Appearance-based localization using Group LASSO regression with an indoor experiment

This paper proposes appearance-based localization using online vision images collected from an omnidirectional camera attached on a mobile robot or a vehicle. Our approach builds on a combination of the group Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) and the extended Kalman filter (EKF). Fast Fourier transform (FFT) and Histogram are extracted from omni-directional images, the features of which are selected via the group LASSO regression. The EKF takes the output of the group LASSO regression based first-stage localization as the observation. The indoor experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.

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