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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

We present a multi-camera visual-inertial odometry system based on factor graph optimization which estimates motion by using all cameras simultaneously while retaining a fixed overall feature budget. We focus on motion tracking in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Lintong Zhang , David Wisth , Marco Camurri , Maurice Fallon

We propose a continuous-time spline-based formulation for visual-inertial odometry (VIO). Specifically, we model the poses as a cubic spline, whose temporal derivatives are used to synthesize linear acceleration and angular velocity, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Jiawei Mo , Junaed Sattar

While many visual odometry (VO), visual-inertial odometry (VIO), and SLAM systems achieve high accuracy, the majority of existing methods miss to assess risks at runtime. This paper presents SUPER (Sensitivity-based Uncertainty-aware…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Johannes A. Gaus , Daniel Häufle , Woo-Jeong Baek

Inertial odometry (IO) using only Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) offers a lightweight and cost-effective solution for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications, yet existing learning-based IO models often fail to generalize to UAVs due…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yuheng Qiu , Can Xu , Yutian Chen , Shibo Zhao , Junyi Geng , Sebastian Scherer

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

Odometry in adverse weather conditions, such as fog, rain, and snow, presents significant challenges, as traditional vision and LiDAR-based methods often suffer from degraded performance. Radar-Inertial Odometry (RIO) has emerged as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shuocheng Yang , Yueming Cao , Shengbo Eben Li , Jianqiang Wang , Shaobing Xu

SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) and Odometry are important systems for estimating the position of mobile devices, such as robots and cars, utilizing one or more sensors. Particularly in camera-based SLAM or Odometry,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Sanghyun Park , Soohee Han

Monocular visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is a low-cost solution to provide high-accuracy, low-drifting pose estimation. However, it has been meeting challenges in vehicular scenarios due to limited dynamics and lack of stable features. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yuxuan Zhou , Xingxing Li , Shengyu Li , Xuanbin Wang , Zhiheng Shen

In this paper, we present the Trifo Visual Inertial Odometry (Trifo-VIO), a tightly-coupled filtering-based stereo VIO system using both points and lines. Line features help improve system robustness in challenging scenarios when point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Feng Zheng , Grace Tsai , Zhe Zhang , Shaoshan Liu , Chen-Chi Chu , Hongbing Hu

Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) algorithms estimate the accurate camera trajectory by using camera and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors. The applications of VIO span a diverse range, including augmented reality and indoor navigation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Ali Samadzadeh , Mohammad Hassan Mojab , Heydar Soudani , Seyed Hesamoddin Mireshghollah , Ahmad Nickabadi

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…

In this paper we introduce MLINE-VINS, a novel monocular visual-inertial odometry (VIO) system that leverages line features and Manhattan Word assumption. Specifically, for line matching process, we propose a novel geometric line optical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Chao Ye , Haoyuan Li , Weiyang Lin , Xianqiang Yang

Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) is a widely used computer vision method that determines an agent's movement through a camera and an IMU sensor. This paper presents an efficient and accurate VIO pipeline optimized for applications on micro-…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Jonas Kühne , Christian Vogt , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

Monocular visual-inertial odometry (VIO) cannot recover metric scale from vision alone; scale must be resolved through inertial measurements. We present a trajectory-dependent observability analysis showing that translational acceleration,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Hadush Hailu , Bruk Gebregziabher

Data-driven visual odometry (VO) is a critical subroutine for autonomous edge robotics, and recent progress in the field has produced highly accurate point predictions in complex environments. However, emerging autonomous edge robotics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Alex C. Stutts , Danilo Erricolo , Theja Tulabandhula , Amit Ranjan Trivedi

High-speed ground robots moving on unstructured terrains generate intense high-frequency vibrations, leading to LiDAR scan distortions in Lidar-inertial odometry (LIO). Accurate and efficient undistortion is extremely challenging due to (1)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yan Dong , Enci Xu , Shaoqiang Qiu , Wenxuan Li , Yang Liu , Bin Han

With monocular Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) system, 3D point cloud and camera motion can be estimated simultaneously. Because pure sparse 3D points provide a structureless representation of the environment, generating 3D mesh from sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Xin Li , Yijia He , Jinlong Lin , Xiao Liu

This paper presents a computationally efficient and robust LiDAR-inertial odometry framework. We fuse LiDAR feature points with IMU data using a tightly-coupled iterated extended Kalman filter to allow robust navigation in fast-motion,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Wei Xu , Fu Zhang

This study presents an innovative hybrid Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) method for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) that is resilient to environmental challenges and capable of dynamically assessing sensor reliability. Built upon a loosely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Ufuk Asil , Efendi Nasibov