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Hybrid pipelines that combine deep learning with classical optimization have established themselves as the dominant approach to visual odometry (VO). By integrating neural network predictions with bundle adjustment, these models estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Vlardimir Yugay , Duy-Kien Nguyen , Theo Gevers , Cees G. M. Snoek , Martin R. Oswald

Monocular visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is a critical problem in robotics and autonomous driving. Traditional methods solve this problem based on filtering or optimization. While being fully interpretable, they rely on manual interference…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Zexi Chen , Haozhe Du , Xuecheng Xu , Rong Xiong , Yiyi Liao , Yue Wang

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

Event cameras show great potential for visual odometry (VO) in handling challenging situations, such as fast motion and high dynamic range. Despite this promise, the sparse and motion-dependent characteristics of event data continue to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Weipeng Guan , Fuling Lin , Peiyu Chen , Peng Lu

Visual odometry (VO) is a prevalent way to deal with the relative localization problem, which is becoming increasingly mature and accurate, but it tends to be fragile under challenging environments. Comparing with classical geometry-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Ke Wang , Sai Ma , Junlan Chen , Fan Ren

This paper presents a novel cascaded observer architecture that combines optical flow and IMU measurements to perform continuous monocular visual-inertial odometry (VIO). The proposed solution estimates body-frame velocity and gravity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Tarek Bouazza , Soulaimane Berkane , Minh-Duc Hua , Tarek Hamel

We propose XVO, a semi-supervised learning method for training generalized monocular Visual Odometry (VO) models with robust off-the-self operation across diverse datasets and settings. In contrast to standard monocular VO approaches which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Lei Lai , Zhongkai Shangguan , Jimuyang Zhang , Eshed Ohn-Bar

This paper introduces a new dual monocular visualinertial odometry (dual-VIO) strategy for a mobile manipulator operating under dynamic locomotion, i.e. coordinated movement involving both the base platform and the manipulator arm. Our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Jianxiang Xu , Soo Jeon

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Vikram Mohanty , Shubh Agrawal , Shaswat Datta , Arna Ghosh , Vishnu Dutt Sharma , Debashish Chakravarty

The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications, such as driverless cars, have a growing demand for high-precision positioning and navigation. Nowadays, LiDAR inertial odometry becomes increasingly prevalent in robotics and autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Chengwei Zhao , Kun Hu , Jie Xu , Lijun Zhao , Baiwen Han , Kaidi Wu , Maoshan Tian , Shenghai Yuan

To achieve accurate and robust pose estimation in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) task, multi-sensor fusion is proven to be an effective solution and thus provides great potential in robotic applications. This paper proposes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Chunran Zheng , Qingyan Zhu , Wei Xu , Xiyuan Liu , Qizhi Guo , Fu Zhang

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

In this paper, we present iDVO (inertia-embedded deep visual odometry), a self-supervised learning based monocular visual odometry (VO) for road vehicles. When modelling the geometric consistency within adjacent frames, most deep VO methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Chengze Wang , Yuan Yuan , Qi Wang

Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is widely used in various fields, such as robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles. However, real-world scenes often feature dynamic objects, compromising the accuracy of VIO. The diversity and partial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Rui Zhou , Jingbin Liu , Junbin Xie , Jianyu Zhang , Yingze Hu , Jiele Zhao

We introduce XIRVIO, a transformer-based Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) framework for monocular visual inertial odometry (VIO). By taking sequences of images and 6-DoF inertial measurements as inputs, XIRVIO's generator predicts pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Chit Yuen Lam , Ronald Clark , Basaran Bahadir Kocer

Dynamic environments such as urban areas are still challenging for popular visual-inertial odometry (VIO) algorithms. Existing datasets typically fail to capture the dynamic nature of these environments, therefore making it difficult to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Koji Minoda , Fabian Schilling , Valentin Wüest , Dario Floreano , Takehisa Yairi

Efficiency and robustness are the essential criteria for the visual-inertial odometry (VIO) system. To process massive visual data, the high cost on CPU resources and computation latency limits VIO's possibility in integration with other…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Yao He , Huai Yu , Wen Yang , Sebastian Scherer

Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is widely used for state estimation in autonomous micro aerial vehicles using onboard sensors. Current methods improve VIO by incorporating a model of the translational vehicle dynamics, yet their performance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Giovanni Cioffi , Leonard Bauersfeld , Davide Scaramuzza

This paper presents an extension to visual inertial odometry (VIO) by introducing tightly-coupled fusion of magnetometer measurements. A sliding window of keyframes is optimized by minimizing re-projection errors, relative inertial errors,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Bharat Joshi , Ioannis Rekleitis

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