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Re:How Self-Driving Cars Work by taneq on Monday December 26, 2016 @04:33AM (#13257624)
I've been wondering why no self driving systems seem to use DTAM or similar methods. Realtime dense 3D reconstruction and camera localisation on commodity hardware seems perfect for the job.
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Re:How Self-Driving Cars Work by argonaut on Monday December 26, 2016 @04:43AM (#13257654)
There is a big open research problem in the state of the art in visual SLAM (visual SLAM = SLAM from cameras), it doesn't work when the environment is moving (!!!).

Visual slam is still linear-algebra/geometric/keyframe based traditional computer vision (including variants that incorporate GPS/accelerometer info). I think the state of the art is stereo LSD-SLAM, but I could be wrong.

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Re:How Self-Driving Cars Work by jayjay71 on Monday December 26, 2016 @05:11AM (#13257724)
A great way to explain this to people would be to ask them if they've ever seen a panoramic photo glitch, and tell them that's what the car would be seeing most of the time (well, assuming anything is moving, like a car or a person or a piece of trash).
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