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Most learning-based methods estimate ego-motion by utilizing visual sensors, which suffer from dramatic lighting variations and textureless scenarios. In this paper, we incorporate sparse but accurate depth measurements obtained from lidars…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Bin Li , Mu Hu , Shuling Wang , Lianghao Wang , Xiaojin Gong

Visual Odometry (VO) is used in many applications including robotics and autonomous systems. However, traditional approaches based on feature matching are computationally expensive and do not directly address failure cases, instead relying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Nimet Kaygusuz , Oscar Mendez , Richard Bowden

Visual Odometry (VO) is a method to estimate self-motion of a mobile robot using visual sensors. Unlike odometry based on integrating differential measurements that can accumulate errors, such as inertial sensors or wheel encoders, visual…

This paper introduces a fully deep learning approach to monocular SLAM, which can perform simultaneous localization using a neural network for learning visual odometry (L-VO) and dense 3D mapping. Dense 2D flow and a depth image are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Cheng Zhao , Li Sun , Pulak Purkait , Tom Duckett , Rustam Stolkin

Recently, learning-based ego-motion estimation approaches have drawn strong interest from studies mostly focusing on visual perception. These groundbreaking works focus on unsupervised learning for odometry estimation but mostly for visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Younggun Cho , Giseop Kim , Ayoung Kim

Traditional monocular direct visual odometry (DVO) is one of the most famous methods to estimate the ego-motion of robots and map environments from images simultaneously. However, DVO heavily relies on high-quality images and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Chaoqiang Zhao , Yang Tang , Qiyu Sun , Athanasios V. Vasilakos

Successful visual navigation depends upon capturing images that contain sufficient useful information. In this letter, we explore a data-driven approach to account for environmental lighting changes, improving the quality of images for use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Justin Tomasi , Brandon Wagstaff , Steven L. Waslander , Jonathan Kelly

Recent visual odometry (VO) methods incorporating geometric algorithm into deep-learning architecture have shown outstanding performance on the challenging monocular VO task. Despite encouraging results are shown, previous methods ignore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Yijun Cao , Xianshi Zhang , Fuya Luo , Peng Peng , Yongjie Li

Recent advances in deep learning for edge detection and segmentation opens up a new path for semantic-edge-based ego-motion estimation. In this work, we propose a robust monocular visual odometry (VO) framework using category-aware semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Xiaolong Wu , Assia Benbihi , Antoine Richard , Cedric Pradalier

Learning-based visual odometry (VO) algorithms achieve remarkable performance on common static scenes, benefiting from high-capacity models and massive annotated data, but tend to fail in dynamic, populated environments. Semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Shihao Shen , Yilin Cai , Wenshan Wang , Sebastian Scherer

Visual odometry is an essential key for a localization module in SLAM systems. However, previous methods require tuning the system to adapt environment changes. In this paper, we propose a learning-based approach for frame-to-frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Joosung Lee , Sangwon Hwang , Kyungjae Lee , Woo Jin Kim , Junhyeop Lee , Tae-young Chung , Sangyoun Lee

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a popular approach to optimizing expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions. Despite the success of BO, its performance may decrease exponentially as the dimensionality increases. A common framework to tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Quoc-Anh Hoang Nguyen , The Hung Tran

This paper proposes an illumination-robust visual odometry (VO) system that incorporates both accelerated learning-based corner point algorithms and an extended line feature algorithm. To be robust to dynamic illumination, the proposed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Kuan Xu , Yuefan Hao , Shenghai Yuan , Chen Wang , Lihua Xie

Event-based cameras are bio-inspired sensors with pixels that independently and asynchronously respond to brightness changes at microsecond resolution, offering the potential to handle state estimation tasks involving motion blur and high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Sheng Zhong , Junkai Niu , Yi Zhou

We propose a self-supervised learning framework for visual odometry (VO) that incorporates correlation of consecutive frames and takes advantage of adversarial learning. Previous methods tackle self-supervised VO as a local structure from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Shunkai Li , Fei Xue , Xin Wang , Zike Yan , Hongbin Zha

Accurate, robust, and real-time LiDAR-based odometry (LO) is imperative for many applications like robot navigation, globally consistent 3D scene map reconstruction, or safe motion-planning. Though LiDAR sensor is known for its precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Sk Aziz Ali , Djamila Aouada , Gerd Reis , Didier Stricker

Hybrid pipelines that combine deep learning with classical optimization have established themselves as the dominant approach to visual odometry (VO). By integrating neural network predictions with bundle adjustment, these models estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Vlardimir Yugay , Duy-Kien Nguyen , Theo Gevers , Cees G. M. Snoek , Martin R. Oswald

Traditional monocular Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) systems struggle in low-texture environments where sparse visual features are insufficient for accurate pose estimation. To address this, dense Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Arda Alniak , Sinan Kalkan , Mustafa Mert Ankarali , Afsar Saranli , Abdullah Aydin Alatan

LiDAR odometry (LO) describes the task of finding an alignment of subsequent LiDAR point clouds. This alignment can be used to estimate the motion of the platform where the LiDAR sensor is mounted on. Currently, on the well-known KITTI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Philipp Adis , Nicolas Horst , Mathias Wien

We propose the MAC-VO, a novel learning-based stereo VO that leverages the learned metrics-aware matching uncertainty for dual purposes: selecting keypoint and weighing the residual in pose graph optimization. Compared to traditional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yuheng Qiu , Yutian Chen , Zihao Zhang , Wenshan Wang , Sebastian Scherer