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The fusion of visual and inertial measurements is becoming more and more popular in the robotics community since both sources of information complement well each other. However, in order to perform this fusion, the biases of the Inertial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-08 David Zuñiga-Noël , Francisco-Angel Moreno , Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez

Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is widely used for mobile robot localization, but its long-term accuracy degrades without global constraints. Incorporating ranging sensors such as ultra-wideband (UWB) can mitigate drift; however,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yu-An Liu , Li 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

Accurate and robust localization is a fundamental need for mobile agents. Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) algorithms exploit the information from camera and inertial sensors to estimate position and translation. Recent deep learning based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Zheming Tu , Changhao Chen , Xianfei Pan , Ruochen Liu , Jiarui Cui , Jun Mao

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

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

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

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

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

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

Traveling at constant velocity is the most efficient trajectory for most robotics applications. Unfortunately without accelerometer excitation, monocular Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) cannot observe scale and suffers severe error drift.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Jeff Delaune , David S. Bayard , Roland Brockers

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 an on-manifold sequence-to-sequence learning approach to motion estimation using visual and inertial sensors. It is to the best of our knowledge the first end-to-end trainable method for visual-inertial odometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Ronald Clark , Sen Wang , Hongkai Wen , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

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

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

This paper presents an end-to-end multi-modal learning approach for monocular Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO), which is specifically designed to exploit sensor complementarity in the light of sensor degradation scenarios. The proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Kashmira Shinde , Jongseok Lee , Matthias Humt , Aydin Sezgin , Rudolph Triebel

Visual-Inertial Odometry(VIO), which is critical to mobile robot navigation, uses cameras with a large number of pixels. Capturing and processing camera images requires significant resources. This work presents a minimalist approach to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Francesco Pasti , Jeremy Klotz , Nicola Bellotto , Shree K. Nayar

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

Event cameras are motion-activated sensors that capture pixel-level illumination changes instead of the intensity image with a fixed frame rate. Compared with the standard cameras, it can provide reliable visual perception during high-speed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Weipeng Guan , Peiyu Chen , Yuhan Xie , Peng Lu

Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) is a staple for reliable state estimation on constrained and lightweight platforms due to its versatility and demonstrated performance. However, pertinent challenges regarding robust operation in dark,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Morten Nissov , Mohit Singh , Kostas Alexis