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Visual Odometry (VO) and Visual SLAM (V-SLAM) systems often struggle in low-light and dark environments due to the lack of robust visual features. In this paper, we propose a novel active illumination framework to enhance the performance of…

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We present an efficient multi-sensor odometry system for mobile platforms that jointly optimizes visual, lidar, and inertial information within a single integrated factor graph. This runs in real-time at full framerate using fixed lag…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-18 David Wisth , Marco Camurri , Sandipan Das , Maurice Fallon

Accurate robot odometry is essential for autonomous navigation. While numerous techniques have been developed based on various sensor suites, odometry estimation using only radar and IMU remains an underexplored area. Radar proves…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Lucia Coto Elena , Fernando Caballero , Luis Merino

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

A monocular 3D object tracking system generally has only up-to-scale pose estimation results without any prior knowledge of the tracked object. In this paper, we propose a novel idea to recover the metric scale of an arbitrary dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Kejie Qiu , Tong Qin , Hongwen Xie , Shaojie Shen

Monocular depth estimation (MDE), inferring pixel-level depths in single RGB images from a monocular camera, plays a crucial and pivotal role in a variety of AI applications demanding a three-dimensional (3D) topographical scene. In the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Mingyu Sung , Hyeonmin Choe , Il-Min Kim , Sangseok Yun , Jae Mo Kang

In the last decade, numerous supervised deep learning approaches requiring large amounts of labeled data have been proposed for visual-inertial odometry (VIO) and depth map estimation. To overcome the data limitation, self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Yasin Almalioglu , Mehmet Turan , Alp Eren Sari , Muhamad Risqi U. Saputra , Pedro P. B. de Gusmão , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

We present an approach for radar-inertial odometry which uses a continuous-time framework to fuse measurements from multiple automotive radars and an inertial measurement unit (IMU). Adverse weather conditions do not have a significant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Yin Zhi Ng , Benjamin Choi , Robby Tan , Lionel Heng

We present a novel real-time visual odometry framework for a stereo setup of a depth and high-resolution event camera. Our framework balances accuracy and robustness against computational efficiency towards strong performance in challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Yi-Fan Zuo , Jiaqi Yang , Jiaben Chen , Xia Wang , Yifu Wang , Laurent Kneip

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a powerful imaging technique with diverse applications, e.g., medical diagnosis, industrial monitoring, and environmental studies. The EIT inverse problem is about inferring the internal conductivity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Derick Nganyu Tanyu , Jianfeng Ning , Andreas Hauptmann , Bangti Jin , Peter Maass

Multi-spectral sensors consisting of a standard (visible-light) camera and a long-wave infrared camera can simultaneously provide both visible and thermal images. Since thermal images are independent from environmental illumination, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Weichen Dai , Yu Zhang , Donglei Sun , Naira Hovakimyan , Ping Li

Visual odometry and Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) has been studied as one of the most important tasks in the areas of computer vision and robotics, to contribute to autonomous navigation and augmented reality systems. In case…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Seongwook Yoon , Jaehyun Kim , Sanghoon Sull

In recent years there have been excellent results in Visual-Inertial Odometry techniques, which aim to compute the incremental motion of the sensor with high accuracy and robustness. However these approaches lack the capability to close…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Raul Mur-Artal , Juan D. Tardos

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

Accurate localization in autonomous driving is critical for successful missions including environmental mapping and survivor searches. In visually challenging environments, including low-light conditions, overexposure, illumination changes,…

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

Existing LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO) methods typically utilize the prior trajectory derived from the IMU integration to compensate for the motion distortion within LiDAR frames. However, discrepancies between the prior and true trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Tianxiang Zhang , Xuanxuan Zhang , Wenlei Fan , Xin Xia , Huai Yu , Lin Wang , You Li

We present an unsupervised deep neural network approach to the fusion of RGB-D imagery with inertial measurements for absolute trajectory estimation. Our network, dubbed the Visual-Inertial-Odometry Learner (VIOLearner), learns to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 E. Jared Shamwell , Sarah Leung , William D. Nothwang

Visual-Inertial odometry (VIO) is the process of estimating the state (pose and velocity) of an agent (e.g., an aerial robot) by using only the input of one or more cameras plus one or more Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) attached to it.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Davide Scaramuzza , Zichao Zhang

Direct methods for event-based visual odometry solve the mapping and camera pose tracking sub-problems by establishing implicit data association in a way that the generative model of events is exploited. The main bottlenecks faced by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Junkai Niu , Sheng Zhong , Yi Zhou