Autonomous Exploration, Reconstruction, and Surveillance of 3D Environments Aided by Deep Learning

09/17/2018
by   Louis Ly, et al.
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We study the problem of visibility-based exploration, reconstruction and surveillance in the context of supervised learning. Using a level set representation of data and information, we train a convolutional neural network to determine vantage points that maximize visibility. We show that this method drastically reduces the on-line computational cost and determines a small set of vantage points that solve the problem. This enables us to efficiently produce highly-resolved and topologically accurate maps of complex 3D environments. We present realistic simulations on 2D and 3D urban environments.

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