UWslam is a dataset for underwater stereo and hybrid monocular fisheye + stereo SLAM in natural seafloor environments. The dataset includes a spiral survey of a shallow reef captured with a diver operated stereo rig and 4 hybrid image sequences captured with a deep ocean ROV in different deep ocean environments. Ground truth pose estimates for the spiral stereo trajectory were obtained by processing the image sequence through COLMAP. Ground truth pose estimates for the hybrid sequences were obtained by distributing fiducials on the seafloor before capturing an image sequence and processing the image sequences with the ROS based TagSLAM package.
G. Billings, R. Camilli and M. Johnson-Roberson, "Hybrid Visual SLAM for Underwater Vehicle Manipulator Systems," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 6798-6805, July 2022, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2022.3176448.
