DefVINS is a visual‑inertial odometry pipeline tailored for deformable scenes, breaking the rigidity assumption of traditional VIO. It decomposes the odometry state into a rigid, IMU‑anchored component and a non‑rigid scene warp using an embedded deformation graph. The authors also introduce VIMandala, the first real‑world benchmark with ground‑truth camera poses for deformable VIO, and extend the synthetic Drunkard’s benchmark with inertial data, demonstrating that DefVINS outperforms both rigid and non‑rigid baselines.
By Samuel Cerezo, Javier Civera
arXiv:2609.38054v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We present Pow3R-SLAM, a real-time RGB-D simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system that uses Pow3R for tracking and mapping. Inspired by MA...
By Christopher Kolios, Ishaan Mehta, Sasa Janjic, Yeganeh Bahoo, Sajad Saeedi
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
arXiv:2607.11099v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Reliable visual data association is fundamental to visual SLAM (V-SLAM), as it directly determines the quality of the camera pose estimation...
By Ting-Wei Ou, Huang-Ting Lin, Kuu-Young Young
arXiv:2609.15795v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Streaming geometric foundation models are emerging as a compelling alternative to SLAM systems. Yet this streaming nature introduces a fundamental issu...
By Mingkai Liu, Hao Zhao, Xingxing Zuo
arXiv:2609.15795v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Streaming geometric foundation models are emerging as a compelling alternative to SLAM systems. Yet this streaming nature introduces a fundamental...
By Mingkai Liu, Hao Zhao, Xingxing Zuo