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Towards visual mapping in industrial environments: a heterogeneous task-specific and saliency driven approach. Abstract-The highly percipient nature of human mind in avoiding sensory overload is a crucial factor which gives human vision an advantage over machine vision, the latter has otherwise powerful computational resources at its disposal given today's technology. This stresses the need to focus on methods which extract a concise representation of the environment inorder to approach a complex problem such as visual mapping. This article is an attempt of creating a mapping system, which proposes an architecture that combines task-specific and saliency driven approaches. The proposed method is implemented on a warehouse robot. The proposed solution provide a priority framework which enables an industrial robot to build a concise visual representation of the environment. The method is evaluated on data collected by a RGBD sensor mounted on a fork-lift robot and shows promise for addressing visual mapping problems in industrial environments.

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A novel region based 3D semantic mapping method is proposed for urban scenes. The proposed Semantic Urban Maps (SUM) method labels the regions of segmented images into a set of geometric and semantic classes simultaneously by employing a Markov Random Field based classification framework. The pixels in the labeled images are back-projected into a set of 3D point-clouds using stereo disparity. The point-clouds are registered together by incorporating the motion estimation and a coherent semantic map representation is obtained. SUM is evaluated on five urban benchmark sequences and is demonstrated to be successful in retrieving both geometric as well as semantic labels. The comparison with relevant state-of-art method reveals that SUM is competitive and performs better than the competing method in average pixel-wise accuracy.

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