A Novel Line Feature Description and Matching Method for Visual-Aided Inertial Navigation System

Abstract

Abstract With the rapid development of machine vision technology, more and more attention has been paid to the visual-aided inertial navigation system. It is important that to extract and track the line features at the dynamic situation in the visual-aided inertial navigation system which is based on visual line feature information to compensate attitude errors. A novel line feature description is proposed that use the SURF points to mark the LSD lines. Then, through coarse matching and fine matching, the function of continuously tracking the one line features in different images was realized. These line feature description and tracking method are applied in the visual-aided inertial navigation system, and its effectiveness is verified by the vehicle experiment.