ResearchResearch paperComputer Vision1 source · Oct 19, 2026

AnchorFlow-VIO: Fixed-Template Monocular Visual-Inertial Odometry on LaMAria

We present AnchorFlow-VIO, an open-source Basalt-derived monocular visual-inertial odometry system, and evaluate a uniform configuration on LaMAria.

Key points

  • The system uses one grayscale camera and one IMU, combining factory IMU correction, a fixed timing adjustment, windowed initialization and fixed-template patch tracking.
  • Server evaluation of all 63 test recordings yields control-point scores of 47.2, 37.1, 24.8, 35.1 and 15.6 for Short, Medium, Long, Low light and Moving platform.
  • Test pose recalls at 5 m are 84.6%, 69.1%, 53.9% and 62.9% for the four categories reporting dense recall.
  • These results characterize the limits of the frozen system and show why complete output, feature counts and selected successful runs are insufficient evidence of robust localization.

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  • [1]AnchorFlow-VIO: Fixed-Template Monocular Visual-Inertial Odometry on LaMAria
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 19, 11:37 AM
    We present AnchorFlow-VIO, an open-source Basalt-derived monocular visual-inertial odometry system, and evaluate a uniform configuration on LaMAria.
    The system uses one grayscale camera and one IMU, combining factory IMU correction, a fixed timing adjustment, windowed initialization and fixed-template patch tracking.

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  1. Oct 16, 2026Dario: “With open source you can see the source code. Here we can’t see inside the model.” My 0.646 t/s MiMo-2.6-Pro crammed thru 128GB of Jetson AGX Thor: “Yeah, well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.”

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