Deepifying SLAM

SLAM in the era of deep learning

1. What is SLAM and why we need it?

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This article is part I of a series that explores the relationship between deep learning and SLAM. We first look at what SLAM is and how it works. This will later on allow us to have deeper insight into which parts of the system can be replaced by a learned counterpart and why. Let’s begin at the…