OpenVSLAM

Abstract

Visual simultaneous localization and mapping (VSLAM) systems are essential for augmented reality devices, autonomous control of robots and drones, etc. However, conventional open-source visual SLAM frameworks are not designed to be called as libraries from third-party programs. To overcome this situation, we have developed OpenVSLAM [1-3], a novel visual SLAM framework, and released it as open-source software under the 2-clause BSD license. OpenVSLAM was presented and won first place in ACM Multimedia 2019 Open Source Software Competition. In this article, we show examples of using OpenVSLAM and hope that this encourages and enables further use of OpenVSLAM in research and development.