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Article

PLY-SLAM: Semantic Visual SLAM Integrating Point–Line Features with YOLOv8-seg in Dynamic Scenes

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School of Information Science and Technology, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650500, China
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Engineering Research Center of Computer Vision and Intelligent Control Technology, Department of Education of Yunnan Province, Kunming 650500, China
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Sensors 2025, 25(12), 3597; https://doi.org/10.3390/s25123597
Submission received: 28 April 2025 / Revised: 3 June 2025 / Accepted: 5 June 2025 / Published: 7 June 2025
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Vision-Based UAV Navigation: Innovations and Applications)

Abstract

In dynamic and low texture environments, traditional point-feature-based visual SLAM (vSLAM) often faces the challenges of poor robustness and low localization accuracy. To this end, this paper proposes a semantic vSLAM approach that fuses point-line features with YOLOv8-seg. First, we designed a high-performance 3D line-segment extraction method that determines the number of points to be sampled for each line-segment in terms of the length of the 2D line-segments extracted from the image, and back-projects these sampled points combined with the depth image to obtain the 3D point set of the line-segments. On this basis, accurate 3D line-segment fitting is realized in combination with the RANSAC algorithm. Subsequently, we introduce Delaunay triangulation to construct the geometric relationships between map points, detect dynamic feature points by matching changes in the topological structure of feature points in adjacent frames, and combine them with the instance labels provided by the YOLOv8-seg to accurately remove dynamic feature points. Finally, a loop-closure detection mechanism that fuses point–line features with instance-level matching is designed to calculate a normalized similarity score by combining the positional similarity of the instances, the scale similarity, and the spatial consistency of the static instances. A series of simulations and experiments demonstrate the superior performance of our method.
Keywords: dynamic scene; semantic visual SLAM; point-line features; YOLOv8-seg; loop-closure detection dynamic scene; semantic visual SLAM; point-line features; YOLOv8-seg; loop-closure detection

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Mao, H.; Luo, J. PLY-SLAM: Semantic Visual SLAM Integrating Point–Line Features with YOLOv8-seg in Dynamic Scenes. Sensors 2025, 25, 3597. https://doi.org/10.3390/s25123597

AMA Style

Mao H, Luo J. PLY-SLAM: Semantic Visual SLAM Integrating Point–Line Features with YOLOv8-seg in Dynamic Scenes. Sensors. 2025; 25(12):3597. https://doi.org/10.3390/s25123597

Chicago/Turabian Style

Mao, Huan, and Jingwen Luo. 2025. "PLY-SLAM: Semantic Visual SLAM Integrating Point–Line Features with YOLOv8-seg in Dynamic Scenes" Sensors 25, no. 12: 3597. https://doi.org/10.3390/s25123597

APA Style

Mao, H., & Luo, J. (2025). PLY-SLAM: Semantic Visual SLAM Integrating Point–Line Features with YOLOv8-seg in Dynamic Scenes. Sensors, 25(12), 3597. https://doi.org/10.3390/s25123597

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