<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Dear all,</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;" class="">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">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.
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">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.</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">
</span><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">A preprint discussing the system architecture, several use-cases, and evaluations of the system on public datasets is available</span></li></ul><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> on arXiv: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10250" class="">https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10250</a></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Matlab is made available under the permissive Apache2 license and can be downloaded from:</span></li></ul></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> <a href="https://github.com/ethz-asl/maplab" class="">https://github.com/ethz-asl/maplab</a></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">
</span><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">A video demonstrating some of its capabilities is available at:</span></li></ul><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); vertical-align: baseline;" class=""> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ta7w_cs1lU" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ta7w_cs1lU</a></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">
</span><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">We are happy to share this with you all, and look forward to your feedback.</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">
</span><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Best,</span></div><div class="">Maplab Team @ ASL ETH Zürich</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">
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