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Accurately perceiving location and scene is crucial for autonomous driving and mobile robots. Recent advances in deep learning have made it possible to learn egomotion and depth from monocular images in a self-supervised manner, without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Hao Qu , Lilian Zhang , Xiaoping Hu , Xiaofeng He , Xianfei Pan , Changhao Chen

The increasing demand for autonomous vehicles has created a need for robust navigation systems that can also operate effectively in adverse weather conditions. Visual odometry is a technique used in these navigation systems, enabling the…

Building vehicles capable of operating without human supervision requires the determination of the agent's pose. Visual Odometry (VO) algorithms estimate the egomotion using only visual changes from the input images. The most recent VO…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Iury Cleveston , Esther L. Colombini

Event cameras offer the exciting possibility of tracking the camera's pose during high-speed motion and in adverse lighting conditions. Despite this promise, existing event-based monocular visual odometry (VO) approaches demonstrate limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Simon Klenk , Marvin Motzet , Lukas Koestler , Daniel Cremers

Ego-motion estimation is vital for drones when flying in GPS-denied environments. Vision-based methods struggle when flight speed increases and close-by objects lead to difficult visual conditions with considerable motion blur and large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Stavrow A. Bahnam , Christophe De Wagter , Guido C. H. E. de Croon

SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) and Odometry are important systems for estimating the position of mobile devices, such as robots and cars, utilizing one or more sensors. Particularly in camera-based SLAM or Odometry,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Sanghyun Park , Soohee Han

Visual motion estimation is an integral and well-studied challenge in autonomous navigation. Recent work has focused on addressing multimotion estimation, which is especially challenging in highly dynamic environments. Such environments not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Kevin M. Judd , Jonathan D. Gammell

Unsupervised Learning based monocular visual odometry (VO) has lately drawn significant attention for its potential in label-free leaning ability and robustness to camera parameters and environmental variations. However, partially due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Yang Li , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada

Multi-view geometry-based methods dominate the last few decades in monocular Visual Odometry for their superior performance, while they have been vulnerable to dynamic and low-texture scenes. More importantly, monocular methods suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Huangying Zhan , Chamara Saroj Weerasekera , Jia-Wang Bian , Ravi Garg , Ian Reid

Despite learning-based visual odometry (VO) has shown impressive results in recent years, the pretrained networks may easily collapse in unseen environments. The large domain gap between training and testing data makes them difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Shunkai Li , Xin Wu , Yingdian Cao , Hongbin Zha

Visual Odometry (VO) is vital for the navigation of autonomous systems, providing accurate position and orientation estimates at reasonable costs. While traditional VO methods excel in some conditions, they struggle with challenges like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Siyu Chen , Kangcheng Liu , Chen Wang , Shenghai Yuan , Jianfei Yang , Lihua Xie

Robust and reliable ego-motion is a key component of most autonomous mobile systems. Many odometry estimation methods have been developed using different sensors such as cameras or LiDARs. In this work, we present a resilient approach that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Andrzej Reinke , Xieyuanli Chen , Cyrill Stachniss

We propose a novel deep visual odometry (VO) method that considers global information by selecting memory and refining poses. Existing learning-based methods take the VO task as a pure tracking problem via recovering camera poses from image…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Fei Xue , Xin Wang , Junqiu Wang , Hongbin Zha

In this paper, we present a multi-camera visual odometry (VO) system for an autonomous vehicle. Our system mainly consists of a virtual LiDAR and a pose tracker. We use a perspective transformation method to synthesize a surround-view image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Zhenzhen Xiang , Jingrui Yu , Jie Li , Jianbo Su

Unsupervised learning of depth and ego-motion from unlabelled monocular videos has recently drawn great attention, which avoids the use of expensive ground truth in the supervised one. It achieves this by using the photometric errors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Hualie Jiang , Laiyan Ding , Zhenglong Sun , Rui Huang

Monocular visual odometry (MVO) is vital in autonomous navigation and robotics, providing a cost-effective and flexible motion tracking solution, but the inherent scale ambiguity in monocular setups often leads to cumulative errors over…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yufei Wei , Sha Lu , Fuzhang Han , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

This paper presents an self-supervised deep learning network for monocular visual inertial odometry (named DeepVIO). DeepVIO provides absolute trajectory estimation by directly merging 2D optical flow feature (OFF) and Inertial Measurement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Liming Han , Yimin Lin , Guoguang Du , Shiguo Lian

Visual Odometry (VO) is fundamental to autonomous navigation, robotics, and augmented reality, with unsupervised approaches eliminating the need for expensive ground-truth labels. However, these methods struggle when dynamic objects violate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Jingchao Xie , Oussema Dhaouadi , Weirong Chen , Johannes Meier , Jacques Kaiser , Daniel Cremers

Visual odometry (VO) aims to estimate camera poses from visual inputs -- a fundamental building block for many applications such as VR/AR and robotics. This work focuses on monocular RGB VO where the input is a monocular RGB video without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Junda Cheng , Zhipeng Cai , Zhaoxing Zhang , Wei Yin , Matthias Muller , Michael Paulitsch , Xin Yang

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…