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Monocular Visual Odometry (MVO) provides a cost-effective, real-time positioning solution for autonomous vehicles. However, MVO systems face the common issue of lacking inherent scale information from monocular cameras. Traditional methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yufei Wei , Sha Lu , Wangtao Lu , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) systems traditionally rely on filtering or optimization-based techniques for egomotion estimation. While these methods are accurate under nominal conditions, they are prone to failure during severe…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Brandon Wagstaff , Emmett Wise , Jonathan Kelly

Learning-based monocular visual odometry (VO) poses robustness, generalization, and efficiency challenges in robotics. Recent advances in visual foundation models, such as DINOv2, have improved robustness and generalization in various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Maulana Bisyir Azhari , David Hyunchul Shim

Mobile robots rely on odometry to navigate through areas where localization fails. Visual odometry (VO) is a common solution for obtaining robust and consistent relative motion estimates of the vehicle frame. Contrarily, Global Positioning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Benjamin Congram , Timothy D. Barfoot

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

Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) has demonstrated remarkable success due to its low-cost and complementary sensors. However, existing VIO methods lack the generalization ability to adjust to different environments and sensor attributes. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Youqi Pan , Wugen Zhou , Yingdian Cao , Hongbin Zha

Making multi-camera visual SLAM systems easier to set up and more robust to the environment is attractive for vision robots. Existing monocular and binocular vision SLAM systems have narrow sensing Field-of-View (FoV), resulting in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Huai Yu , Junhao Wang , Yao He , Wen Yang , Gui-Song Xia

Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) is of great interest due the ubiquity of devices equipped with both a monocular camera and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). Methods based on the extended Kalman Filter remain popular in VIO due to their low…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Pieter van Goor , Robert Mahony

We introduce a novel monocular visual odometry (VO) system, NeRF-VO, that integrates learning-based sparse visual odometry for low-latency camera tracking and a neural radiance scene representation for fine-detailed dense reconstruction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Jens Naumann , Binbin Xu , Stefan Leutenegger , Xingxing Zuo

Enhancing visual odometry by exploiting sparse depth measurements from LiDAR is a promising solution for improving tracking accuracy of an odometry. Most existing works utilize a monocular pinhole camera, yet could suffer from poor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Qirui Hu , Zikang Yuan , Tianle Xu , Xiaoxiang Wang , Jinni Geng , Xin Yang

Visual-inertial-odometry has attracted extensive attention in the field of autonomous driving and robotics. The size of Field of View (FoV) plays an important role in Visual-Odometry (VO) and Visual-Inertial-Odometry (VIO), as a large FoV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Ze Wang , Kailun Yang , Hao Shi , Peng Li , Fei Gao , Kaiwei Wang

We present a multi-camera visual-inertial odometry system based on factor graph optimization which estimates motion by using all cameras simultaneously while retaining a fixed overall feature budget. We focus on motion tracking in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Lintong Zhang , David Wisth , Marco Camurri , Maurice Fallon

Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) is a widely used computer vision method that determines an agent's movement through a camera and an IMU sensor. This paper presents an efficient and accurate VIO pipeline optimized for applications on micro-…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Jonas Kühne , Christian Vogt , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

The paper presents a direct visual-inertial odometry system. In particular, a tightly coupled nonlinear optimization based method is proposed by integrating the recent advances in direct dense tracking and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Wenju Xu , Dongkyu Choi , Guanghui Wang

Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) is the problem of estimating a robot's trajectory by combining information from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and a camera, and is of great interest to the robotics community. This paper develops a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Pieter van Goor , Robert Mahony

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

In this paper, we present iDVO (inertia-embedded deep visual odometry), a self-supervised learning based monocular visual odometry (VO) for road vehicles. When modelling the geometric consistency within adjacent frames, most deep VO methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Chengze Wang , Yuan Yuan , Qi Wang

Visual odometry (VO) is essential for enabling accurate point-goal navigation of embodied agents in indoor environments where GPS and compass sensors are unreliable and inaccurate. However, traditional VO methods face challenges in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Sayan Paul , Ruddra dev Roychoudhury , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

Deep learning techniques have significantly advanced in providing accurate visual odometry solutions by leveraging large datasets. However, generating uncertainty estimates for these methods remains a challenge. Traditional sensor fusion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jagatpreet Singh Nir , Dennis Giaya , Hanumant Singh

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