Beschreibung:

MultiCol-SLAM is a full multi-fisheye camera SLAM system build upon ORB-SLAM. It extends ORB-SLAM with some novel concepts and methods. First, keyframes are exchanged by multi-keyframes modelling the fact, that multiple images exist at each keyframe position. The multi-camera system is modeled using MultiCol and the camera projections within these model are calibrated using a generic polynomial model. Bundle adjustment is formulated as an optimization of a hyper graph and implemented in g2o. Furthermore, new types of descriptors are included, i.e. a distorted and an online learned, masked version of BRIEF. The loop closing mechanisms and re-localization capabilites of ORB-SLAM are extended for multi-camera systems.