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Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) is a critical component for robust ego-motion estimation, enabling foundational capabilities such as autonomous navigation in robotics and real-time 6-DoF tracking for augmented reality. Existing methods face…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Feiyang Pan , Shenghe Zheng , Chunyan Yin , Guangbin Dou

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

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

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

Reliable feature correspondence between frames is a critical step in visual odometry (VO) and visual simultaneous localization and mapping (V-SLAM) algorithms. In comparison with existing VO and V-SLAM algorithms, semi-direct visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Shing Yan Loo , Ali Jahani Amiri , Syamsiah Mashohor , Sai Hong Tang , Hong Zhang

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

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

Detection of moving objects is an essential capability in dealing with dynamic environments. Most moving object detection algorithms have been designed for color images without depth. For robotic navigation where real-time RGB-D data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Haram Kim , Pyojin Kim , H. Jin Kim

In this paper, we present iDVO (inertia-embedded deep visual odometry), a self-supervised learning based monocular visual odometry (VO) for road vehicles. When modelling the geometric consistency within adjacent frames, most deep VO methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Chengze Wang , Yuan Yuan , Qi Wang

State-of-the-art forward facing monocular visual-inertial odometry algorithms are often brittle in practice, especially whilst dealing with initialisation and motion in directions that render the state unobservable. In such cases having a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Bo Fu , Kumar Shaurya Shankar , Nathan Michael

We introduce ZeroVO, a novel visual odometry (VO) algorithm that achieves zero-shot generalization across diverse cameras and environments, overcoming limitations in existing methods that depend on predefined or static camera calibration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Lei Lai , Zekai Yin , Eshed Ohn-Bar

Visual motion estimation is a well-studied challenge in autonomous navigation. Recent work has focused on addressing multimotion estimation in highly dynamic environments. These environments not only comprise multiple, complex motions but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Kevin M. Judd , Jonathan D. Gammell

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 odometry is important for plenty of applications such as autonomous vehicles, and robot navigation. It is challenging to conduct visual odometry in textureless scenes or environments with sudden illumination changes where popular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Hui Zhao , Jianga Shang , Kai Liu , Chao Chen , Fuqiang Gu

We present DINO Patch Visual Odometry (DINO-VO), an end-to-end monocular visual odometry system with strong scene generalization. Current Visual Odometry (VO) systems often rely on heuristic feature extraction strategies, which can degrade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Qi Chen , Guanghao Li , Sijia Hu , Xin Gao , Junpeng Ma , Xiangyang Xue , Jian Pu

Traditional Visual Odometry (VO) and Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) methods rely on a 'pose-centric' paradigm, which computes absolute camera poses from the local map thus requires large-scale landmark maintenance and continuous map…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Sangheon Yang , Yeongin Yoon , Hong Mo Jung , Jongwoo Lim

This paper proposes an illumination-robust visual odometry (VO) system that incorporates both accelerated learning-based corner point algorithms and an extended line feature algorithm. To be robust to dynamic illumination, the proposed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Kuan Xu , Yuefan Hao , Shenghai Yuan , Chen Wang , Lihua Xie

A key task in embedded vision is visual odometry (VO), which estimates camera motion from visual sensors, and it is a core component in many embedded power-constrained systems, from autonomous robots to augmented and virtual reality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Alessandro Marchei , Lorenzo Lamberti , Daniele Palossi , Luca Benini

We present PVO, a novel panoptic visual odometry framework to achieve more comprehensive modeling of the scene motion, geometry, and panoptic segmentation information. Our PVO models visual odometry (VO) and video panoptic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Weicai Ye , Xinyue Lan , Shuo Chen , Yuhang Ming , Xingyuan Yu , Hujun Bao , Zhaopeng Cui , Guofeng Zhang