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| author | Kim, Minkyung Che, Henry Chandaka, Bhargav Pramuanpornsatid, Bhumsitt Yang, Chengyu Cheng, Sheng Wang, Xiaofeng Hovakimyan, Naira Wang, Shenlong |
| author_facet | Kim, Minkyung Che, Henry Chandaka, Bhargav Pramuanpornsatid, Bhumsitt Yang, Chengyu Cheng, Sheng Wang, Xiaofeng Hovakimyan, Naira Wang, Shenlong |
| contents | Accurate visual state estimation has been a central topic in robotics with a wide range of applications in robot navigation, autonomous driving, and autonomous flight. Recent advances in robot perception have led to significant improvements in the accuracy and robustness of state estimation, yet a fundamental challenge remains in how to quantify and calibrate its precision, i.e., how confident we are in an estimate and whether failures can be detected. This issue is particularly pronounced in visual-inertial odometry (VIO), where the heteroscedastic and multimodal nature of the problem makes uncertainty quantification especially difficult. This paper introduces MUSE (Multimodal Uncertainty Quantification of State Estimation), a novel real-time learning-based framework that leverages the strong and efficient sequential modeling capacity of Mamba to estimate localization uncertainty from multiple asynchronous sensor streams. Experiments on both public and in-house datasets demonstrate that MUSE achieves superior reliability and robustness compared to existing uncertainty quantification methods, and ablation studies justify the benefits of its key design choices. |
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| spellingShingle | MUSE: Multimodal Uncertainty Quantification of State Estimation Kim, Minkyung Che, Henry Chandaka, Bhargav Pramuanpornsatid, Bhumsitt Yang, Chengyu Cheng, Sheng Wang, Xiaofeng Hovakimyan, Naira Wang, Shenlong Robotics Accurate visual state estimation has been a central topic in robotics with a wide range of applications in robot navigation, autonomous driving, and autonomous flight. Recent advances in robot perception have led to significant improvements in the accuracy and robustness of state estimation, yet a fundamental challenge remains in how to quantify and calibrate its precision, i.e., how confident we are in an estimate and whether failures can be detected. This issue is particularly pronounced in visual-inertial odometry (VIO), where the heteroscedastic and multimodal nature of the problem makes uncertainty quantification especially difficult. This paper introduces MUSE (Multimodal Uncertainty Quantification of State Estimation), a novel real-time learning-based framework that leverages the strong and efficient sequential modeling capacity of Mamba to estimate localization uncertainty from multiple asynchronous sensor streams. Experiments on both public and in-house datasets demonstrate that MUSE achieves superior reliability and robustness compared to existing uncertainty quantification methods, and ablation studies justify the benefits of its key design choices. |
| title | MUSE: Multimodal Uncertainty Quantification of State Estimation |
| topic | Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17421 |