Kimera: an open-source library for real-time metric-semantic localization and map**

A Rosinol, M Abate, Y Chang… - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We provide an open-source C++ library for real-time metric-semantic visual-inertial
Simultaneous Localization And Map** (SLAM). The library goes beyond existing visual …

Kimera: From SLAM to spatial perception with 3D dynamic scene graphs

A Rosinol, A Violette, M Abate… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Humans are able to form a complex mental model of the environment they move in. This
mental model captures geometric and semantic aspects of the scene, describes the …

Long-term visual localization revisited

C Toft, W Maddern, A Torii… - … on Pattern Analysis …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual localization enables autonomous vehicles to navigate in their surroundings and
augmented reality applications to link virtual to real worlds. Practical visual localization …

MicMac–a free, open-source solution for photogrammetry

E Rupnik, M Daakir, M Pierrot Deseilligny - Open geospatial data, software …, 2017 - Springer
The publication familiarizes the reader with MicMac-a free, open-source photogrammetric
software for 3D reconstruction. A brief history of the tool, its organisation and unique features …

Robust global translations with 1dsfm

K Wilson, N Snavely - European conference on computer vision, 2014 - Springer
We present a simple, effective method for solving structure from motion problems by
averaging epipolar geometries. Based on recent successes in solving for global camera …

Global fusion of relative motions for robust, accurate and scalable structure from motion

P Moulon, P Monasse, R Marlet - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2013 - cv-foundation.org
Multi-view structure from motion (SfM) estimates the position and orientation of pictures in a
common 3D coordinate frame. When views are treated incrementally, this external …

Initialization techniques for 3D SLAM: A survey on rotation estimation and its use in pose graph optimization

L Carlone, R Tron, K Daniilidis… - 2015 IEEE international …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pose graph optimization is the non-convex optimization problem underlying pose-based
Simultaneous Localization and Map** (SLAM). If robot orientations were known, pose …

City-scale localization for cameras with known vertical direction

L Svärm, O Enqvist, F Kahl… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the problem of localizing a novel image in a large 3D model, given that the
gravitational vector is known. In principle, this is just an instance of camera pose estimation …

Global motion estimation from point matches

M Arie-Nachimson, SZ Kovalsky… - … conference on 3D …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiview structure recovery from a collection of images requires the recovery of the
positions and orientations of the cameras relative to a global coordinate system. Our …

Long-term visual localization using semantically segmented images

E Stenborg, C Toft… - 2018 IEEE international …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robust cross-seasonal localization is one of the major challenges in long-term visual
navigation of autonomous vehicles. In this paper, we exploit recent advances in semantic …