Accurate six-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) motion estimation is essential for robotic manipulation, autonomous systems, and structural displacement monitoring. Conventional 3D-2D methods estimate absolute camera poses independently at each time and recover platform motion through camera-to-platform extrinsics, making them sensitive to extrinsic calibration errors, especially for micromotion.
arXiv:2609.13733v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Stable and reliable 4D spatial understanding is fundamental for autonomous driving systems. While feedforward reconstruction networks can estimate came...
By Meng-Li Shih, Shih-Yang Su, Yuliang Zou, Hao Xiang, Haidong Zhu, Vincent Casser, Brian Curless, Dmitry Kalenichenko, Mingxing Tan, Dragomir Anguelov
The paper introduces a minimalist visual-inertial odometry system that uses only four downward-facing photodiodes with optical Gabor masks and an IMU to estimate motion for differential-drive robots. By jointly optimizing mask parameters and a Temporal Convolutional Network in a physically-grounded simulator, the model decodes speed from the photodiode signals and combines it with IMU angular speed to produce a continuous planar trajectory. Experiments on a prototype robot across indoor and outdoor terrains show that the system closely follows reference trajectories without real-world fine-tuning.
By Francesco Pasti, Jeremy Klotz, Nicola Bellotto, Shree K. Nayar
arXiv:2608.24223v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Event-based motion estimation is central to tasks that demand high temporal resolution and robustness to fast motion. Existing methods typically rely o...
By Lei Sun, Yuqin Ma, Weilun Li, Haoran Liang, Runyi Yang, Kaiwei Wang, Danda Pani Paudel, Luc Van Gool
arXiv:2610.33356v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Event cameras provide microsecond temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and sparse asynchronous measurements, making them compelling for odometry un...
By Matteo Cascone, David Jensen, Alessandro Pirini, Angelo Stefanini, Pietro Ven\`e, Marta Tintor\'e Gazulla, Javier Hidalgo Carri\`o
The paper introduces a reliability-regulated trajectory optimization framework for progressive COLMAP‑free 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). It uses a self‑supervised bidirectional cycle‑consistency mechanism to control camera trajectory estimation through forward motion propagation and retrospective trajectory correction, thereby reducing error compounding without external priors. Experiments on Tanks and Temples and CO3D‑V2 demonstrate improved camera trajectory accuracy and novel‑view rendering quality compared to existing unposed baselines.
By Zijian Wu, Jinliang Wang, Zidian Lin, Ying Song, Ziqian Lu, Hanjie Ma, Zhen Ye, Mingfeng Jiang
DAPEVO is a learned visual odometry system that independently estimates image and event correspondences at shared patch locations and fuses their correlation evidence before motion refinement. It maintains image and event descriptors for each tracked patch, using a learned scalar gate to combine modality-specific correlation embeddings for each patch–frame edge, followed by a shared recurrent refinement and bundle‑adjustment update. The method supports event‑only observations and modality‑aware keyframe culling, achieving low trajectory error even when RGB frames are sparse or degraded, outperforming DPVO, RAMP‑VO, and event‑only DEVO on UZH‑FPV and TartanEvent datasets.
By Luca Gandolfi, Simone Nascivera, Roberto Pellerito, Rong Zou, Chiara Plizzari, Davide Scaramuzza
arXiv:2607.08098v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Event cameras are increasingly adopted in embodied perception for their microsecond temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and resilience to moti...
By Linli Shi, Ruijun Zhang, Ziyun Wang
arXiv:2610.19857v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recovering 3D human motion from sparse wearable sensors is challenging due to the inherent noise, occlusion, and instability of real-world tracking sig...
By Minghao Liu, Tutian Tang
arXiv:2509.04600v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Reconstructing global human motion from monocular video is fundamental to VR, graphics, and robotics, yet remains ill-posed due to depth ambiguity,...
By Zhongyuan Hu, Qijun Ying, Jiazhi Shu, Ronghui Li, Yu Lu, Zijiao Zeng, Xiu Li
arXiv:2609.06074v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Sparse optical flow provides stable inter-frame correspondence, playing a key role in Visual Odometry (VO) and Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO). Clas...
By Yicheng Lin, Zhipeng Fei, Yuxiu Xu, WenDong Chen, Cong Li, Bin Han
arXiv:2609.24482v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Monocular 3D human pose estimation (HPE) remains challenging due to depth ambiguity, occlu- sions, and the need for temporal consistency. While multi-v...
By Mena Kamel, Natalie Won, Amrut Sarangi, Sven Jager, Albert Pla Planas