Geometry-Aware Epipolar Correspondence Graphs for Monocular Visual Odometry
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SFVO is a stereo visual‑odometry framework that leverages pretrained stereo‑matching and optical‑flow models to obtain dense stereo and temporal correspondences. Rather than learning pose directly from images, it maps these correspondences into geometric constraints and predicts trustworthy points using decoupled confidence maps for rotation and translation. Experiments on both outdoor and indoor datasets show that SFVO delivers robust, accurate pose estimation with strong generalization, and the authors plan to release the code.
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.
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