The list of vision-based SLAM / Visual Odometry open source and papers

RGB(Monocular)

LSD-SLAM
Source : https://github.com/tum-vision/lsd_slam
Publications :
LSD-SLAM: Large-Scale Direct Monocular SLAM, J. Engel, T. Schöps, D. Cremers, ECCV '14 
Semi-Dense Visual Odometry for a Monocular Camera, J. Engel, J. Sturm, D. Cremers, ICCV '13
Available on ROS : Yes

ORB-SLAM
Source : https://github.com/raulmur/ORB_SLAM
Website: http://webdiis.unizar.es/~raulmur/orbslam/
Publications : ORB-SLAM: A Versatile and Accurate Monocular SLAM System
Available on ROS : Yes


Nister's Five Point Algorithm for Essential Matrix estimation, and FAST features, with a KLT tracker
Source : https://github.com/avisingh599/mono-vo
Website: http://avisingh599.github.io/vision/monocular-vo/
Publications: http://avisingh599.github.io/assets/ugp2-report.pdf
Available on ROS : No

RGB-D

OpenCV RGBD-Odometry (Visual Odometry based RGB-D images)

Source : https://github.com/tzutalin/OpenCV-RgbdOdometry

Website: https://github.com/tzutalin/OpenCV-RgbdOdometry

Publications: Real-Time Visual Odometry from Dense RGB-D Images, F. Steinbucker, J. Strum, D. Cremers, ICCV, 2011
Available on ROS : No

Dense Visual SLAM for RGB-D Cameras

Source : https://github.com/tum-vision/dvo_slam

Website: http://vision.in.tum.de/data/software/dvo

Publications: Dense Visual SLAM for RGB-D Cameras

Available on ROS : Yes

RTAB MAP - Real-Time Appearance-Based Mapping

Source : https://github.com/introlab/rtabmap

Website:  http://wiki.ros.org/rtabmap

Publications:  

Online Global Loop Closure Detection for Large-Scale Multi-Session Graph-Based SLAM, 2014

Appearance-Based Loop Closure Detection for Online Large-Scale and Long-Term Operation, 2013

Available on ROS : Yes

ORB2-SLAM
Source : https://github.com/raulmur/ORB_SLAM2
Website: http://webdiis.unizar.es/~raulmur/orbslam/
Publications : ORB-SLAM: A Versatile and Accurate Monocular SLAM System

Available on ROS : Yes

Useful third parties

Basic library
OpenCV
Eigen
Sophus
ROS
PointCloud

Loop detection
dorian3d

Graph Optimization
ceres-solver
g2o
gtasm
Vertigo

Map library
Grip Map 
OmniMapper 
OctoMap

Other useful references

Openslam : Introduce some other SLAM systems and open sources
Kintinuous : Real-time large scale dense visual SLAM system
InfiniTAM : A Framework for the Volumetric Integration of Depth Images
ElasticFusion : Real-time dense visual SLAM system

RGB-D dataset download

TUM Universtiy 

KTTI Vision benchmark

RGB-D tools

https://vision.in.tum.de/data/datasets/rgbd-dataset/tools