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Visual Odometry (VO) is vital for the navigation of autonomous systems, providing accurate position and orientation estimates at reasonable costs. While traditional VO methods excel in some conditions, they struggle with challenges like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Siyu Chen , Kangcheng Liu , Chen Wang , Shenghai Yuan , Jianfei Yang , Lihua Xie

We present an unsupervised learning framework for the task of monocular depth and camera motion estimation from unstructured video sequences. We achieve this by simultaneously training depth and camera pose estimation networks using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Tinghui Zhou , Matthew Brown , Noah Snavely , David G. Lowe

In the last decade, supervised deep learning approaches have been extensively employed in visual odometry (VO) applications, which is not feasible in environments where labelled data is not abundant. On the other hand, unsupervised deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Yasin Almalioglu , Muhamad Risqi U. Saputra , Pedro P. B. de Gusmao , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

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

Traditional approaches for Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM) rely on low-level vision information for state estimation, such as handcrafted local features or the image gradient. While significant progress has been made…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Huaiyang Huang , Haoyang Ye , Yuxiang Sun , Lujia Wang , Ming Liu

Estimating relative camera poses from consecutive frames is a fundamental problem in visual odometry (VO) and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), where classic methods consisting of hand-crafted features and sampling-based outlier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 You-Yi Jau , Rui Zhu , Hao Su , Manmohan Chandraker

Traditional monocular Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) systems struggle in low-texture environments where sparse visual features are insufficient for accurate pose estimation. To address this, dense Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Arda Alniak , Sinan Kalkan , Mustafa Mert Ankarali , Afsar Saranli , Abdullah Aydin Alatan

Monocular visual odometry is a key technology in various autonomous systems. Traditional feature-based methods suffer from failures due to poor lighting, insufficient texture, and large motions. In contrast, recent learning-based dense SLAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Takayuki Kanai , Igor Vasiljevic , Vitor Guizilini , Kazuhiro Shintani

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 odometry (VO) aims to estimate camera poses from visual inputs -- a fundamental building block for many applications such as VR/AR and robotics. This work focuses on monocular RGB VO where the input is a monocular RGB video without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Junda Cheng , Zhipeng Cai , Zhaoxing Zhang , Wei Yin , Matthias Muller , Michael Paulitsch , Xin Yang

This paper studies monocular visual odometry (VO) problem. Most of existing VO algorithms are developed under a standard pipeline including feature extraction, feature matching, motion estimation, local optimisation, etc. Although some of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Sen Wang , Ronald Clark , Hongkai Wen , Niki Trigoni

The self-supervised learning of depth and pose from monocular sequences provides an attractive solution by using the photometric consistency of nearby frames as it depends much less on the ground-truth data. In this paper, we address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Tianwei Shen , Lei Zhou , Zixin Luo , Yao Yao , Shiwei Li , Jiahui Zhang , Tian Fang , Long Quan

Recent learning-based approaches, in which models are trained by single-view images have shown promising results for monocular 3D face reconstruction, but they suffer from the ill-posed face pose and depth ambiguity issue. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Jiaxiang Shang , Tianwei Shen , Shiwei Li , Lei Zhou , Mingmin Zhen , Tian Fang , Long Quan

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

This paper presents an end-to-end multi-modal learning approach for monocular Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO), which is specifically designed to exploit sensor complementarity in the light of sensor degradation scenarios. The proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Kashmira Shinde , Jongseok Lee , Matthias Humt , Aydin Sezgin , Rudolph Triebel

Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) is one of the most established state estimation methods for mobile platforms. However, when visual tracking fails, VIO algorithms quickly diverge due to rapid error accumulation during inertial data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Russell Buchanan , Varun Agrawal , Marco Camurri , Frank Dellaert , Maurice Fallon

Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is the pose estimation backbone for most AR/VR and autonomous robotic systems today, in both academia and industry. However, these systems are highly sensitive to the initialization of key parameters such as…

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

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

Building vehicles capable of operating without human supervision requires the determination of the agent's pose. Visual Odometry (VO) algorithms estimate the egomotion using only visual changes from the input images. The most recent VO…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Iury Cleveston , Esther L. Colombini