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A Multi-view Landmark Representation Approach with Application to GNSS-Visual-Inertial Odometry

Robotics 2025-08-08 v1 Systems and Control Systems and Control

Abstract

Invariant Extended Kalman Filter (IEKF) has been a significant technique in vision-aided sensor fusion. However, it usually suffers from high computational burden when jointly optimizing camera poses and the landmarks. To improve its efficiency and applicability for multi-sensor fusion, we present a multi-view pose-only estimation approach with its application to GNSS-Visual-Inertial Odometry (GVIO) in this paper. Our main contribution is deriving a visual measurement model which directly associates landmark representation with multiple camera poses and observations. Such a pose-only measurement is proven to be tightly-coupled between landmarks and poses, and maintain a perfect null space that is independent of estimated poses. Finally, we apply the proposed approach to a filter based GVIO with a novel feature management strategy. Both simulation tests and real-world experiments are conducted to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method in terms of efficiency and accuracy.

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@article{arxiv.2508.05368,
  title  = {A Multi-view Landmark Representation Approach with Application to GNSS-Visual-Inertial Odometry},
  author = {Tong Hua and Jiale Han and Wei Ouyang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.05368},
  year   = {2025}
}
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