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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

In this work, we propose a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system using a monocular camera and Ultra-wideband (UWB) sensors. Our system, referred to as VRSLAM, is a multi-stage framework that leverages the strengths and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Thien Hoang Nguyen , Shenghai Yuan , Lihua Xie

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

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

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

In this paper we present an extension of Direct Sparse Odometry (DSO) to a monocular visual SLAM system with loop closure detection and pose-graph optimization (LDSO). As a direct technique, DSO can utilize any image pixel with sufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Xiang Gao , Rui Wang , Nikolaus Demmel , Daniel Cremers

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

Monocular omnidirectional visual odometry (OVO) systems leverage 360-degree cameras to overcome field-of-view limitations of perspective VO systems. However, existing methods, reliant on handcrafted features or photometric objectives, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Xiaopeng Guo , Yinzhe Xu , Huajian Huang , Sai-Kit Yeung

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

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

This work presents UNO, a unified monocular visual odometry framework that enables robust and adaptable pose estimation across diverse environments, platforms, and motion patterns. Unlike traditional methods that rely on deployment-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Wentao Zhao , Yihe Niu , Yanbo Wang , Tianchen Deng , Shenghai Yuan , Zhenli Wang , Rui Guo , Jingchuan Wang

We propose Deep Patch Visual Odometry (DPVO), a new deep learning system for monocular Visual Odometry (VO). DPVO uses a novel recurrent network architecture designed for tracking image patches across time. Recent approaches to VO have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Zachary Teed , Lahav Lipson , Jia Deng

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

Despite learning based methods showing promising results in single view depth estimation and visual odometry, most existing approaches treat the tasks in a supervised manner. Recent approaches to single view depth estimation explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Huangying Zhan , Ravi Garg , Chamara Saroj Weerasekera , Kejie Li , Harsh Agarwal , Ian Reid

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

We propose a novel semi-direct approach for monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) that combines the complementary strengths of direct and feature-based methods. The proposed pipeline loosely couples direct odometry and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Seong Hun Lee , Javier Civera

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

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

Recent learning-based LiDAR odometry methods have demonstrated their competitiveness. However, most methods still face two substantial challenges: 1) the 2D projection representation of LiDAR data cannot effectively encode 3D structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Yan Xu , Zhaoyang Huang , Kwan-Yee Lin , Xinge Zhu , Jianping Shi , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang , Hongsheng Li

We present a self-supervised approach to ignoring "distractors" in camera images for the purposes of robustly estimating vehicle motion in cluttered urban environments. We leverage offline multi-session mapping approaches to automatically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Dan Barnes , Will Maddern , Geoffrey Pascoe , Ingmar Posner