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The emergence of visual foundation models has revolutionized visual odometry~(VO) and SLAM, enabling pose estimation and dense reconstruction within a single feed-forward network. However, unlike traditional pipelines that leverage keyframe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Weichen Dai , Wenhan Su , Da Kong , Yuhang Ming , Wanzeng Kong

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

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

The increasing demand for autonomous vehicles has created a need for robust navigation systems that can also operate effectively in adverse weather conditions. Visual odometry is a technique used in these navigation systems, enabling the…

We propose XVO, a semi-supervised learning method for training generalized monocular Visual Odometry (VO) models with robust off-the-self operation across diverse datasets and settings. In contrast to standard monocular VO approaches which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Lei Lai , Zhongkai Shangguan , Jimuyang Zhang , Eshed Ohn-Bar

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

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

Odometry is of key importance for localization in the absence of a map. There is considerable work in the area of visual odometry (VO), and recent advances in deep learning have brought novel approaches to VO, which directly learn salient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Wei Wang , Muhamad Risqi U. Saputra , Peijun Zhao , Pedro Gusmao , Bo Yang , Changhao Chen , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

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

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

Despite learning-based visual odometry (VO) has shown impressive results in recent years, the pretrained networks may easily collapse in unseen environments. The large domain gap between training and testing data makes them difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Shunkai Li , Xin Wu , Yingdian Cao , Hongbin Zha

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

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

Self-supervised VO methods have shown great success in jointly estimating camera pose and depth from videos. However, like most data-driven methods, existing VO networks suffer from a notable decrease in performance when confronted with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Shunkai Li , Xin Wang , Yingdian Cao , Fei Xue , Zike Yan , Hongbin Zha

Learning-based visual odometry (VO) algorithms achieve remarkable performance on common static scenes, benefiting from high-capacity models and massive annotated data, but tend to fail in dynamic, populated environments. Semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Shihao Shen , Yilin Cai , Wenshan Wang , Sebastian Scherer

Many model-based Visual Odometry (VO) algorithms have been proposed in the past decade, often restricted to the type of camera optics, or the underlying motion manifold observed. We envision robots to be able to learn and perform these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Sudeep Pillai , John J. Leonard

In this study, we address the critical challenge of balancing speed and accuracy while maintaining interpretablity in visual odometry (VO) systems, a pivotal aspect in the field of autonomous navigation and robotics. Traditional VO systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Habib Boloorchi Tabrizi , Christopher Crick

Most previous learning-based visual odometry (VO) methods take VO as a pure tracking problem. In contrast, we present a VO framework by incorporating two additional components called Memory and Refining. The Memory component preserves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Fei Xue , Xin Wang , Shunkai Li , Qiuyuan Wang , Junqiu Wang , 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

The Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) problem addresses the possibility of a robot to localize itself in an unknown environment and simultaneously build a consistent map of this environment. Recently, cameras have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Hudson M. S. Bruno , Esther L. Colombini