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you should start by reading up on optical flow algorithms (unless you know them already). openCV has some of these algorithms. KLT feature tracker is a good one.

Here are links to two ROS packages http://wiki.ros.org/viso2_ros http://www.ros.org/news/2014/06/new-package-svo-semi-direct-monocular-visual-odometry.html

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