[HTML][HTML] Visual slam: What are the current trends and what to expect?

A Tourani, H Bavle, JL Sanchez-Lopez, H Voos - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, Simultaneous Localization and Map** (SLAM) systems have shown
significant performance, accuracy, and efficiency gain. In this regard, Visual Simultaneous …

Ransac for robotic applications: A survey

JM Martínez-Otzeta, I Rodríguez-Moreno, I Mendialdua… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Random Sample Consensus, most commonly abbreviated as RANSAC, is a robust
estimation method for the parameters of a model contaminated by a sizable percentage of …

Lightglue: Local feature matching at light speed

P Lindenberger, PE Sarlin… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We introduce LightGlue, a deep neural network that learns to match local features across
images. We revisit multiple design decisions of SuperGlue, the state of the art in sparse …

Emergent correspondence from image diffusion

L Tang, M Jia, Q Wang, CP Phoo… - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Finding correspondences between images is a fundamental problem in computer vision. In
this paper, we show that correspondence emerges in image diffusion models without any …

Tapir: Tracking any point with per-frame initialization and temporal refinement

C Doersch, Y Yang, M Vecerik… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present a novel model for Tracking Any Point (TAP) that effectively tracks any queried
point on any physical surface throughout a video sequence. Our approach employs two …

Blink: Multimodal large language models can see but not perceive

X Fu, Y Hu, B Li, Y Feng, H Wang, X Lin, D Roth… - … on Computer Vision, 2024 - Springer
We introduce Blink, a new benchmark for multimodal language models (LLMs) that focuses
on core visual perception abilities not found in other evaluations. Most of the Blink tasks can …

Efficient LoFTR: Semi-dense local feature matching with sparse-like speed

Y Wang, X He, S Peng, D Tan… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present a novel method for efficiently producing semi-dense matches across images.
Previous detector-free matcher LoFTR has shown remarkable matching capability in …

RoMa: Robust dense feature matching

J Edstedt, Q Sun, G Bökman… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Feature matching is an important computer vision task that involves estimating
correspondences between two images of a 3D scene and dense methods estimate all such …

Grounding image matching in 3d with mast3r

V Leroy, Y Cabon, J Revaud - European Conference on Computer Vision, 2024 - Springer
Image Matching is a core component of all best-performing algorithms and pipelines in 3D
vision. Yet despite matching being fundamentally a 3D problem, intrinsically linked to …

LoFTR: Detector-free local feature matching with transformers

J Sun, Z Shen, Y Wang, H Bao… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present a novel method for local image feature matching. Instead of performing image
feature detection, description, and matching sequentially, we propose to first establish pixel …