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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

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

Monocular visual odometry (VO) has attracted extensive research attention by providing real-time vehicle motion from cost-effective camera images. However, state-of-the-art optimization-based monocular VO methods suffer from the scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Sen Zhang , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao

This paper introduces VisionPAD, a novel self-supervised pre-training paradigm designed for vision-centric algorithms in autonomous driving. In contrast to previous approaches that employ neural rendering with explicit depth supervision,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Haiming Zhang , Wending Zhou , Yiyao Zhu , Xu Yan , Jiantao Gao , Dongfeng Bai , Yingjie Cai , Bingbing Liu , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

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

In recent years, unsupervised deep learning approaches have received significant attention to estimate the depth and visual odometry (VO) from unlabelled monocular image sequences. However, their performance is limited in challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Yasin Almalioglu , Angel Santamaria-Navarro , Benjamin Morrell , Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi

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

Monocular visual odometry (VO) is a fundamental computer vision problem with applications in autonomous navigation, augmented reality and more. While deep learning-based methods have recently shown superior accuracy compared to traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Dominik Kuczkowski , Laura Ruotsalainen

We propose D3VO as a novel framework for monocular visual odometry that exploits deep networks on three levels -- deep depth, pose and uncertainty estimation. We first propose a novel self-supervised monocular depth estimation network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Nan Yang , Lukas von Stumberg , Rui Wang , Daniel Cremers

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 robotic navigation systems have gained extensive research attention and made significant progress. However, the diversity of open-world scenarios poses a major challenge for the generalization of such systems to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Xingwu Ji , Haochen Niu , Dexin Duan , Rendong Ying , Fei Wen , Peilin Liu

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

Resource-constrained autonomous robots rely on sparse direct and semi-direct visual-(inertial)-odometry (VO) pipelines, as they provide a favorable tradeoff between accuracy, robustness, and computational cost. However, the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Simone Nascivera , Leonard Bauersfeld , Jeff Delaune , Davide Scaramuzza

This paper proposes a self-supervised monocular image-to-depth prediction framework that is trained with an end-to-end photometric loss that handles not only 6-DOF camera motion but also 6-DOF moving object instances. Self-supervision is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Houssem Boulahbal , Adrian Voicila , Andrew Comport

We proposed an end-to-end deep learning-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system following conventional visual odometry (VO) pipelines. The proposed method completes the SLAM framework by including tracking, mapping, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Youngji Kim , Ayoung Kim

Depth and ego-motion estimations are essential for the localization and navigation of autonomous robots and autonomous driving. Recent studies make it possible to learn the per-pixel depth and ego-motion from the unlabeled monocular video.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Guangming Wang , Jiquan Zhong , Shijie Zhao , Wenhua Wu , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

Estimating the camera's pose given images from a single camera is a traditional task in mobile robots and autonomous vehicles. This problem is called monocular visual odometry and often relies on geometric approaches that require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 André O. Françani , Marcos R. O. A. Maximo

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

Detecting and matching robust viewpoint-invariant keypoints is critical for visual SLAM and Structure-from-Motion. State-of-the-art learning-based methods generate training samples via homography adaptation to create 2D synthetic views with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Jiexiong Tang , Rares Ambrus , Vitor Guizilini , Sudeep Pillai , Hanme Kim , Patric Jensfelt , Adrien Gaidon

The technology for Visual Odometry (VO) that estimates the position and orientation of the moving object through analyzing the image sequences captured by on-board cameras, has been well investigated with the rising interest in autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Ran Zhu , Mingkun Yang , Wang Liu , Rujun Song , Bo Yan , Zhuoling Xiao