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DAVIO: Dense Monocular-Inertial SLAM with Feed-Forward Initialization and Pose-Conditioned Mapping
A camera and an IMU are the minimal sensor setup for metric localization and dense mapping, yet classical visual--inertial filters must wait for parallax before they start and then retain only sparse landmarks. Feed-forward geometry models, in contrast, predict dense structure from a few images but provide neither metr …