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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon ethz-asl

Using Maplab with a camera without IMU?

Open DodsGTH94 opened this issue 6 years ago • 2 comments

Hi everyone,

I would like to know if it´s possible to use the Maplab with a camera which has no IMU and which things I would have to change.

Thank you

DodsGTH94 avatar Oct 18 '18 14:10 DodsGTH94

Hi @DodsGTH94 Short answer: no, please don't :) Long answer: In my opinion it doesn't make sense to adapt a visual-inertial framework to use vision only, when there are other frameworks that do just that (e.g. ORB-SLAM). There are just too many places in the framework where we assume the presence of the IMU and you would need to find them all and find a different solution.

mfehr avatar Oct 18 '18 16:10 mfehr

Yeah, that's exactly what I expected. Thank you, I'll investigate other ways!!

Btw beautiful code.

DodsGTH94 avatar Oct 18 '18 17:10 DodsGTH94