arXiv Computer Vision

Gravity-aware partially calibrated absolute pose estimation from affine- or rotation-covariant features

arXiv:2608. 20056v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inertial measurement units (IMUs) are now standard in most consumer devices, such as smartphones, drones, and extended reality (XR) headsets.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

A Geometry-Driven, Framework-Agnostic Optimization for Object Pose Estimation

The paper proposes a data‑centric optimization for object pose estimation that uses a physically grounded rotation representation based on principal axes alignment. By aligning an object's coordinate system with its inertial principal axes, the method achieves inherent stability, symmetry‑aware canonicalization, and framework agnosticism, allowing it to be applied at the dataset level without modifying existing networks. Experiments on category‑level and instance‑level models show consistent accuracy improvements while preserving baseline network integrity.

By Wei Chen, Tao Zhen, Zhongchen Shi, Jing Zhang, Liang Xie, Erwei Yin
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

Monocular Visual Odometry without Calibration or Test-time Optimization

The paper introduces CalfVO, a monocular visual odometry system that operates without camera intrinsics, test‑time optimization, bundle adjustment, or loop closure. Using a transformer, it predicts relative poses with separate rotation and translation confidences over overlapping image windows, then aggregates these predictions via a confidence‑weighted module to produce a single trajectory. CalfVO achieves the highest accuracy among calibration‑free methods across five benchmarks and runs at 53 FPS, outperforming all baselines.

By Vladimir Yugay, Duy-Kien Nguyen, Theo Gevers, Cees G. M. Snoek, Martin R. Oswald