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Visual-inertial SLAM is crucial in various fields, such as aerial vehicles, industrial robots, and autonomous driving. The fusion of camera and inertial measurement unit (IMU) makes up for the shortcomings of a signal sensor, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Jiaming He , Mingrui Li , Yangyang Wang , Hongyu Wang

Autonomous vehicle navigation is a key challenge in artificial intelligence, requiring robust and accurate decision-making processes. This research introduces a new end-to-end method that exploits multimodal information from a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Fouad Makiyeh , Mark Bastourous , Anass Bairouk , Wei Xiao , Mirjana Maras , Tsun-Hsuan Wangb , Marc Blanchon , Ramin Hasani , Patrick Chareyre , Daniela Rus

Accuracy and computational efficiency are the most important metrics to Visual Inertial Navigation System (VINS). The existing VINS algorithms with either high accuracy or low computational complexity, are difficult to provide the high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Yunfei Fan , Tianyu Zhao , Guidong Wang

Modern visual-inertial navigation systems (VINS) are faced with a critical challenge in real-world deployment: they need to operate reliably and robustly in highly dynamic environments. Current best solutions merely filter dynamic objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Karnik Ram , Chaitanya Kharyal , Sudarshan S. Harithas , K. Madhava Krishna

Monocular 3D detection relies on just a single camera and is therefore easy to deploy. Yet, achieving reliable 3D understanding from monocular images requires substantial annotation, and 3D labels are especially costly. To maximize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Johannes Meier , Florian Günther , Riccardo Marin , Oussema Dhaouadi , Jacques Kaiser , Daniel Cremers

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has recently demonstrated impressive capabilities in real-time novel view synthesis and 3D reconstruction. However, 3DGS heavily depends on the accurate initialization derived from Structure-from-Motion (SfM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Jaewoo Jung , Jisang Han , Honggyu An , Jiwon Kang , Seonghoon Park , Seungryong Kim

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

In this letter, we present a robust, real-time, inertial navigation system (INS)-Centric GNSS-Visual-Inertial navigation system (IC-GVINS) for wheeled robot, in which the precise INS is fully utilized in both the state estimation and visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Hailiang Tang , Tisheng Zhang , Xiaoji Niu , Jing Fan , Jingnan Liu

General Visual Inspection is a manual inspection process regularly used to detect and localise obvious damage on the exterior of commercial aircraft. There has been increasing demand to perform this process at the boarding gate to minimize…

Transient computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations are essential for many industrial applications, but suffer from high compute costs relative to steady-state simulations. This is due to the need to: (a) reach statistical steadiness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Peter Sharpe , Rishikesh Ranade , Kaustubh Tangsali , Mohammad Amin Nabian , Ram Cherukuri , Sanjay Choudhry

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

Most of the existing LiDAR-inertial navigation systems are based on frame-to-map registrations, leading to inconsistency in state estimation. The newest solid-state LiDAR with a non-repetitive scanning pattern makes it possible to achieve a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Hailiang Tang , Tisheng Zhang , Xiaoji Niu , Liqiang Wang , Linfu Wei , Jingnan Liu

In this paper, an efficient closed-form solution for the state initialization in visual-inertial odometry (VIO) and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is presented. Unlike the state-of-the-art, we do not derive linear equations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Georgios Evangelidis , Branislav Micusik

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

This paper presents a task-oriented computational framework to enhance Visual-Inertial Navigation (VIN) in robots, addressing challenges such as limited time and energy resources. The framework strategically selects visual features using a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Reza Vafaee , Kian Behzad , Milad Siami , Luca Carlone , Ali Jadbabaie

This paper presents a methodology to predict metric depth from monocular RGB images and an inertial measurement unit (IMU). To enable collision avoidance during autonomous flight, prior works either leverage heavy sensors (e.g., LiDARs or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Steven Yang , Xiaoyu Tian , Kshitij Goel , Wennie Tabib

This paper investigates the localization problem of high-speed high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a monocular camera and inertial navigation system. It proposes a navigation method utilizing the complementarity of vision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Xin-long Luo , Jia-hui Lv , Geng Sun

While recent feed-forward 3D reconstruction models provide a strong geometric foundation for scene understanding, extending them to 3D instance segmentation typically relies on a disjointed "lift-and-cluster" paradigm. Grouping dense…

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Real-time 3D object detection is crucial for autonomous cars. Achieving promising performance with high efficiency, voxel-based approaches have received considerable attention. However, previous methods model the input space with features…

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