Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

University of Seoul Industry Cooperation Foundation

San Kim

Hongseok Lee

Myungjae Jeon

Kichul Kim

Yongkyu Kim

Donggeun Lee

Hyekwan Yun

Provided is an accelerator provided in an electronic device and configured to perform simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), the accelerator including a factor graph database, a memory, and a back-end processor, wherein the back-end processor is configured to receive a first piece of data corresponding to map points and camera positions from the factor graph database, convert the received first piece of data into a matrix for the map points and a matrix for the camera positions, store, in the memory, results obtained by performing an optimization calculation on the matrix for the map points and a matrix for at least one camera position, among the camera positions, corresponding to the map points, and obtain a second piece of data optimized with respect to the first piece of data based on the results stored in the memory.

Method for performing simultaneous localization and mapping and device using same

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Changwon-si, South Korea

San Kim