dynamic noise caused by intra-object motions using Chamfer distances as similarity measurements. Through our experiment on the TUM RGB-D benchmark on dynamic sequences with ground-truth camera trajectories, the results show that our methods outperform most other recent state-of-the-art SLAM methods. Our source code is available at https://github.com/tuantdang/v3d-slam.