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P. Gemeiner, M. Richtsfeld, W. Ponweiser, P. Einramhof, M. Vincze:
"PROS AND CONS OF A HIGH-SPEED CMOS CAMERA FOR SLAM";
Talk: 16th Int. Workshop on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region, Ljubljana, Slovenia; 06-07-2007 - 06-09-2007; in: "Proceedings RAAD 2007", (2007), 6 pages.

In the vision community structure and motion estimation refers to the
problem of reconstructing a new environment while at the same time keeping track of once location. The same task of self-localization in an unknown environment is referred to as Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) in the robotics community. This paper presents the improvement of the performance of a well known SLAM method using a high-speed CMOS camera. The advantages of using this camera are that it allows fast image processing, little motion blur and low localization uncertainty. Experiments demonstrate these advantages with a high-speed camera mounted on a robotic arm to be able to compare the results against a known motion, which is often not available for mobile robots.