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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

This paper presents a novel approach to Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO), focusing on the initialization and feature matching modules. Existing methods for initialization often suffer from either poor stability in visual Structure from Motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Shangjin Zhai , Nan Wang , Xiaomeng Wang , Danpeng Chen , Weijian Xie , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang

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

Breakthroughs in visual odometry (VO) have fundamentally reshaped the landscape of robotics, enabling ultra-precise camera state estimation that is crucial for modern autonomous systems. Despite these advances, many learning-based VO…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Chi-Yao Huang , Zeel Bhatt , Yezhou Yang

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

In this paper, we present a multi-camera visual odometry (VO) system for an autonomous vehicle. Our system mainly consists of a virtual LiDAR and a pose tracker. We use a perspective transformation method to synthesize a surround-view image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Zhenzhen Xiang , Jingrui Yu , Jie Li , Jianbo Su

In this paper we propose a robust visual odometry system for a wide-baseline camera rig with wide field-of-view (FOV) fisheye lenses, which provides full omnidirectional stereo observations of the environment. For more robust and accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Hochang Seok , Jongwoo Lim

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 a vital technique used in robotics, augmented reality, and autonomous vehicles. It combines visual and inertial measurements to accurately estimate position and orientation. Existing VIO methods assume a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Dan Solodar , Itzik Klein

This work presents a comprehensive benchmark evaluation of visual odometry (VO) and visual SLAM (VSLAM) systems for mobile robot navigation in real-world logistical environments. We compare multiple visual odometry approaches across…

Estimating motion from images is a well-studied problem in computer vision and robotics. Previous work has developed techniques to estimate the motion of a moving camera in a largely static environment (e.g., visual odometry) and to segment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Kevin M. Judd , Jonathan D. Gammell , Paul Newman

We present a modified velocity-obstacle (VO) algorithm that uses probabilistic partial observations of the environment to compute velocities and navigate a robot to a target. Our system uses commodity visual sensors, including a mono-camera…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Jing Liang , Yi-Ling Qiao , Tianrui Guan , Dinesh Manocha

Visual odometry (VO) aims to estimate camera poses from visual inputs -- a fundamental building block for many applications such as VR/AR and robotics. This work focuses on monocular RGB VO where the input is a monocular RGB video without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Junda Cheng , Zhipeng Cai , Zhaoxing Zhang , Wei Yin , Matthias Muller , Michael Paulitsch , Xin Yang

Building vehicles capable of operating without human supervision requires the determination of the agent's pose. Visual Odometry (VO) algorithms estimate the egomotion using only visual changes from the input images. The most recent VO…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Iury Cleveston , Esther L. Colombini

Effectively localizing an agent in a realistic, noisy setting is crucial for many embodied vision tasks. Visual Odometry (VO) is a practical substitute for unreliable GPS and compass sensors, especially in indoor environments. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Marius Memmel , Roman Bachmann , Amir Zamir

Mobile robots rely on odometry to navigate through areas where localization fails. Visual odometry (VO) is a common solution for obtaining robust and consistent relative motion estimates of the vehicle frame. Contrarily, Global Positioning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Benjamin Congram , Timothy D. Barfoot

Visual Odometry (VO) plays a pivotal role in autonomous systems, with a principal challenge being the lack of depth information in camera images. This paper introduces OCC-VO, a novel framework that capitalizes on recent advances in deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Heng Li , Yifan Duan , Xinran Zhang , Haiyi Liu , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

Visual odometry (VO) plays a crucial role in autonomous driving, robotic navigation, and other related tasks by estimating the position and orientation of a camera based on visual input. Significant progress has been made in data-driven VO…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Dongzhihan Wang , Yang Yang , Liang Xu

Making multi-camera visual SLAM systems easier to set up and more robust to the environment is attractive for vision robots. Existing monocular and binocular vision SLAM systems have narrow sensing Field-of-View (FoV), resulting in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Huai Yu , Junhao Wang , Yao He , Wen Yang , Gui-Song Xia

Deep Learning based techniques have been adopted with precision to solve a lot of standard computer vision problems, some of which are image classification, object detection and segmentation. Despite the widespread success of these…

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