Kimera-multi: Robust, distributed, dense metric-semantic slam for multi-robot systems

Y Tian, Y Chang, FH Arias… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-robot simultaneous localization and map** (SLAM) is a crucial capability to obtain
timely situational awareness over large areas. Real-world applications demand multi-robot …

Global structure-from-motion revisited

L Pan, D Baráth, M Pollefeys… - European Conference on …, 2024 - Springer
Recovering 3D structure and camera motion from images has been a long-standing focus of
computer vision research and is known as Structure-from-Motion (SfM). Solutions to this …

3dregnet: A deep neural network for 3d point registration

GD Pais, S Ramalingam, VM Govindu… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present 3DRegNet, a novel deep learning architecture for the registration of 3D scans.
Given a set of 3D point correspondences, we build a deep neural network to address the …

Learning multiview 3d point cloud registration

Z Gojcic, C Zhou, JD Wegner… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present a novel, end-to-end learnable, multiview 3D point cloud registration algorithm.
Registration of multiple scans typically follows a two-stage pipeline: the initial pairwise …

Robust multiview point cloud registration with reliable pose graph initialization and history reweighting

H Wang, Y Liu, Z Dong, Y Guo, YS Liu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In this paper, we present a new method for the multiview registration of point cloud. Previous
multiview registration methods rely on exhaustive pairwise registration to construct a …

On the convergence of IRLS and its variants in outlier-robust estimation

L Peng, C Kümmerle, R Vidal - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Outlier-robust estimation involves estimating some parameters (eg, 3D rotations) from data
samples in the presence of outliers, and is typically formulated as a non-convex and non …

Ground and aerial meta-data integration for localization and reconstruction: A review

X Gao, S Shen, Z Hu, Z Wang - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2019 - Elsevier
Localization and reconstruction are two highly related research areas. Both of them have
developed rapidly in recent years. Apparently, with the help of ground and aerial meta-data …

Revisiting rotation averaging: Uncertainties and robust losses

G Zhang, V Larsson, D Barath - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In this paper, we revisit the rotation averaging problem applied in global Structure-from-
Motion pipelines. We argue that the main problem of current methods is the minimized cost …

PanoVLM: Low-Cost and accurate panoramic vision and LiDAR fused map**

D Tu, H Cui, S Shen - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cameras and LiDARs are currently two types of sensors commonly used for 3D map**.
Vision-based methods are susceptible to textureless regions and lighting, and LiDAR-based …

PIPO-SLAM: Lightweight visual-inertial SLAM with preintegration merging theory and pose-only descriptions of multiple view geometry

Y Ge, L Zhang, Y Wu, D Hu - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optimization-based visual-inertial simultaneous localization and map** system (VI-SLAM)
focuses on the establishment of the loss function using both inertial and visual constraints …