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Visual Odometry (VO) is one of the fundamental tasks in computer vision for robotics. However, its performance is deeply affected by High Dynamic Range (HDR) scenes, omnipresent outdoor. While new Automatic-Exposure (AE) approaches to…

When humans observe a physical system, they can easily locate objects, understand their interactions, and anticipate future behavior, even in settings with complicated and previously unseen interactions. For computers, however, learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Jannik Kossen , Karl Stelzner , Marcel Hussing , Claas Voelcker , Kristian Kersting

The Vision Transformer (ViT) architecture has become widely recognized in computer vision, leveraging its self-attention mechanism to achieve remarkable success across various tasks. Despite its strengths, ViT's optimization remains…

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Visual place recognition methods struggle with occlusions and partial visual overlaps. We propose a novel visual place recognition approach based on overlap prediction, called VOP, shifting from traditional reliance on global image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Tong Wei , Philipp Lindenberger , Jiri Matas , Daniel Barath

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

We present a coupled Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) method that improves the accuracy and robustness of the probabilistic inferences on represented data. The new method models the dependency between input feature vectors (images) and weighs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Shichen Cao , Jingjing Li , Kenric P. Nelson , Mark A. Kon

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

Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is fundamental to video understanding. Transformer-based methods show significant performance improvement on semi-supervised VOS. However, existing work faces challenges segmenting visually similar objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Ye Yu , Jialin Yuan , Gaurav Mittal , Li Fuxin , Mei Chen

Video 3D human pose estimation aims to localize the 3D coordinates of human joints from videos. Recent transformer-based approaches focus on capturing the spatiotemporal information from sequential 2D poses, which cannot model the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Zhongwei Qiu , Qiansheng Yang , Jian Wang , Dongmei Fu

In this paper we propose a framework for integrating map-based relocalization into online direct visual odometry. To achieve map-based relocalization for direct methods, we integrate image features into Direct Sparse Odometry (DSO) and rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Mariia Gladkova , Rui Wang , Niclas Zeller , Daniel Cremers

Direct methods for event-based visual odometry solve the mapping and camera pose tracking sub-problems by establishing implicit data association in a way that the generative model of events is exploited. The main bottlenecks faced by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Junkai Niu , Sheng Zhong , Yi Zhou

Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) representation offers a metric-scaled planar workspace, facilitating the simplification of 6-DoF ego-motion to a more robust 3-DoF model for monocular visual odometry (MVO) in intelligent transportation systems.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yufei Wei , Wangtao Lu , Sha Lu , Chenxiao Hu , Fuzhang Han , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

For ego-motion estimation, the feature representation of the scenes is crucial. Previous methods indicate that both the low-level and semantic feature-based methods can achieve promising results. Therefore, the incorporation of hierarchical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Xiaochuan Yin , Chengju Liu

Multi-view 3D geometry networks offer a powerful prior but are prohibitively slow for real-time applications. We propose a novel way to adapt them for online use, enabling real-time 6-DoF pose tracking and online reconstruction of objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Marwan Taher , Ignacio Alzugaray , Kirill Mazur , Xin Kong , Andrew J. Davison

Monocular visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is a critical problem in robotics and autonomous driving. Traditional methods solve this problem based on filtering or optimization. While being fully interpretable, they rely on manual interference…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Zexi Chen , Haozhe Du , Xuecheng Xu , Rong Xiong , Yiyi Liao , Yue Wang

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

Sparse query-based paradigms have achieved significant success in multi-view 3D detection for autonomous vehicles. Current research faces challenges in balancing between enlarging receptive fields and reducing interference when aggregating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Jiasen Wang , Zhenglin Li , Ke Sun , Xianyuan Liu , Yang Zhou

To date, top-performing optical flow estimation methods only take pairs of consecutive frames into account. While elegant and appealing, the idea of using more than two frames has not yet produced state-of-the-art results. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Zhile Ren , Orazio Gallo , Deqing Sun , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Erik B. Sudderth , Jan Kautz

Deformable image registration plays a crucial role in medical imaging, aiding in disease diagnosis and image-guided interventions. Traditional iterative methods are slow, while deep learning (DL) accelerates solutions but faces usability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Haiqiao Wang , Zhuoyuan Wang , Dong Ni , Yi Wang

This work proposes a novel deep network architecture to solve the camera Ego-Motion estimation problem. A motion estimation network generally learns features similar to Optical Flow (OF) fields starting from sequences of images. This OF can…

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