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Direct Sparse Odometry

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2Mentions
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2.5KGitHub stars
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Direct Sparse Odometry

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-11-14 02:28:01 UTC to 2017-06-07 12:11:52 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012016-11-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-11-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsNov 142016-11-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-11-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-11-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-12-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-12-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-12-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-12-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-02-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-02-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-02-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-02-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-02-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-02-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-02-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 202017-02-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-03-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-03-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-03-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-03-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-03-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-03-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-03-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-03-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-04-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-04-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-04-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-04-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-04-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-04-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-04-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-04-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-05-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-05-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-05-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-05-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-05-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-05-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-05-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-05-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-06-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-06-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-06-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 5

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Nov 142016-11-14 00:00:00 UTC2016-11-21 00:00:00 UTC110
Nov 212016-11-21 00:00:00 UTC2016-11-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 282016-11-28 00:00:00 UTC2016-12-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 52016-12-05 00:00:00 UTC2016-12-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 122016-12-12 00:00:00 UTC2016-12-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 192016-12-19 00:00:00 UTC2016-12-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 262016-12-26 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 22017-01-02 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 92017-01-09 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 162017-01-16 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 232017-01-23 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 302017-01-30 00:00:00 UTC2017-02-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 62017-02-06 00:00:00 UTC2017-02-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 132017-02-13 00:00:00 UTC2017-02-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 202017-02-20 00:00:00 UTC2017-02-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 272017-02-27 00:00:00 UTC2017-03-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 62017-03-06 00:00:00 UTC2017-03-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 132017-03-13 00:00:00 UTC2017-03-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 202017-03-20 00:00:00 UTC2017-03-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 272017-03-27 00:00:00 UTC2017-04-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 32017-04-03 00:00:00 UTC2017-04-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 102017-04-10 00:00:00 UTC2017-04-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 172017-04-17 00:00:00 UTC2017-04-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 242017-04-24 00:00:00 UTC2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 12017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-05-08 00:00:00 UTC000
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May 222017-05-22 00:00:00 UTC2017-05-29 00:00:00 UTC000
May 292017-05-29 00:00:00 UTC2017-06-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 52017-06-05 00:00:00 UTC2017-06-12 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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It seems that ARkit is actually using SLAM as the core technology (in parts, the same technology is being used in autonomous cars and navigating drones). Getting it to work on mobile phones is quite challenging and had been the subject of much research in recent years, some good starting points (with code): ORB-SLAM - https://github.com/raulmur/ORB_SLAM2, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-9PYCKhDLM DSO - https://github.com/JakobEngel/dso, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6-xwSOOdqQ VINS - https://github.com/HKUST-Aerial-Robotics/VINS-Mobile, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mTXnIfFisI&feature=youtu.be (the last one being released just a few days ago...) Of course there are a lot more resources out there and a lot of the cutting edge research is involved with deep learning techniques (starting with e.g. https://github.com/alexgkendall/caff
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e-posenet). You may also want to watch out for this conference http://cvpr2017.thecvf.com/ scheduled for the end of this month and is usually a good source of cutting edge research...
In Apple enters the augmented reality fray with ARKit for iOS

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