Mobile robots must be able to learn, use and maintain models of their environments. Two fundamental and interrelated problems in mobile robotics are mapping and localization. We present here a new type of image-based map formed by panoramic models enriched with depth and 3D planarity information. We take an advantage of the scene geometry implicitly contained in the model to localize a mobile robot that is moving in the same environment. The novelty of this model compared to the existing image-based maps is that the motion of the robot is not restricted to a predefined path or locations close to the original images. Experimental results demonstrate this approach.
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