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In recent years, deep learning-based approaches for visual-inertial odometry (VIO) have shown remarkable performance outperforming traditional geometric methods. Yet, all existing methods use both the visual and inertial measurements for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Mingyu Yang , Yu Chen , Hun-Seok Kim

Visual odometry techniques typically rely on feature extraction from a sequence of images and subsequent computation of optical flow. This point-to-point correspondence between two consecutive frames can be costly to compute and suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Chenqi Zhu , Levi Burner , Yiannis Aloimonos

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

This paper presents an self-supervised deep learning network for monocular visual inertial odometry (named DeepVIO). DeepVIO provides absolute trajectory estimation by directly merging 2D optical flow feature (OFF) and Inertial Measurement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Liming Han , Yimin Lin , Guoguang Du , Shiguo Lian

State-of-the-art forward facing monocular visual-inertial odometry algorithms are often brittle in practice, especially whilst dealing with initialisation and motion in directions that render the state unobservable. In such cases having a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Bo Fu , Kumar Shaurya Shankar , Nathan Michael

In this paper, we introduce IDOL, an optimization-based framework for IMU-DVS Odometry using Lines. Event cameras, also called Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVSs), generate highly asynchronous streams of events triggered upon illumination changes…

Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) is one of the most established state estimation methods for mobile platforms. However, when visual tracking fails, VIO algorithms quickly diverge due to rapid error accumulation during inertial data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Russell Buchanan , Varun Agrawal , Marco Camurri , Frank Dellaert , Maurice Fallon

In past few years we have observed an increase in the usage of RGBD sensors in mobile devices. These sensors provide a good estimate of the depth map for the camera frame, which can be used in numerous augmented reality applications. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Abhishek Tyagi , Yangwen Liang , Shuangquan Wang , Dongwoon Bai

Traditional monocular Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) systems struggle in low-texture environments where sparse visual features are insufficient for accurate pose estimation. To address this, dense Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Arda Alniak , Sinan Kalkan , Mustafa Mert Ankarali , Afsar Saranli , Abdullah Aydin Alatan

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

The Visual-Inertial Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VI-SLAM) algorithms which are mostly based on static assumption are widely used in fields such as robotics, UAVs, VR, and autonomous driving. To overcome the localization risks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Weilong Sun , Yumin Zhang , Boren Wei

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

This paper introduces the united monocular-stereo features into a visual-inertial tightly coupled odometry (UMS-VINS) for robust pose estimation. UMS-VINS requires two cameras and a low-cost inertial measurement unit (IMU). The UMS-VINS is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Chaoyang Jiang , Xiaoni Zheng , Zhe Jin , Chengpu Yu

Event cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors that output pixel-level brightness changes instead of standard intensity frames. They offer significant advantages over standard cameras, namely a very high dynamic range, no motion blur, and a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Elias Mueggler , Guillermo Gallego , Henri Rebecq , Davide Scaramuzza

We describe a method to infer dense depth from camera motion and sparse depth as estimated using a visual-inertial odometry system. Unlike other scenarios using point clouds from lidar or structured light sensors, we have few hundreds to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Alex Wong , Xiaohan Fei , Stephanie Tsuei , Stefano Soatto

Advances in micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) techniques enable inertial measurements units (IMUs) to be small, cheap, energy efficient, and widely used in smartphones, robots, and drones. Exploiting inertial data for accurate and reliable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Changhao Chen , Peijun Zhao , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Wei Wang , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

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

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

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

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