XIRVIO: Critic-guided Iterative Refinement for Visual-Inertial Odometry with Explainable Adaptive Weighting

We introduce XIRVIO, a transformer-based Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) framework for monocular visual inertial odometry (VIO). By taking sequences of images and 6-DoF inertial measurements as inputs, XIRVIO’s generator predicts pose trajectories through an iterative refinement process which are then evaluated by the critic to select the iteration with the optimised prediction. Additionally, the self-emergent adaptive sensor weighting reveals how XIRVIO attends to each sensory input based on contextual cues in the data, making it a promising approach for achieving explainability in safety-critical VIO applications. Evaluations on the KITTI dataset demonstrate that XIRVIO matches well-known state-of-the-art learning-based methods in terms of both translation and rotation errors.