Survey On Monocular Odometry For Conventional Smartphones

In the last decade huge amount of research work has been put to realize indoor visual localization with personal smartphones. Considering the available sensors and their capabilities monocular odometry may provide a solution, even regarding strict requirements of augmented reality applications. This paper is aimed to give an overview on the state of the art results regarding monocular visual indoor localization. For this purpose it presents the necessary basics of computer vision and reviews the most promising solutions for different topics.