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We present a direct visual-inertial odometry (VIO) method which estimates the motion of the sensor setup and sparse 3D geometry of the environment based on measurements from a rolling-shutter camera and an inertial measurement unit (IMU).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 David Schubert , Nikolaus Demmel , Lukas von Stumberg , Vladyslav Usenko , Daniel Cremers

The computation of the Minimum Orbital Intersection Distance (MOID) is an old, but increasingly relevant problem. Fast and precise methods for MOID computation are needed to select potentially hazardous asteroids from a large catalogue. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-22 Jose M. Hedo , Manuel Ruiz , Jesus Pelaez

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

We introduce a new method to perform preliminary orbit determination for space debris on low Earth orbits (LEO). This method works with tracks of radar observations: each track is composed by $n\ge 4$ topocentric position vectors per pass…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-01-30 Giovanni F. Gronchi , Linda Dimare , Davide Bracali Cioci , Helene Ma

In the domain of Space Situational Awareness (SSA), the challenges pertaining to orbit determination and catalog correlation are notably pronounced, partly attributable to the escalating presence of non-cooperative satellites engaging in…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Jose M. Montilla , Jan A. Siminski , Rafael Vazquez

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

This paper presents FAST-LIO2: a fast, robust, and versatile LiDAR-inertial odometry framework. Building on a highly efficient tightly-coupled iterated Kalman filter, FAST-LIO2 has two key novelties that allow fast, robust, and accurate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Wei Xu , Yixi Cai , Dongjiao He , Jiarong Lin , Fu Zhang

The monocular visual-inertial odometry (VIO) based on the direct method can leverage all available pixels in the image to simultaneously estimate the camera motion and reconstruct the denser map of the scene in real time. However, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Bo Xu , Xin Li , Jingrong Wang , Chau Yuen , Jiancheng Li

As one of the most fundamental and challenging problems in computer vision, object detection tries to locate object instances and find their categories in natural images. The most important step in the evaluation of object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Qiang Zhao , Bin Chen , Hang Xu , Yike Ma , Xiaodong Li , Bailan Feng , Chenggang Yan , Feng Dai

Accurate relative orbit determination is a significant challenge in modern space operations, particularly when relying only on angular measurements. The inherent observability limitations of this approach make initial state estimation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Kui Xie , Giovanni Romagnoli , Giordana Bucchioni , Alberto Bemporad

Robotic ophthalmic surgery is an emerging technology to facilitate high-precision interventions such as retina penetration in subretinal injection and removal of floating tissues in retinal detachment depending on the input imaging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Junjie Yang , Zhihao Zhao , Siyuan Shen , Daniel Zapp , Mathias Maier , Kai Huang , Nassir Navab , M. Ali Nasseri

Object detection has seen remarkable progress in recent years with the introduction of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Object detection is a multi-task learning problem where both the position of the objects in the images as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Mofassir ul Islam Arif , Mohsan Jameel , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

We present VI-DSO, a novel approach for visual-inertial odometry, which jointly estimates camera poses and sparse scene geometry by minimizing photometric and IMU measurement errors in a combined energy functional. The visual part of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Lukas von Stumberg , Vladyslav Usenko , Daniel Cremers

Most visual odometry algorithm for a monocular camera focuses on points, either by feature matching, or direct alignment of pixel intensity, while ignoring a common but important geometry entity: edges. In this paper, we propose an odometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Shichao Yang , Sebastian Scherer

Integrating sphere (IS) techniques combined with an inverse adding doubling (IAD) algorithm have been widely used for determination of optical properties of ex vivo tissues. Semi-infinite samples are required in such cases. The aim of this…

Traditional LiDAR odometry (LO) systems mainly leverage geometric information obtained from the traversed surroundings to register laser scans and estimate LiDAR ego-motion, while it may be unreliable in dynamic or unstructured…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Shuaixin Li , Bin Tian , Zhu Xiaozhou , Gui Jianjun , Yao Wen , Guangyun Li

Odometer-aided visual-inertial SLAM systems typically have a good performance for navigation of wheeled platforms, while they usually suffer from degenerate cases before the first turning. In this paper, firstly we perform an observability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jinxu Liu , Wei Gao , Zhanyi Hu

Conventional intensity cameras recover objects in the direct line-of-sight of the camera, whereas occluded scene parts are considered lost in this process. Non-line-of-sight imaging (NLOS) aims at recovering these occluded objects by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Wenzheng Chen , Simon Daneau , Fahim Mannan , Felix Heide

In the existing methods, LiDAR odometry shows superior performance, but visual odometry is still widely used for its price advantage. Conventionally, the task of visual odometry mainly rely on the input of continuous images. However, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Huiying Deng , Guangming Wang , Zhiheng Feng , Chaokang Jiang , Xinrui Wu , Yanzi Miao , Hesheng Wang

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