Contact: Jakob Engel, Prof. Dr. Daniel Cremers Check out DSO, our new Direct & Sparse Visual Odometry Method published in July 2016, and its stereo extension published in August 2017 here: DSO: Direct Sparse Odometry LSD-SLAM is a novel, direct monocular SLAM technique: Instead of using keypoints, it directly operates on image intensities both for tracking and mapping. The camera is tracked using