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Visual-Inertial Odometry(VIO), which is critical to mobile robot navigation, uses cameras with a large number of pixels. Capturing and processing camera images requires significant resources. This work presents a minimalist approach to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Francesco Pasti , Jeremy Klotz , Nicola Bellotto , Shree K. Nayar

Self-supervised VO methods have shown great success in jointly estimating camera pose and depth from videos. However, like most data-driven methods, existing VO networks suffer from a notable decrease in performance when confronted with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Shunkai Li , Xin Wang , Yingdian Cao , Fei Xue , Zike Yan , Hongbin Zha

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for efficiently estimating the 6-Degree-of-Freedom (DoF) robot pose with a decoupled, non-iterative method that capitalizes on overlapping planar elements. Conventional RGB-D visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Zheng Yang , Kuan Xu , Shenghai Yuan , Lihua Xie

Visual Autoregressive (VAR) has emerged as a promising approach in image generation, offering competitive potential and performance comparable to diffusion-based models. However, current AR-based visual generation models require substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Rui Xie , Tianchen Zhao , Zhihang Yuan , Rui Wan , Wenxi Gao , Zhenhua Zhu , Xuefei Ning , Yu Wang

The increasing demand for autonomous vehicles has created a need for robust navigation systems that can also operate effectively in adverse weather conditions. Visual odometry is a technique used in these navigation systems, enabling the…

Visual odometry estimates the motion of a moving camera based on visual input. Existing methods, mostly focusing on two-view point tracking, often ignore the rich temporal context in the image sequence, thereby overlooking the global motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Weirong Chen , Le Chen , Rui Wang , Marc Pollefeys

We study a Visual-Inertial Navigation (VIN) problem in which a robot needs to estimate its state using an on-board camera and an inertial sensor, without any prior knowledge of the external environment. We consider the case in which the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Luca Carlone , Sertac Karaman

Generally, high-level features provide more geometrical information compared to point features, which can be exploited to further constrain motions. Planes are commonplace in man-made environments, offering an active means to reduce drift,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yidi Zhang , Fulin Tang , Zewen Xu , Yihong Wu , Pengju Ma

Most feature-based stereo visual odometry (SVO) approaches estimate the motion of mobile robots by matching and tracking point features along a sequence of stereo images. However, in dynamic scenes mainly comprising moving pedestrians,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Baosheng Zhang , Xiaoguang Ma , Hongjun Ma , Chunbo Luo

Unsupervised Learning based monocular visual odometry (VO) has lately drawn significant attention for its potential in label-free leaning ability and robustness to camera parameters and environmental variations. However, partially due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Yang Li , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada

Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) algorithms typically rely on a point cloud representation of the scene that does not model the topology of the environment. A 3D mesh instead offers a richer, yet lightweight, model. Nevertheless, building a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Antoni Rosinol , Torsten Sattler , Marc Pollefeys , Luca Carlone

Reinforcement learning has shown great potential in developing high-level autonomous driving. However, for high-dimensional tasks, current RL methods suffer from low data efficiency and oscillation in the training process. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Yuhang Zhang , Yao Mu , Yujie Yang , Yang Guan , Shengbo Eben Li , Qi Sun , Jianyu Chen

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

Ingestible wireless capsule endoscopy is an emerging minimally invasive diagnostic technology for inspection of the GI tract and diagnosis of a wide range of diseases and pathologies. Medical device companies and many research groups have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Mehmet Turan , Yasin Almalioglu , Helder Araujo , Ender Konukoglu , Metin Sitti

Visual odometry algorithms tend to degrade when facing low-textured scenes -from e.g. human-made environments-, where it is often difficult to find a sufficient number of point features. Alternative geometrical visual cues, such as lines,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Joan P. Company-Corcoles , Emilio Garcia-Fidalgo , Alberto Ortiz

Traveling at constant velocity is the most efficient trajectory for most robotics applications. Unfortunately without accelerometer excitation, monocular Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) cannot observe scale and suffers severe error drift.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Jeff Delaune , David S. Bayard , Roland Brockers

Real-time LiDAR-visual-inertial odometry and mapping is crucial for navigation and planning tasks in intelligent transportation systems. This study presents a pose-only bundle adjustment (PA) LiDAR-visual-inertial odometry (LVIO), named…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Hailiang Tang , Tisheng Zhang , Liqiang Wang , Xin Ding , Man Yuan , Xiaoji Niu

This paper proposes a new framework to solve the problem of monocular visual odometry, called MagicVO . Based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Bi-directional LSTM (Bi-LSTM), MagicVO outputs a 6-DoF absolute-scale pose at each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Jian Jiao , Jichao Jiao , Yaokai Mo , Weilun Liu , Zhongliang Deng

This paper presents a novel tightly coupled Filter-based monocular visual-inertial-wheel odometry (VIWO) system for ground robots, designed to deliver accurate and robust localization in long-term complex outdoor navigation scenarios. As an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zhixin Zhang , Wenzhi Bai , Liang Zhao , Pawel Ladosz

Visual odometry is the process of estimating the position and orientation of a camera by analyzing the images associated to it. This paper develops a quick and accurate approach to visual odometry of a moving RGB-D camera navigating on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Afonso Fontes , Jose Everardo Bessa Maia