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Current approaches for visual-inertial odometry (VIO) are able to attain highly accurate state estimation via nonlinear optimization. However, real-time optimization quickly becomes infeasible as the trajectory grows over time, this problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Christian Forster , Luca Carlone , Frank Dellaert , Davide Scaramuzza

Visual odometry and SLAM methods have a large variety of applications in domains such as augmented reality or robotics. Complementing vision sensors with inertial measurements tremendously improves tracking accuracy and robustness, and thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 David Schubert , Thore Goll , Nikolaus Demmel , Vladyslav Usenko , Jörg Stückler , Daniel Cremers

Estimating motion from images is a well-studied problem in computer vision and robotics. Previous work has developed techniques to estimate the motion of a moving camera in a largely static environment (e.g., visual odometry) and to segment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Kevin M. Judd , Jonathan D. Gammell , Paul Newman

To achieve accurate and robust pose estimation in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) task, multi-sensor fusion is proven to be an effective solution and thus provides great potential in robotic applications. This paper proposes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Chunran Zheng , Qingyan Zhu , Wei Xu , Xiyuan Liu , Qizhi Guo , Fu Zhang

It is typically challenging for visual or visual-inertial odometry systems to handle the problems of dynamic scenes and pure rotation. In this work, we design a novel visual-inertial odometry (VIO) system called RD-VIO to handle both of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Jinyu Li , Xiaokun Pan , Gan Huang , Ziyang Zhang , Nan Wang , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang

Modern visual-inertial navigation systems (VINS) are faced with a critical challenge in real-world deployment: they need to operate reliably and robustly in highly dynamic environments. Current best solutions merely filter dynamic objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Karnik Ram , Chaitanya Kharyal , Sudarshan S. Harithas , K. Madhava Krishna

LiDAR-inertial odometry (LIO), which fuses complementary information of a LiDAR and an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), is an attractive solution for state estimation. In LIO, both pose and velocity are regarded as state variables that need…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Zikang Yuan , Fengtian Lang , Tianle Xu , Xin Yang

In the field of multi-sensor fusion for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), monocular cameras and IMUs are widely used to build simple and effective visual-inertial systems. However, limited research has explored the integration…

PointGoal navigation in indoor environment is a fundamental task for personal robots to navigate to a specified point. Recent studies solved this PointGoal navigation task with near-perfect success rate in photo-realistically simulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Yijun Cao , Xianshi Zhang , Fuya Luo , Chuan Lin , Yongjie Li

Extended Reality (XR) systems deployed in industrial and operational settings rely on Visual--Inertial Odometry (VIO) for continuous six-degree-of-freedom pose tracking, yet these environments often involve sensing conditions that deviate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Sourya Saha , Md. Nurul Absur

In this paper, we propose a probabilistic continuous-time visual-inertial odometry (VIO) for rolling shutter cameras. The continuous-time trajectory formulation naturally facilitates the fusion of asynchronized high-frequency IMU data and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Xiaolei Lang , Jiajun Lv , Jianxin Huang , Yukai Ma , Yong Liu , Xingxing Zuo

A fundamental challenge in robust visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is to dynamically assess the reliability of sensor measurements. This assessment is crucial for properly weighting the contribution of each measurement to the state estimate.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Seungwon Choi , Donggyu Park , Seo-Yeon Hwang , Tae-Wan Kim

Industrial facilities often require periodic visual inspections of key installations. Examining these points of interest is time consuming, potentially hazardous or require special equipment to reach. MAVs are ideal platforms to automate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Marius Fehr , Thomas Schneider , Marcin Dymczyk , Jürgen Sturm , Roland Siegwart

Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) supports immersive Virtual Reality (VR) by fusing camera and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) data for real-time pose. However, current trend of offloading VIO to edge servers can lead server-side threat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Soruya Saha , Md Nurul Absur , Saptarshi Debroy

Monocular visual-inertial odometry (VIO) cannot recover metric scale from vision alone; scale must be resolved through inertial measurements. We present a trajectory-dependent observability analysis showing that translational acceleration,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Hadush Hailu , Bruk Gebregziabher

Efficiency and robustness are the essential criteria for the visual-inertial odometry (VIO) system. To process massive visual data, the high cost on CPU resources and computation latency limits VIO's possibility in integration with other…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Yao He , Huai Yu , Wen Yang , Sebastian Scherer

Visual Odometry (VO) is crucial for autonomous robotic navigation, especially in GPS-denied environments like planetary terrains. To improve robustness, recent model-based VO systems have begun combining standard and event-based cameras.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Roberto Pellerito , Marco Cannici , Daniel Gehrig , Joris Belhadj , Olivier Dubois-Matra , Massimo Casasco , Davide Scaramuzza

Commercial visual-inertial odometry (VIO) systems have been gaining attention as cost-effective, off-the-shelf six degrees of freedom (6-DoF) ego-motion tracking methods for estimating accurate and consistent camera pose data, in addition…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Jungha Kim , Minkyeong Song , Yeoeun Lee , Moonkyeong Jung , Pyojin Kim

This paper addresses the problem of Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) for rigid body systems evolving in three-dimensional space. We introduce a novel matrix Lie group structure, denoted SE_{3+n}(3), that unifies the pose, gravity, linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Mouaad Boughellaba , Abdelhamid Tayebi , James R. Forbes , Soulaimane Berkane

Effectively localizing an agent in a realistic, noisy setting is crucial for many embodied vision tasks. Visual Odometry (VO) is a practical substitute for unreliable GPS and compass sensors, especially in indoor environments. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Marius Memmel , Roman Bachmann , Amir Zamir