测绘学报 ›› 2026, Vol. 55 ›› Issue (7): 1278-1292.doi: 10.11947/j.AGCS.2026.20250514

• 摄影测量学与遥感 • 上一篇    

复杂光照环境下融合轻量级光照增强网络的视觉SLAM方法

曾路兵1(), 李建胜1,2,3(), 王安成1,2,3,4, 杨子迪1, 高宇宁1, 张嘉杰1   

  1. 1.信息工程大学地理空间信息学院,河南 郑州 450001
    2.智慧中原地理信息技术河南省协同创新中心,河南 郑州 450001
    3.北斗导航应用技术河南省协同创新中心,河南 郑州 450001
    4.智慧地球重点实验室,北京 100029
  • 收稿日期:2025-12-05 修回日期:2026-07-18 发布日期:2026-08-18
  • 通讯作者: 李建胜 E-mail:zlb17275600401@163.com;ljs2021@vip.henu.edu.cn
  • 作者简介:曾路兵(2002—),男,硕士生,研究方向为计算机视觉、多源融合导航。 E-mail:zlb17275600401@163.com
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金(42330113)

A visual SLAM method fusing lightweight illumination enhancement network in complex illumination environments

Lubing Zeng1(), Jiansheng Li1,2,3(), Ancheng Wang1,2,3,4, Zidi Yang1, Yuning Gao1, Jiajie Zhang1   

  1. 1.School of Geospatial Information, Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou 450001
    2.Collaborative Innovation Center of Geo-Information Technology for Smart Central Plains, Zhengzhou 450001
    3.Collaborative Innovation Center of BDS Navigation Application Technology, Zhengzhou 450001
    4.Key Laboratory of Smart Earth, Beijing 100029
  • Received:2025-12-05 Revised:2026-07-18 Published:2026-08-18
  • Contact: Jiansheng Li E-mail:zlb17275600401@163.com;ljs2021@vip.henu.edu.cn
  • About author:Zeng Lubing (2002—), male, postgraduate, majors in computer vision and multi-source fusion navigation. E-mail: zlb17275600401@163.com
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China(42330113)

摘要:

视觉同时定位与建图(SLAM)在低光照、高曝光等复杂光照下易因特征质量退化而跟踪失败。为此,本文提出一种基于轻量级光照增强网络的视觉SLAM方法。首先,设计了一种空间自适应的光照均衡(IE)曲线,通过逐像素空间趋势图实现低光照增强与高曝光抑制,同时维持正常光照区域的光度一致性。然后,通过提出一种基于图像均值驱动的自适应连续迭代策略,动态调整曲线阶数以适应不同曝光程度的图像,有效避免了固定迭代的局限性。最后,通过改进DCE-Net网络,采用深度可分离卷积(DSC)与末端批归一化实现在几乎同等参数量的情况下维持训练的稳定性。经测试,CPU端单帧处理仅需12 ms,满足SLAM前端实时性的要求。在EuRoC、TUM-VI及KITTI数据集的12个复杂光照序列上进行试验验证,并与多种传统和深度学习视觉增强算法对比分析,本文方法的绝对轨迹误差(ATE)的均方根误差(RMSE)比VINS-Fusion平均降低32.3%,在所有对比方法中性能最优,为视觉SLAM在复杂光照环境下的可靠部署提供了解决方案。

关键词: 视觉SLAM, 图像增强, 复杂光照, 深度学习

Abstract:

Visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is susceptible to tracking failure under complex illumination conditions such as low-light and high-exposure due to feature quality degradation. To address this challenge, we propose a visual SLAM method based on a lightweight illumination enhancement network. First, a spatially adaptive illumination equalization (IE) curve is designed to achieve low-light enhancement and high-exposure suppression through per-pixel spatial trend maps while maintaining photometric consistency in normally illuminated regions. Then, an image-mean-driven adaptive continuous iteration strategy is proposed to dynamically adjust the curve order for images with varying exposure levels, effectively avoiding the limitations of fixed iterations. Finally, we improve the deep curve estimation network (DCE-Net) by employing depth-wise separable convolutions (DSC) and end-batch normalization to maintain training stability with almost the same parameter count. Tests show that single-frame processing on the CPU requires only 12 ms, meeting the real-time requirements of the SLAM frontend. To validate the proposed method, experiments were conducted on 12 challenging illumination sequences from the EuRoC, TUM-VI, and KITTI datasets. Comparative analyses were performed with various traditional and deep learning visual enhancement algorithms. The experimental results demonstrate that the root mean square error (RMSE) of absolute trajectory error (ATE) is reduced by 32.3% on average compared with VINS-Fusion, achieving the best performance among all compared methods. This method provides a solution for the reliable deployment of visual SLAM in complex illumination environments.

Key words: visual SLAM, image enhancement, complex illumination, deep learning

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