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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

Ultra Wideband (UWB) is widely used to mitigate drift in visual-inertial odometry (VIO) systems. Consistency is crucial for ensuring the estimation accuracy of a UWBaided VIO system. An inconsistent estimator can degrade localization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Yizhi Zhou , Ziwei Kang , Jiawei Xia , Xuan Wang

This paper presents a cost-effective inertial pedestrian dead reckoning method for the bipedal robot in the GPS-denied environment. Each time when the inertial measurement unit (IMU) is on the stance foot, a stationary pseudo-measurement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Jingran Zhang , Zhengzhang Yan , Yiming Chen , Zeqiang He , Jiahao Chen

The present paper introduces a novel methodology for Unscented Kalman Filtering (UKF) on manifolds that extends previous work by the authors on UKF on Lie groups. Beyond filtering performance, the main interests of the approach are its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Martin Brossard , Axel Barrau , Silvere Bonnabel

Hybrid pipelines that combine deep learning with classical optimization have established themselves as the dominant approach to visual odometry (VO). By integrating neural network predictions with bundle adjustment, these models estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Vlardimir Yugay , Duy-Kien Nguyen , Theo Gevers , Cees G. M. Snoek , Martin R. Oswald

Ubiquitous positioning for pedestrian in adverse environment has served a long standing challenge. Despite dramatic progress made by Deep Learning, multi-sensor deep odometry systems yet pose a high computational cost and suffer from…

This paper introduces a geometric Quaternion-based Unscented Particle Filter for Visual-Inertial Navigation (QUPF-VIN) specifically designed for a vehicle operating with six degrees of freedom (6 DoF). The proposed QUPF-VIN technique is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Khashayar Ghanizadegan , Hashim A. Hashim

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

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

We introduce XIRVIO, a transformer-based Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) framework for monocular visual inertial odometry (VIO). By taking sequences of images and 6-DoF inertial measurements as inputs, XIRVIO's generator predicts pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Chit Yuen Lam , Ronald Clark , Basaran Bahadir Kocer

We propose a framework for tightly-coupled lidar inertial odometry via smoothing and mapping, LIO-SAM, that achieves highly accurate, real-time mobile robot trajectory estimation and map-building. LIO-SAM formulates lidar-inertial odometry…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Tixiao Shan , Brendan Englot , Drew Meyers , Wei Wang , Carlo Ratti , Daniela Rus

The main contribution of this paper is an invariant extended Kalman filter (EKF) for visual inertial navigation systems (VINS). It is demonstrated that the conventional EKF based VINS is not invariant under the stochastic unobservable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Teng Zhang , Kanzhi Wu , Daobilige Su , Shoudong Huang , Gamini Dissanayake

A common prerequisite for evaluating a visual(-inertial) odometry (VO/VIO) algorithm is to align the timestamps and the reference frame of its estimated trajectory with a reference ground-truth derived from a system of superior precision,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Zichao Shu , Lijun Li , Rui Wang , Zetao Chen

Integration of Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) methods into a modular control system designed for deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and teams of cooperating UAVs in real-world conditions are presented in this paper. Reliability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Jan Bednář , Matěj Petrlík , Kelen Cristiane Teixeira Vivaldini , Martin Saska

Autonomous platforms require accurate positioning to complete their tasks. To this end, a Kalman filter-based algorithms, such as the extended Kalman filter or invariant Kalman filter, utilizing inertial and external sensor fusion are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Barak Diker , Itzik Klein

Accurate global localization is crucial for autonomous navigation and planning. To this end, various GPS-aided Visual-Inertial Odometry (GPS-VIO) fusion algorithms are proposed in the literature. This paper presents a novel GPS-VIO system…

A novel relative localization approach for guidance of a micro-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) by a well-equipped aerial robot fusing Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) with Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is proposed in this paper.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Václav Pritzl , Matouš Vrba , Petr Štěpán , Martin Saska

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

Due to their resilience to motion blur and high robustness in low-light and high dynamic range conditions, event cameras are poised to become enabling sensors for vision-based exploration on future Mars helicopter missions. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Florian Mahlknecht , Daniel Gehrig , Jeremy Nash , Friedrich M. Rockenbauer , Benjamin Morrell , Jeff Delaune , Davide Scaramuzza

This paper presents an self-supervised deep learning network for monocular visual inertial odometry (named DeepVIO). DeepVIO provides absolute trajectory estimation by directly merging 2D optical flow feature (OFF) and Inertial Measurement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Liming Han , Yimin Lin , Guoguang Du , Shiguo Lian