SVO Semi-direct Monocular Visual Odometry

[mmyself]

someone thought about this package and maybe to include it in tum_ardrone?

http://www.ros.org/news/2014/06/new-package-svo-semi-direct-monocular-visual-odometry.html

[rohanbhargava11]

I have been trying to test this package but haven't found the time. I am curious to know how good it is.

I am not sure if this package should be a part of tum_ardrone. I think they are independent of each other and should be maintained that way.

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Jan notifications@github.com wrote:

someone thought about this package and maybe to include it in tum_ardrone?

http://www.ros.org/news/2014/06/new-package-svo-semi-direct-monocular-visual-odometry.html

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/tum-vision/tum_ardrone/issues/29.

[tmagcaya]

I just tried SVO on an ardrone and since the ardrone's camera is not a global shutter camera, SVO looses tracked features much quickly then PTAM. keep in mind that I did not modify my ardrone and that it was pointing forward while flying.

Here is SVO's result of a tum_ardrone flight when playing back from a bag.

I just asked the following question about an issue with the autopilot. Can you help?: https://github.com/tum-vision/tum_ardrone/issues/51