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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

In this paper, we present a tightly coupled optimization-based GPS-Visual-Inertial odometry system to solve the trajectory drift of the visual-inertial odometry especially over long-term runs. Visual reprojection residuals, IMU residuals,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Shihao Han , Feiyang Deng , Tao Li , Hailong Pei

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…

Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) utilizes an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) to overcome the limitations of Visual Odometry (VO). However, the VIO for vehicles in large-scale outdoor environments still has some difficulties in estimating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Chang-Ryeol Lee , Kuk-Jin Yoon

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

Cameras and inertial measurement units are complementary sensors for ego-motion estimation and environment mapping. Their combination makes visual-inertial odometry (VIO) systems more accurate and robust. For globally consistent mapping,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Vladyslav Usenko , Nikolaus Demmel , David Schubert , Jörg Stückler , Daniel Cremers

Robust stereo visual-inertial odometry (VIO) remains challenging in low-texture scenes and under abrupt illumination changes, where point features become sparse and unstable, leading to ambiguous association and under-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Zikun Chen , Wentao Zhao , Yihe Niu , Tianchen Deng , Jingchuan Wang

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

Autonomous navigation for legged robots in complex and dynamic environments relies on robust simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems to accurately map surroundings and localize the robot, ensuring safe and efficient operation.…

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

A fundamental challenge in robust visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is to dynamically assess the reliability of sensor measurements. This assessment is crucial for properly weighting the contribution of each measurement to the state estimate.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Seungwon Choi , Donggyu Park , Seo-Yeon Hwang , Tae-Wan Kim

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 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

This paper delves into the potential of DU-VIO, a dehazing-aided hybrid multi-rate multi-modal Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) estimation framework, designed to thrive in the challenging realm of extreme underwater environments. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Vidya Sudevan , Fakhreddine Zayer , Taimur Hassan , Sajid Javed , Hamad Karki , Giulia De Masi , Jorge Dias

Radar-Inertial Odometry (RIO) has emerged as a robust alternative to vision- and LiDAR-based odometry in challenging conditions such as low light, fog, featureless environments, or in adverse weather. However, many existing RIO approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Vlaho-Josip Štironja , Luka Petrović , Juraj Peršić , Ivan Marković , Ivan Petrović

We propose a novel deep visual odometry (VO) method that considers global information by selecting memory and refining poses. Existing learning-based methods take the VO task as a pure tracking problem via recovering camera poses from image…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Fei Xue , Xin Wang , Junqiu Wang , Hongbin Zha

Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) is an essential component of modern Augmented Reality (AR) applications. However, VIO only tracks the relative pose of the device, leading to drift over time. Absolute pose estimation methods infer the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Changkun Liu , Yukun Zhao , Tristan Braud

Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) systems traditionally rely on filtering or optimization-based techniques for egomotion estimation. While these methods are accurate under nominal conditions, they are prone to failure during severe…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Brandon Wagstaff , Emmett Wise , Jonathan Kelly

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

Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is the most common approach for estimating the state of autonomous micro aerial vehicles using only onboard sensors. Existing methods improve VIO performance by including a dynamics model in the estimation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Giovanni Cioffi , Leonard Bauersfeld , Davide Scaramuzza