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most citedOKVIS2-X: Open Keyframe-based Visual-Inertial SLAM Configurable with Dense Depth or LiDAR, and GNSS

11 citations · 13 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.RO2026

Scalix: Uncertainty-Aware Scale-Consistent Monocular SLAM

Sebastian Barbas Laina, Tianyi Zhang, Panagiotis Petropoulakis +5

Cameras are ubiquitous sensors in robotics due to their compact form factor and the perceptual richness captured through visual information. Monocular SLAM enables robots to unders…

cs.CV2026

OpenSGA: Efficient 3D Scene Graph Alignment in the Open World

Gang Chen, Sebastián Barbas Laina, Stefan Leutenegger +1

Scene graph alignment establishes object correspondences between two 3D scene graphs constructed from partially overlapping observations. This enables efficient scene understanding…

cs.RO2026

AERO-VIS: Asynchronous Event-based Real-time Onboard Visual-Inertial SLAM

Yannick Burkhardt, Sebastián Barbas Laina, Simon Boche +2

The robustness of event cameras to high dynamic range and motion blur holds the potential to improve visual odometry systems in challenging environments. Although their high tempor…

cs.RO2026

DigiForest: Digital Analytics and Robotics for Sustainable Forestry

Marco Camurri, Enrico Tomelleri, Matías Mattamala +18

Covering one third of Earth's land surface, forests are vital to global biodiversity, climate regulation, and human well-being. In Europe, forests and woodlands reach approximately…

cs.RO2025★ 11 cited

OKVIS2-X: Open Keyframe-based Visual-Inertial SLAM Configurable with Dense Depth or LiDAR, and GNSS

Simon Boche, Jaehyung Jung, Sebastián Barbas Laina +1

To empower mobile robots with usable maps as well as highest state estimation accuracy and robustness, we present OKVIS2-X: a state-of-the-art multi-sensor Simultaneous Localizatio…

cs.RO2025

FindAnything: Open-Vocabulary and Object-Centric Mapping for Robot Exploration in Any Environment

Sebastián Barbas Laina, Simon Boche, Sotiris Papatheodorou +4

Geometrically accurate and semantically expressive map representations have proven invaluable for robot deployment and task planning in unknown environments. Nevertheless, real-tim…

cs.CV2025

REGRACE: A Robust and Efficient Graph-based Re-localization Algorithm using Consistency Evaluation

Débora N. P. Oliveira, Joshua Knights, Sebastián Barbas Laina +3

Loop closures are essential for correcting odometry drift and creating consistent maps, especially in the context of large-scale navigation. Current methods using dense point cloud…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Efficient Submap-based Autonomous MAV Exploration using Visual-Inertial SLAM Configurable for LiDARs or Depth Cameras

Sotiris Papatheodorou, Simon Boche, Sebastián Barbas Laina +1

Autonomous exploration of unknown space is an essential component for the deployment of mobile robots in the real world. Safe navigation is crucial for all robotics applications an…

cs.RO2024

Uncertainty-Aware Visual-Inertial SLAM with Volumetric Occupancy Mapping

Jaehyung Jung, Simon Boche, Sebastián Barbas Laina +1

We propose visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping that tightly couples sparse reprojection errors, inertial measurement unit pre-integrals, and relative pose factors…

cs.CV2024

SOLVR: Submap Oriented LiDAR-Visual Re-Localisation

Joshua Knights, Sebastián Barbas Laina, Peyman Moghadam +1

This paper proposes SOLVR, a unified pipeline for learning based LiDAR-Visual re-localisation which performs place recognition and 6-DoF registration across sensor modalities. We p…

cs.RO2024

Tightly-Coupled LiDAR-Visual-Inertial SLAM and Large-Scale Volumetric Occupancy Mapping

Simon Boche, Sebastián Barbas Laina, Stefan Leutenegger

Autonomous navigation is one of the key requirements for every potential application of mobile robots in the real-world. Besides high-accuracy state estimation, a suitable and glob…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Scalable Outdoors Autonomous Drone Flight with Visual-Inertial SLAM and Dense Submaps Built without LiDAR

Sebastián Barbas Laina, Simon Boche, Sotiris Papatheodorou +4

Autonomous navigation is needed for several robotics applications. In this paper we present an autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) system which purely relies on cost-effective an…