NALO-VOM: Navigation-oriented LiDAR-guided monocular visual odometry and mapping for unmanned ground vehicles

Z Hu, J Yuan, Y Gao, B Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Monocular visual odometry (VO) is a fundamental technique for unmanned ground vehicle
(UGV) navigation. However, traditional monocular VO methods always suffer from sparse …

Nonparametric continuous sensor registration

W Clark, M Ghaffari, A Bloch - Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2021 - jmlr.org
This paper develops a new mathematical framework that enables nonparametric joint
semantic and geometric representation of continuous functions using data. The joint …

Pix2point: Learning outdoor 3d using sparse point clouds and optimal transport

R Leroy, P Trouvé-Peloux… - … on Machine Vision …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Good quality reconstruction and comprehension of a scene rely on 3D estimation methods.
The 3D information was usually obtained from images by stereophotogrammetry, but deep …

Improving depth estimation using map-based depth priors

V Patil, A Liniger, D Dai… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate scene depth is fundamental for robot scene understanding as it adds spatial
reasoning. However, accurate scene depth often comes at the cost of expensive additional …