ORB-SLAM2 for Kinect

Authors: Raul Mur-Artal, Juan D. Tardos, J. M. M. Montiel and Dorian Galvez-Lopez (DBoW2) Forkers : Zeryab Moussaoui, Raphael Casimir

22 Sep 2018: Added Kinect examples for RGBD-SLAM

13 Jan 2017: OpenCV 3 and Eigen 3.3 are now supported.

22 Dec 2016: Added AR demo (see section 7).

ORB-SLAM2 is a real-time SLAM library for Monocular, Stereo and RGB-D cameras that computes the camera trajectory and a sparse 3D reconstruction (in the stereo and RGB-D case with true scale). It is able to detect loops and relocalize the camera in real time.

Edit : Kinect camera examples are provided using Freenect and OpenNI.

Related Publications:

[Monocular] Raúl Mur-Artal, J. M. M. Montiel and Juan D. Tardós. ORB-SLAM: A Versatile and Accurate Monocular SLAM System. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 1147-1163, 2015. (2015 IEEE Transactions on Robotics Best Paper Award). PDF.

[Stereo and RGB-D] Raúl Mur-Artal and Juan D. Tardós. ORB-SLAM2: an Open-Source SLAM System for Monocular, Stereo and RGB-D Cameras. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 1255-1262, 2017. PDF.

[DBoW2 Place Recognizer] Dorian Gálvez-López and Juan D. Tardós. Bags of Binary Words for Fast Place Recognition in Image Sequences. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 1188-1197, 2012. PDF

1. License

ORB-SLAM2 is released under a GPLv3 license. For a list of all code/library dependencies (and associated licenses), please see Dependencies.md.

For a closed-source version of ORB-SLAM2 for commercial purposes, please contact the authors: orbslam (at) unizar (dot) es.

If you use ORB-SLAM2 (Monocular) in an academic work, please cite:

@article{murTRO2015,
  title={{ORB-SLAM}: a Versatile and Accurate Monocular {SLAM} System},
  author={Mur-Artal, Ra\'ul, Montiel, J. M. M. and Tard\'os, Juan D.},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
  volume={31},
  number={5},
  pages={1147--1163},
  doi = {10.1109/TRO.2015.2463671},
  year={2015}
 }

if you use ORB-SLAM2 (Stereo or RGB-D) in an academic work, please cite:

@article{murORB2,
  title={{ORB-SLAM2}: an Open-Source {SLAM} System for Monocular, Stereo and {RGB-D} Cameras},
  author={Mur-Artal, Ra\'ul and Tard\'os, Juan D.},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
  volume={33},
  number={5},
  pages={1255--1262},
  doi = {10.1109/TRO.2017.2705103},
  year={2017}
 }

if you use ORB-SLAM 2 Kinect examples, please cite :

@article{KinectORB2,
  title={{ORB-SLAM2 for Kinect}: Kinect support for ORB-SLAM2},
  author={Zeryab Moussaoui, Raphael Casimir},
  journal={Github},
  year={2018}
 }

2. Prerequisites

We have tested the library in Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04 and 16.04, but it should be easy to compile in other platforms. A powerful computer (e.g. i7) will ensure real-time performance and provide more stable and accurate results. We have tested with the Kinect model 1 for Xbox 360.

C++11 or C++0x Compiler

We use the new thread and chrono functionalities of C++11.

Pangolin

We use Pangolin for visualization and user interface. Dowload and install instructions can be found at: https://github.com/stevenlovegrove/Pangolin.

Kinect drivers

We use either OpenNI or Open Kinect for Kinect support. Download and install instructions can be found on their Github projects.

OpenCV

We use OpenCV to manipulate images and features. Dowload and install instructions can be found at: http://opencv.org. Required at leat 2.4.3. Tested with OpenCV 2.4.11 and OpenCV 3.2. For OpenNI support, download and install instructions can be found at : https://docs.opencv.org/2.4/doc/user_guide/ug_kinect.html.

Eigen3

Required by g2o (see below). Download and install instructions can be found at: http://eigen.tuxfamily.org. Required at least 3.1.0.

DBoW2 and g2o (Included in Thirdparty folder)

We use modified versions of the DBoW2 library to perform place recognition and g2o library to perform non-linear optimizations. Both modified libraries (which are BSD) are included in the Thirdparty folder.

ROS (optional)

We provide some examples to process the live input of a monocular, stereo or RGB-D camera using ROS. Building these examples is optional. In case you want to use ROS, a version Hydro or newer is needed.

3. Building ORB-SLAM2 library and examples

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/raulmur/ORB_SLAM2.git ORB_SLAM2

We provide a script build.sh to build the Thirdparty libraries and ORB-SLAM2. Please make sure you have installed all required dependencies (see section 2). Execute:

cd ORB_SLAM2
chmod +x build.sh
./build.sh

This will create libORB_SLAM2.so at lib folder and the executables rgbd_kinect_freenect, rgbd_kinect_openNI in Examples folder.

4. Executing Kinect examples

1. for Open Kinect support, execute :

./Examples/RGB-D/rgbd_kinect_freenect Vocabulary/ORBvoc.txt Examples/RGB-D/kinect.yaml

2. for Open Kinect support, execute :

./Examples/RGB-D/rgbd_kinect_openNI Vocabulary/ORBvoc.txt Examples/RGB-D/kinect.yaml

This will produce in the current directory Localisation and Mapping files : currentPos.txt and *MapPoints.txt"

5. Executing other ORB-SLAM2 examples

Please refeer to the original project : ORB-SLAM2