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We present a direct visual-inertial odometry (VIO) method which estimates the motion of the sensor setup and sparse 3D geometry of the environment based on measurements from a rolling-shutter camera and an inertial measurement unit (IMU).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 David Schubert , Nikolaus Demmel , Lukas von Stumberg , Vladyslav Usenko , Daniel Cremers

Implementing dynamic locomotion behaviors on legged robots requires a high-quality state estimation module. Especially when the motion includes flight phases, state-of-the-art approaches fail to produce reliable estimation of the robot…

Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) is an essential component of modern Augmented Reality (AR) applications. However, VIO only tracks the relative pose of the device, leading to drift over time. Absolute pose estimation methods infer the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Changkun Liu , Yukun Zhao , Tristan Braud

Monocular visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is a low-cost solution to provide high-accuracy, low-drifting pose estimation. However, it has been meeting challenges in vehicular scenarios due to limited dynamics and lack of stable features. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yuxuan Zhou , Xingxing Li , Shengyu Li , Xuanbin Wang , Zhiheng Shen

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

Event cameras are motion-activated sensors that capture pixel-level illumination changes instead of the intensity image with a fixed frame rate. Compared with the standard cameras, it can provide reliable visual perception during high-speed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Weipeng Guan , Peiyu Chen , Yuhan Xie , Peng Lu

We propose a continuous-time spline-based formulation for visual-inertial odometry (VIO). Specifically, we model the poses as a cubic spline, whose temporal derivatives are used to synthesize linear acceleration and angular velocity, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Jiawei Mo , Junaed Sattar

In this paper, we analyze the observability of the visual-inertial odometry (VIO) using stereo cameras with a velocity-control based kinematic motion model. Previous work shows that in general case the global position and yaw are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Haolong Li , Joerg Stueckler

A novel relative localization approach for guidance of a micro-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) by a well-equipped aerial robot fusing Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) with Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is proposed in this paper.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Václav Pritzl , Matouš Vrba , Petr Štěpán , Martin Saska

This paper presents a novel approach to Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO), focusing on the initialization and feature matching modules. Existing methods for initialization often suffer from either poor stability in visual Structure from Motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Shangjin Zhai , Nan Wang , Xiaomeng Wang , Danpeng Chen , Weijian Xie , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang

Inertial odometry is an attractive solution to the problem of state estimation for agile quadrotor flight. It is inexpensive, lightweight, and it is not affected by perceptual degradation. However, only relying on the integration of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Giovanni Cioffi , Leonard Bauersfeld , Elia Kaufmann , Davide Scaramuzza

Inertial Odometry (IO) has gained attention in quadrotor applications due to its sole reliance on inertial measurement units (IMUs), attributed to its lightweight design, low cost, and robust performance across diverse environments.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiahao Cui , Feng Yu , Linzuo Zhang , Yu Hu , Danping Zou

Due to the advantages of high computational efficiency and small memory requirements, filter-based visual inertial odometry (VIO) has a good application prospect in miniaturized and payload-constrained embedded systems. However, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Xueyu Du , Lilian Zhang , Chengjun Ji , Xinchan Luo , Huaiyi Zhang , Maosong Wang , Wenqi Wu , Jun Mao

State-of-the-art forward facing monocular visual-inertial odometry algorithms are often brittle in practice, especially whilst dealing with initialisation and motion in directions that render the state unobservable. In such cases having a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Bo Fu , Kumar Shaurya Shankar , Nathan Michael

Cameras and inertial measurement units are complementary sensors for ego-motion estimation and environment mapping. Their combination makes visual-inertial odometry (VIO) systems more accurate and robust. For globally consistent mapping,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Vladyslav Usenko , Nikolaus Demmel , David Schubert , Jörg Stückler , Daniel Cremers

Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is widely used for state estimation in autonomous micro aerial vehicles using onboard sensors. Current methods improve VIO by incorporating a model of the translational vehicle dynamics, yet their performance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Giovanni Cioffi , Leonard Bauersfeld , Davide Scaramuzza

Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is widely used in various fields, such as robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles. However, real-world scenes often feature dynamic objects, compromising the accuracy of VIO. The diversity and partial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Rui Zhou , Jingbin Liu , Junbin Xie , Jianyu Zhang , Yingze Hu , Jiele Zhao

Radar-Inertial Odometry (RIO) has emerged as a robust alternative to vision- and LiDAR-based odometry in challenging conditions such as low light, fog, featureless environments, or in adverse weather. However, many existing RIO approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Vlaho-Josip Štironja , Luka Petrović , Juraj Peršić , Ivan Marković , Ivan Petrović

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

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