State of the art in vision-based localization techniques for autonomous navigation systems

Y Alkendi, L Seneviratne, Y Zweiri - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vision-based localization systems, namely visual odometry (VO) and visual inertial odometry
(VIO), have attracted great attention recently. They are regarded as critical modules for …

Advances in intelligent and autonomous navigation systems for small UAS

S Bijjahalli, R Sabatini, A Gardi - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
A significant growth in Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) operations has been observed over
the past decade, largely driven by the emergence of new commercial opportunities and use …

Deepvo: Towards end-to-end visual odometry with deep recurrent convolutional neural networks

S Wang, R Clark, H Wen… - 2017 IEEE international …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies monocular visual odometry (VO) problem. Most of existing VO algorithms
are developed under a standard pipeline including feature extraction, feature matching …

Tartanvo: A generalizable learning-based vo

W Wang, Y Hu, S Scherer - Conference on Robot Learning, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
We present the first learning-based visual odometry (VO) model, which generalizes to
multiple datasets and real-world scenarios and outperforms geometry-based methods in …

End-to-end, sequence-to-sequence probabilistic visual odometry through deep neural networks

S Wang, R Clark, H Wen… - The International Journal …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper studies visual odometry (VO) from the perspective of deep learning. After
tremendous efforts in the robotics and computer vision communities over the past few …

Exploring representation learning with cnns for frame-to-frame ego-motion estimation

G Costante, M Mancini, P Valigi… - IEEE robotics and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual ego-motion estimation, or briefly visual odometry (VO), is one of the key building
blocks of modern SLAM systems. In the last decade, impressive results have been …

Flowdometry: An optical flow and deep learning based approach to visual odometry

P Muller, A Savakis - 2017 IEEE Winter Conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual odometry is a challenging task related to simultaneous localization and map** that
aims to generate a map traveled from a visual data stream. Based on one or two cameras …

LS-VO: Learning dense optical subspace for robust visual odometry estimation

G Costante, TA Ciarfuglia - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work proposes a novel deep network architecture to solve the camera ego-motion
estimation problem. A motion estimation network generally learns features similar to optical …

Uncertainty estimation for data-driven visual odometry

G Costante, M Mancini - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past few years, we have witnessed a considerable diffusion of data-driven visual
odometry (VO) approaches as viable alternatives to standard geometric-based strategies …

DeepAVO: Efficient pose refining with feature distilling for deep Visual Odometry

R Zhu, M Yang, W Liu, R Song, B Yan, Z **ao - Neurocomputing, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The technology for Visual Odometry (VO) that estimates the position and orientation
of the moving object through analyzing the image sequences captured by on-board …