[visionlist] [software] Maplab - An Open Visual-Inertial Mapping Framework

[Juan Nieto]

Dear all,

We are excited to announce the open-sourcing of maplab, an open, research-oriented visual-inertial mapping framework for creating, processing and manipulating multi-session maps.

On the one hand, maplab can be seen as a ready-to-use visual-inertial mapping and localization system. On the other hand, maplab provides the research community with a collection of multi-session mapping tools that include map merging, visual-inertial batch optimization, and loop closure. Furthermore, it includes an online frontend that can create visual-inertial maps and also track a global drift-free pose within a localization map. Maplab has been developed at ETH’s Autonomous Systems Lab and served as a basis for numerous research-projects in visual-inertial localization and mapping.

A preprint discussing the system architecture, several use-cases, and evaluations of the system on public datasets is available
	 on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10250 <https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10250>

Matlab is made available under the permissive Apache2 license and can be downloaded from:
         https://github.com/ethz-asl/maplab <https://github.com/ethz-asl/maplab>
A video demonstrating some of its capabilities is available at:
         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ta7w_cs1lU <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ta7w_cs1lU>
We are happy to share this with you all, and look forward to your feedback.

Best,
Maplab Team @ ASL ETH Zürich



Juan Nieto   |   Deputy Director
Autonomous Systems Lab   |  ETH Zürich, LEE J 219
Leonhardstrasse 21   |   Zürich 8092, Switzerland
Ph: +41 44 633 87 49  |  http://www.nietojuan.com <http://www.nietojuan.com/> 

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