This repository is a reimplementation of the VLOAM algorithm [1]. The LOAM/Lidar Odometry part is adapted and refactored from ALOAM [2], and the Visual Odometry part is written according to the DEMO paper [3].
The following figure [1] illustrates the pipeline of the VLOAM algorithm.
Video: https://youtu.be/NnoxB3r_cDM
Check README.md under src/vloam_main
OpenCV 4.5.1 Eigen3 3.3 Ceres 2.0 PCL 1.2
https://github.com/LeoQLi/KITTI_odometry_evaluation_tool
Place bag files under "src/vloam_main/bags/"
Note: current dataloader only support "synced" type dataset.
[1] J. Zhang and S. Singh. Laser-visual-inertial Odometry and Mapping with High Robustness and Low Drift. Journal of Field Robotics. vol. 35, no. 8, pp. 1242โ1264, 2018.
[2] T. Qin and S. Cao. A-LOAM. https://github.com/HKUST-Aerial-Robotics/A-LOAM
[3] Zhang, Ji, Michael Kaess, and Sanjiv Singh. "Real-time depth enhanced monocular odometry." 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE, 2014.