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We propose a self-supervised learning framework that uses unlabeled monocular video sequences to generate large-scale supervision for training a Visual Odometry (VO) frontend, a network which computes pointwise data associations across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Daniel DeTone , Tomasz Malisiewicz , Andrew Rabinovich

Depth information is important for autonomous systems to perceive environments and estimate their own state. Traditional depth estimation methods, like structure from motion and stereo vision matching, are built on feature correspondences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Chaoqiang Zhao , Qiyu Sun , Chongzhen Zhang , Yang Tang , Feng Qian

Estimating the camera's pose given images from a single camera is a traditional task in mobile robots and autonomous vehicles. This problem is called monocular visual odometry and often relies on geometric approaches that require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 André O. Françani , Marcos R. O. A. Maximo

In recent years, unsupervised deep learning approaches have received significant attention to estimate the depth and visual odometry (VO) from unlabelled monocular image sequences. However, their performance is limited in challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Yasin Almalioglu , Angel Santamaria-Navarro , Benjamin Morrell , Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi

Self-supervised learning for monocular depth estimation is widely investigated as an alternative to supervised learning approach, that requires a lot of ground truths. Previous works have successfully improved the accuracy of depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Noriaki Hirose , Shun Taguchi , Keisuke Kawano , Satoshi Koide

Monocular visual odometry (VO) is a fundamental computer vision problem with applications in autonomous navigation, augmented reality and more. While deep learning-based methods have recently shown superior accuracy compared to traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Dominik Kuczkowski , Laura Ruotsalainen

Monocular visual odometry (VO) has attracted extensive research attention by providing real-time vehicle motion from cost-effective camera images. However, state-of-the-art optimization-based monocular VO methods suffer from the scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Sen Zhang , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is the pose estimation backbone for most AR/VR and autonomous robotic systems today, in both academia and industry. However, these systems are highly sensitive to the initialization of key parameters such as…

This paper introduces a fully deep learning approach to monocular SLAM, which can perform simultaneous localization using a neural network for learning visual odometry (L-VO) and dense 3D mapping. Dense 2D flow and a depth image are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Cheng Zhao , Li Sun , Pulak Purkait , Tom Duckett , Rustam Stolkin

As a crucial task of autonomous driving, 3D object detection has made great progress in recent years. However, monocular 3D object detection remains a challenging problem due to the unsatisfactory performance in depth estimation. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Yinmin Zhang , Xinzhu Ma , Shuai Yi , Jun Hou , Zhihui Wang , Wanli Ouyang , Dan Xu

The technology for Visual Odometry (VO) that estimates the position and orientation of the moving object through analyzing the image sequences captured by on-board cameras, has been well investigated with the rising interest in autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Ran Zhu , Mingkun Yang , Wang Liu , Rujun Song , Bo Yan , Zhuoling Xiao

Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has gathered notable interest since it can liberate training from dependency on depth annotations. In monocular video training case, recent methods only conduct view synthesis between existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Jinfeng Liu , Lingtong Kong , Bo Li , Zerong Wang , Hong Gu , Jinwei Chen

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

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

Monocular depth estimation is often described as an ill-posed and inherently ambiguous problem. Estimating depth from 2D images is a crucial step in scene reconstruction, 3Dobject recognition, segmentation, and detection. The problem can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Amlaan Bhoi

Transparent object perception is indispensable for numerous robotic tasks. However, accurately segmenting and estimating the depth of transparent objects remain challenging due to complex optical properties. Existing methods primarily delve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jiangyuan Liu , Hongxuan Ma , Yuxin Guo , Yuhao Zhao , Chi Zhang , Wei Sui , Wei Zou

Monocular cameras are extensively employed in indoor robotics, but their performance is limited in visual odometry, depth estimation, and related applications due to the absence of scale information.Depth estimation refers to the process of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Yehao Liu , Ruoyan Xia , Xiaosu Xu , Zijian Wang , Yiqing Ya , Mingze Fan

Monocular depth estimation can play an important role in addressing the issue of deriving scene geometry from 2D images. It has been used in a variety of industries, including robots, self-driving cars, scene comprehension, 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Ruilin Ma , Shiyao Chen , Qin Zhang

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

Accurate depth estimation is at the core of many applications in computer graphics, vision, and robotics. Current state-of-the-art monocular depth estimators, trained on extensive datasets, generalize well but lack 3D consistency needed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Laura Fink , Linus Franke , Bernhard Egger , Joachim Keinert , Marc Stamminger