Map** for autonomous driving: Opportunities and challenges

K Wong, Y Gu, S Kamijo - IEEE Intelligent Transportation …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article provides a review of the production and uses of maps for autonomous driving
and a synthesis of the opportunities and challenges. For many years, maps have helped …

[PDF][PDF] Cerberus: Autonomous legged and aerial robotic exploration in the tunnel and urban circuits of the darpa subterranean challenge

M Tranzatto, F Mascarich, L Bernreiter… - ar** and localization
T Schneider, M Dymczyk, M Fehr… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robust and accurate visual-inertial estimation is crucial to many of today's challenges in
robotics. Being able to localize against a prior map and obtain accurate and drift-free pose …

Topomap: Topological map** and navigation based on visual slam maps

F Blochliger, M Fehr, M Dymczyk… - … on Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual robot navigation within large-scale, semistructured environments deals with various
challenges such as computation intensive path planning algorithms or insufficient …

{SwarmMap}: Scaling up real-time collaborative visual {SLAM} at the edge

J Xu, H Cao, Z Yang, L Shangguan, J Zhang… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2022 - usenix.org
The Edge-based Multi-agent visual SLAM plays a key role in emerging mobile applications
such as search-and-rescue, inventory automation, and drone grou**. This algorithm relies …

Large-scale, real-time visual–inertial localization revisited

S Lynen, B Zeisl, D Aiger, M Bosse… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The overarching goals in image-based localization are scale, robustness, and speed. In
recent years, approaches based on local features and sparse 3D point-cloud models have …

Scenesqueezer: Learning to compress scene for camera relocalization

L Yang, R Shrestha, W Li, S Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Standard visual localization methods build a priori 3D model of a scene which is used to
establish correspondences against the 2D keypoints in a query image. Storing these pre …

Privacy preserving image-based localization

P Speciale, JL Schonberger, SB Kang… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Image-based localization is a core component of many augmented/mixed reality (AR/MR)
and autonomous robotic systems. Current localization systems rely on the persistent storage …

Sacreg: Scene-agnostic coordinate regression for visual localization

J Revaud, Y Cabon, R Brégier… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Scene coordinates regression (SCR) ie predicting 3D coordinates for every pixel of a given
image has recently shown promising potential. However existing methods remain limited to …

Collaborative visual SLAM using compressed feature exchange

D Van Opdenbosch, E Steinbach - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the field of robotics, collaborative simultaneous localization and map** (SLAM) is still a
challenging problem. The exploration of unknown large-scale environments benefits from …