Visual slam: What are the current trends and what to expect?

A Tourani, H Bavle, JL Sanchez-Lopez, H Voos - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems have shown
significant performance, accuracy, and efficiency gain. In this regard, Visual Simultaneous …

Ransac for robotic applications: A survey

JM Martínez-Otzeta, I Rodríguez-Moreno, I Mendialdua… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Random Sample Consensus, most commonly abbreviated as RANSAC, is a robust
estimation method for the parameters of a model contaminated by a sizable percentage of …

Emergent correspondence from image diffusion

L Tang, M Jia, Q Wang, CP Phoo… - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Finding correspondences between images is a fundamental problem in computer vision. In
this paper, we show that correspondence emerges in image diffusion models without any …

Lightglue: Local feature matching at light speed

P Lindenberger, PE Sarlin… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We introduce LightGlue, a deep neural network that learns to match local features across
images. We revisit multiple design decisions of SuperGlue, the state of the art in sparse …

Blink: Multimodal large language models can see but not perceive

X Fu, Y Hu, B Li, Y Feng, H Wang, X Lin, D Roth… - … on Computer Vision, 2025 - Springer
We introduce Blink, a new benchmark for multimodal language models (LLMs) that focuses
on core visual perception abilities not found in other evaluations. Most of the Blink tasks can …

LoFTR: Detector-free local feature matching with transformers

J Sun, Z Shen, Y Wang, H Bao… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present a novel method for local image feature matching. Instead of performing image
feature detection, description, and matching sequentially, we propose to first establish pixel …

Image matching from handcrafted to deep features: A survey

J Ma, X Jiang, A Fan, J Jiang, J Yan - International Journal of Computer …, 2021 - Springer
As a fundamental and critical task in various visual applications, image matching can identify
then correspond the same or similar structure/content from two or more images. Over the …

Hypercorrelation squeeze for few-shot segmentation

J Min, D Kang, M Cho - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Few-shot semantic segmentation aims at learning to segment a target object from a query
image using only a few annotated support images of the target class. This challenging task …

Tapir: Tracking any point with per-frame initialization and temporal refinement

C Doersch, Y Yang, M Vecerik… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present a novel model for Tracking Any Point (TAP) that effectively tracks any queried
point on any physical surface throughout a video sequence. Our approach employs two …

Cotr: Correspondence transformer for matching across images

W Jiang, E Trulls, J Hosang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We propose a novel framework for finding correspondences in images based on a deep
neural network that, given two images and a query point in one of them, finds its …