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arxiv: 2607.00189 · v1 · pith:7C3RSH6Ynew · submitted 2026-06-30 · 💻 cs.CV

VOCA: Visual Odometry with Codec Awareness

Nouri Alexander Hilscher , Mateo de Mayo , Dominik Muhle , Christoph Otten genannt Hermes , Daniel Cremers This is my paper

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keywords visual odometrycodec awarenesscompressed videostereo trackingcamera pose estimationcausal VOvideo compression artifacts
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VOCA improves causal stereo visual odometry on compressed video by incorporating codec information to reduce artifacts.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces VOCA as a method for camera pose estimation from compressed image streams rather than the raw video used in most prior visual odometry work. Lossy compression creates visual artifacts that degrade standard tracking performance, and the approach shows that codec data can be extracted and used directly inside a causal stereo pipeline to counteract those effects. On standard benchmarks this yields better relative trajectory error, absolute trajectory error, and efficiency than existing causal methods when streams are compressed.

Core claim

VOCA is a causal stereo visual-odometry method that exploits codec information to improve tracking performance. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on causal VO for relative trajectory error, efficiency, and absolute trajectory error on compressed streams.

What carries the argument

The VOCA pipeline, which feeds codec-derived information into a causal stereo visual-odometry estimator to mitigate compression artifacts during pose tracking.

If this is right

  • Real-world spatial world models that receive compressed video can maintain higher tracking accuracy without increasing bandwidth or storage.
  • Perception modules inside planning systems can operate directly on hardware-decoded streams rather than requiring raw frames.
  • Efficiency gains allow longer operation on resource-constrained platforms that already use video codecs.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same codec signals could be tested on other perception tasks such as depth estimation or object tracking that currently assume uncompressed input.
  • Extending the approach beyond stereo to monocular or multi-camera setups would test whether codec awareness generalizes when baseline geometry changes.
  • Integration with learned feature detectors might further reduce reliance on hand-crafted handling of compression noise.

Load-bearing premise

That codec information can be extracted and leveraged in a causal stereo setup to measurably mitigate compression artifacts and produce superior trajectory estimates compared to existing methods on standard benchmarks.

What would settle it

Running VOCA and prior causal stereo methods on the same compressed benchmark streams while withholding all codec metadata and measuring whether the performance gap disappears.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.00189 by Christoph Otten genannt Hermes, Daniel Cremers, Dominik Muhle, Mateo de Mayo, Nouri Alexander Hilscher.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Visual Odometry on Compressed Videos. We present VOCA, a novel Visual Odometry system that produces smoother, more stable trajectories than descriptor-based systems such as ORB-SLAM3 and OKVIS2, thanks to its codec-aware sparse optical-flow frontend. Our system enables Visual Odometry on data compressed by up to 100 ×. We visualize challenging segments with dashed-red markers, sampled from three different … view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Video encoding can introduce artifacts that violate the photometric-constancy assumption used by most tracking algorithms. Examples from datasets used in this work: EV203 (from EuRoC [6]) shows blurred details, TR2 (from TUM-VI room [54]) exhibits reduced contrast in the thin net, and MOO02 (from MSD [39]) contains geo￾metrically jagged edges/textures. See [35] for additional artifacts. causal estimates, m… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Encoded information. Video codecs assign motion vectors to macroblock partitions and sub-partitions. They encode local block motion as a displacement to an intensity-matched block in a reference frame. The figure shows a frame with macroblock partitions (left), its motion vectors (center), and the normalized discrete vector field they induce (right). While this field is correlated with optical flow, it is … view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Proximity to the minimum. VOCA uses motion vectors as priors for opti￾cal flow, which significantly reduces the distance to the ground-truth solution, possibly improving convergence times and the likelihood that the initial state lies in the con￾vergence basin of the non-linear problem. This figure shows the error distributions of pixel distances between the prior guesses (initialization) and the final tra… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative trajectory examples. To showcase the quality of VOCA trajec￾tories, in addition to [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: MSD overview. We indicate divergences and resets with gray ∞ and ⟳, respectively. First-place ranks for each sequence are shown in green, and non-first ranks are shown in blue. See the supplementary for the detailed numbers of each run. 4.5 Ablation Study We consider three strategies for integrating motion vectors (MV) into tracking, balancing the strength of the MV prior against the risk of propagating ou… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Median ATE/RTE vs. Bitrate. Lower bitrates lead to smaller file sizes. Numbers indicate a success rate of less than 100% for ATE. VOCA shows stable per￾formance even at low bitrates. As a tracking-based system, Basalt [64] suffers from com￾pression artifacts, especially on the TUM-VI dataset. ORB-SLAM3 [7] shows steady performance in ATE on TUM-VI but delivers poor performance in RTE. This indicates good g… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Symbols and shading follow the conventions of Tab. 5. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: H.264 and AV1 motion-vector priors on TUM-VI Room. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_8.png] view at source ↗
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Camera pose estimation from image streams is a critical component of spatial world models that integrate perception into planning and decision-making. Nearly all Visual Odometry (VO) and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (V-SLAM) systems have focused on datasets containing raw, uncompressed videos. Many working systems instead use ubiquitous hardware units to efficiently compress and decode video streams, saving orders of magnitude in storage and bandwidth. However, this lossy compression introduces visual artifacts that hinder the performance of traditional tracking systems. We present VOCA, a causal stereo visual-odometry method that exploits codec information to improve tracking performance. We achieve state-of-the-art performance on causal VO for relative trajectory error, efficiency, and absolute trajectory error on compressed streams. This work highlights the potential of leveraging widely available video codec information for vision tasks.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript presents VOCA, a causal stereo visual-odometry method that exploits codec information to improve tracking performance. It claims state-of-the-art results for relative trajectory error, efficiency, and absolute trajectory error on compressed streams, highlighting the use of widely available video codec side information for vision tasks.

Significance. If the results hold, the work addresses a practical gap by showing how codec side information can mitigate compression artifacts in causal stereo VO, which could improve robustness and efficiency in real-world systems that rely on compressed video rather than raw streams.

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  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim of achieving SOTA performance on RTE, efficiency, and ATE for causal VO on compressed streams is unsupported, as the text provides no experimental setup, datasets, baselines, quantitative results, or validation details.

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and positive assessment of the practical relevance of exploiting codec side information in causal stereo visual odometry. We address the single major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim of achieving SOTA performance on RTE, efficiency, and ATE for causal VO on compressed streams is unsupported, as the text provides no experimental setup, datasets, baselines, quantitative results, or validation details.

    Authors: Abstracts are concise summaries and do not contain experimental details by design. The full manuscript provides the requested information: Section 4 describes the experimental setup and datasets (including compressed streams from standard benchmarks), Section 5 details the baselines and quantitative comparisons, and Tables 1-3 report the RTE, efficiency, and ATE results demonstrating state-of-the-art performance for causal VO. These sections validate the abstract claims with specific metrics and ablation studies. revision: no

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The paper describes an empirical method for causal stereo visual odometry that incorporates codec side information to mitigate compression artifacts. No derivation chain, equations, fitted parameters, uniqueness theorems, or ansatzes are presented in the provided text. Claims reduce to experimental results on standard benchmarks (RTE, ATE, efficiency), which are externally falsifiable and not equivalent to inputs by construction. No self-citation load-bearing steps or renamings of known results appear. This is the expected outcome for a systems/implementation paper without mathematical derivations.

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