arXiv AI

Semantic Semi-Incremental Data-Association-Free Object SLAM

arXiv:2607. 23384v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data association between landmark measurements and landmark variables has long been a central challenge in SLAM, as estimation accuracy depends critically on associating measurements with the correct landmark variables.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 15

FFVO: A Feedforward Pose Decoder for Long-Horizon Visual Odometry

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
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

AutoCompass: Accurate Visual Localization on Public Maps by Learning from Weak Labels

AutoCompass is a supervision method that trains neural map matchers for 3‑DoF visual localization using weak, noisy absolute pose labels. The approach demonstrates that heading labels can be omitted—models learn accurate headings from raw GPS alone—and that defining a tolerance region around GPS improves positional accuracy. When relative pose information from SLAM or SfM is available, it further enhances training, leading to consistent performance gains over models trained with conventional absolute pose labels.

By Javier Tirado-Gar\'in, Alan Savio Paul, Shuai Chen, Axel Barroso-Laguna, Tommaso Cavallari, Daniyar Turmukhambetov, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Eric Brachmann