8 accepted papers
Incrementally recovering 3D dense structures from monocular videos is of paramount importance since it enables various robotics and AR applications. Feature volumes have recently been shown to enable efficient and accurate incremental dense reconstruction without the need to first estimate depth, bu
We propose a keypoint-based object-level SLAM framework that can provide globally consistent 6DoF pose estimates for symmetric and asymmetric objects alike. To the best of our knowledge, our system is among the first to utilize the camera pose information from SLAM to provide prior knowledge for tra…
In this work, we present a lightweight, tightly-coupled deep depth network and visual-inertial odometry (VIO) system, which can provide accurate state estimates and dense depth maps of the immediate surroundings. Leveraging the proposed lightweight Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE) for dept…
In this work we augment our prior state-of-the-art visual-inertial odometry (VIO) system, OpenVINS [1], to produce accurate dense depth by filling in sparse depth estimates (depth completion) from VIO with image guidance – all while focusing on enabling real-time performance of the full VIO+depth sy…
In this paper we investigate the effect of tightly-coupled estimation on the performance of visual-inertial localization and dynamic object pose tracking. In particular, we show that while a joint estimation system outperforms its decoupled counterpart when given a "proper" model for the target's mo…
Aiming for a lightweight and robust localization solution for low-cost, low-power autonomous robot platforms, such as educational or industrial ground vehicles, under challenging conditions (e.g., poor sensor calibration, low lighting and dynamic objects), we propose a two-stage localization system…
Traditional attempts for loop closure detection typically use hand-crafted features, relying on geometric and visual information only, whereas more modern approaches tend to use semantic, appearance or geometric features extracted from deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). While these approache…
Robust efficient loop closure detection is essential for large-scale real-time SLAM. In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised deep neural network architecture of a feature embedding for visual loop closure that is both reliable and compact. Our model is built upon the autoencoder architecture,…