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Limited-angle computed tomography (LACT) offers the advantages of reduced radiation dose and shortened scanning time. Traditional reconstruction algorithms exhibit various inherent limitations in LACT. Currently, most deep learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Yiyang Wen , Liu Shi , Zekun Zhou , WenZhe Shan , Qiegen Liu

Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) estimates the location of a ground image by matching it to a geo-tagged aerial image in a database. Recent works achieve outstanding progress on CVGL benchmarks. However, existing methods still suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Xiaohan Zhang , Xingyu Li , Waqas Sultani , Chen Chen , Safwan Wshah

Inertial localization is particularly valuable in GPS-denied environments such as indoors. However, localization using only Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) suffers from drift caused by motion-process noise and sensor biases. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Mohammed S. Alharbi , Shinkyu Park

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

Neural implicit mapping has emerged as a powerful paradigm for robotic navigation and scene understanding. However, real-world robotic deployment requires continual adaptation to changing environments under strict memory and computation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xunlan Zhou , Hongrui Zhao , Negar Mehr

Globally-consistent localization in urban environments is crucial for autonomous systems such as self-driving vehicles and drones, as well as assistive technologies for visually impaired people. Traditional Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Roxane Merat , Giovanni Cioffi , Leonard Bauersfeld , Davide Scaramuzza

In Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-degraded environments, pseudolites (PLs) provide additional signal sources to enhance positioning performance, but their integration in optimization-based frameworks remains limited. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chih-Chun Chen , Lipeng Tan , Shiyu Bai , Heike Vallery

Accurate calibration of intrinsic (odometer scaling factors) and extrinsic parameters (IMU-odometer translation and rotation) is essential for autonomous ground vehicle localization. Existing GNSS-aided approaches often rely on positioning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Baoshan Song , Xiao Xia , Penggao Yan , Yihan Zhong , Weisong Wen , Li-Ta Hsu

We present a visual localization system that learns to estimate camera poses in the real world with the help of synthetic data. Despite significant progress in recent years, most learning-based approaches to visual localization target at a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Qi Yan , Jianhao Zheng , Simon Reding , Shanci Li , Iordan Doytchinov

The integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) is increasingly central to the development of intelligent autonomous systems for applications such as search and rescue, environmental monitoring, and…

Trajectory prediction is a critical part of many AI applications, for example, the safe operation of autonomous vehicles. However, current methods are prone to making inconsistent and physically unrealistic predictions. We leverage insights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Robin Walters , Jinxi Li , Rose Yu

Accurate and robust vehicle localization in highly urbanized areas is challenging. Sensors are often corrupted in those complicated and large-scale environments. This paper introduces GNSS-FGO, an online and global trajectory estimator that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Haoming Zhang , Chih-Chun Chen , Heike Vallery , Timothy D. Barfoot

Visual localization has traditionally been formulated as a pair-wise pose regression problem. Existing approaches mainly estimate relative poses between two images and employ a late-fusion strategy to obtain absolute pose estimates.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Tianchen Deng , Wenhua Wu , Kunzhen Wu , Guangming Wang , Siting Zhu , Shenghai Yuan , Xun Chen , Guole Shen , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

To address the challenge of autonomous UGV localization in GNSS-denied off-road environments,this study proposes a matching-based localization method that leverages BEV perception image and satellite map within a road similarity space to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Zhenping Sun , Chuang Yang , Yafeng Bu , Bokai Liu , Jun Zeng , Xiaohui Li

Accurate and consistent vehicle localization in urban areas is challenging due to the large-scale and complicated environments. In this paper, we propose onlineFGO, a novel time-centric graph-optimization-based localization method that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Haoming Zhang , Felix Widmayer , Lars Lünnemann , Dirk Abel

Visual-Inertial odometry (VIO) is known to suffer from drifting especially over long-term runs. In this paper, we present GVINS, a non-linear optimization based system that tightly fuses GNSS raw measurements with visual and inertial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Shaozu Cao , Xiuyuan Lu , Shaojie Shen

Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning is widely used for urban navigation, but the covariance reported by the GNSS solver is often unreliable in urban canyons. Existing differentiable factor graph optimization (DFGO) methods…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Liang Qian , Penggao Yan , Penghui Xu , Li-Ta Hsu

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to fine-grained cross-view geo-localization. Our method aligns a warped ground image with a corresponding GPS-tagged satellite image covering the same area using homography estimation. We first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Xiaolong Wang , Runsen Xu , Zuofan Cui , Zeyu Wan , Yu Zhang

Visual Geometry Foundation Models (VGFMs) demonstrate remarkable zero-shot capabilities in local reconstruction. However, deploying them for kilometer-level Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) remains challenging. In such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Tianjun Zhang , Fengyi Zhang , Tianchen Deng , Lin Zhang , Hesheng Wang

We present TANGO (Tensor ANd Graph Optimization), a novel motion planning framework that integrates tensor-based compression with structured graph optimization to enable efficient and scalable trajectory generation. While optimization-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Gerhard Reinerth , Riddhiman Laha , Marcello Romano