DMOT-SLAM: visual SLAM in dynamic environments with moving object tracking

Abstract Visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in dynamic environments has received significant attention in recent years, and accurate segmentation of real dynamic objects is the key to enhancing the accuracy of pose estimation in such environments. In this study, we propose a visual SLAM approach based on ORB-SLAM3, namely dynamic multiple object tracking SLAM (DMOT-SLAM), which can accurately estimate the camera’s pose in dynamic environments while tracking the trajectories of moving objects. We introduce a spatial point correlation constraint and combine it with instance segmentation and epipolar constraint to identify dynamic objects. We integrate the proposed motion check method into DeepSort, an object tracking algorithm, to facilitate inter-frame tracking of dynamic objects. This integration not only enhances the stability of dynamic features detection but also enables the estimation of global motion trajectories for dynamic objects and the construction of object-level semi-dense semantic maps. We evaluate our approach on the public TUM, Bonn, and KITTI dataset, and the results show that our approach has a significant improvement over ORB-SLAM3 in dynamic scenes and performs better compared to other state-of-the-art SLAM approaches. Moreover, experiments in real-world scenarios further substantiate the effectiveness of our approach.