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First of all, for graph-slam you need to establish relative constraints between your key frames. With only (visual) odometry, you cannot do optimization. If you create pointclouds from your depth-camera, you can use ICP to create constraints between key frames. Then you can add all key frames and constraints to your optimizer (e.g. g2o) to create a global map.

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