TY - CONF AU - David Aldavert AU - Ricardo Toledo AU - Arnau Ramisa AU - Ramon Lopez de Mantaras A2 - ICVS PY - 2009// TI - Visual Registration Method For A Low Cost Robot: Computer Vision Systems T2 - LNCS BT - 7th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems SP - 204–214 VL - 5815 PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg N2 - An autonomous mobile robot must face the correspondence or data association problem in order to carry out tasks like place recognition or unknown environment mapping. In order to put into correspondence two maps, most methods estimate the transformation relating the maps from matches established between low level feature extracted from sensor data. However, finding explicit matches between features is a challenging and computationally expensive task. In this paper, we propose a new method to align obstacle maps without searching explicit matches between features. The maps are obtained from a stereo pair. Then, we use a vocabulary tree approach to identify putative corresponding maps followed by the Newton minimization algorithm to find the transformation that relates both maps. The proposed method is evaluated in a typical office environment showing good performance. SN - 0302-9743 SN - 978-3-642-04666-7 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04667-4_21 N1 - ADAS ID - David Aldavert2009 ER -