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Reliable localization is a fundamental requirement for multi-robot systems operating in GPS-denied environments. Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) provides lightweight and accurate motion estimation but suffers from cumulative drift in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Ziwei Kang , Yizhi Zhou

Autonomous robots often rely on monocular cameras for odometry estimation and navigation. However, the scale ambiguity problem presents a critical barrier to effective monocular visual odometry. In this paper, we present CodedVO, a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Sachin Shah , Naitri Rajyaguru , Chahat Deep Singh , Christopher Metzler , Yiannis Aloimonos

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

In recent years, deep learning-based approaches for visual-inertial odometry (VIO) have shown remarkable performance outperforming traditional geometric methods. Yet, all existing methods use both the visual and inertial measurements for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Mingyu Yang , Yu Chen , Hun-Seok Kim

We present HybVIO, a novel hybrid approach for combining filtering-based visual-inertial odometry (VIO) with optimization-based SLAM. The core of our method is highly robust, independent VIO with improved IMU bias modeling, outlier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Otto Seiskari , Pekka Rantalankila , Juho Kannala , Jerry Ylilammi , Esa Rahtu , Arno Solin

In this paper, we propose a novel robocentric formulation of the visual-inertial navigation system (VINS) within a sliding-window filtering framework and design an efficient, lightweight, robocentric visual-inertial odometry (R-VIO)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Zheng Huai , Guoquan Huang

In the future, extraterrestrial expeditions will not only be conducted by rovers but also by flying robots. The technical demonstration drone Ingenuity, that just landed on Mars, will mark the beginning of a new era of exploration…

This paper presents a novel method for visual-inertial odometry. The method is based on an information fusion framework employing low-cost IMU sensors and the monocular camera in a standard smartphone. We formulate a sequential inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Arno Solin , Santiago Cortes , Esa Rahtu , Juho Kannala

Odometry in adverse weather conditions, such as fog, rain, and snow, presents significant challenges, as traditional vision and LiDAR-based methods often suffer from degraded performance. Radar-Inertial Odometry (RIO) has emerged as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shuocheng Yang , Yueming Cao , Shengbo Eben Li , Jianqiang Wang , Shaobing Xu

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-inertial odometry (VIO) is a vital technique used in robotics, augmented reality, and autonomous vehicles. It combines visual and inertial measurements to accurately estimate position and orientation. Existing VIO methods assume a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Dan Solodar , Itzik Klein

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

This paper presents a fast lidar-inertial odometry (LIO) that is robust to aggressive motion. To achieve robust tracking in aggressive motion scenes, we exploit the continuous scanning property of lidar to adaptively divide the full scan…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Jun Liu , Yunzhou Zhang , Xiaoyu Zhao , Zhengnan He

Recently, the progress in the radar sensing technology consisting in the miniaturization of the packages and increase in measuring precision has drawn the interest of the robotics research community. Indeed, a crucial task enabling autonomy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jan Michalczyk

Monocular visual inertial odometry (VIO) has facilitated a wide range of real-time motion tracking applications, thanks to the small size of the sensor suite and low power consumption. To successfully bootstrap VIO algorithms, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Junlin Song , Antoine Richard , Miguel Olivares-Mendez

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

Vision-based odometry has been widely adopted in autonomous driving owing to its low cost and lightweight setup; however, its performance often degrades in complex outdoor urban environments. To address these challenges, we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zhixin Zhang , Liang Zhao , Pawel Ladosz

We introduce OpenVO, a novel framework for Open-world Visual Odometry (VO) with temporal awareness under limited input conditions. OpenVO effectively estimates real-world-scale ego-motion from monocular dashcam footage with varying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Phuc D. A. Nguyen , Anh N. Nhu , Ming C. Lin

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

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR)-inertial odometry (LIO) enables accurate localization and mapping for autonomous navigation in various scenes. However, its performance remains sensitive to variations in spatial scale, which refers to…