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We introduce Dynamic Gaussian Splatting SLAM (DGS-SLAM), the first dynamic SLAM framework built on the foundation of Gaussian Splatting. While recent advancements in dense SLAM have leveraged Gaussian Splatting to enhance scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Mangyu Kong , Jaewon Lee , Seongwon Lee , Euntai Kim

Blending representation learning approaches with simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems is an open question, because of their highly modular and complex nature. Functionally, SLAM is an operation that transforms raw sensor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula , Soroush Saryazdi , Ganesh Iyer , Liam Paull

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a process of concurrent estimation of the vehicle's pose and feature locations with respect to a frame of reference. This paper proposes a computationally cheap geometric nonlinear SLAM filter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Hashim A. Hashim , Abdelrahman E. E. Eltoukhy

Recent advances in neural radiation fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian-based SLAM have achieved impressive localization accuracy and high-quality dense mapping in static scenes. However, these methods remain challenged in dynamic environments,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Wenhua Wu , Chenpeng Su , Siting Zhu , Tianchen Deng , Jianhao Jiao , Guangming Wang , Dimitrios Kanoulas , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has wide robotic applications such as autonomous driving and unmanned aerial vehicles. Both computational efficiency and localization accuracy are of great importance towards a good SLAM system.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Han Wang , Chen Wang , Chun-Lin Chen , Lihua Xie

Most Simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) systems have traditionally assumed a static world, which does not align with real-world scenarios. To enable robots to safely navigate and plan in dynamic environments, it is essential to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Jesse Morris , Yiduo Wang , Viorela Ila

Recently neural radiance fields (NeRF) have been widely exploited as 3D representations for dense simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Despite their notable successes in surface modeling and novel view synthesis, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jiarui Hu , Xianhao Chen , Boyin Feng , Guanglin Li , Liangjing Yang , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui

We propose GauS-SLAM, a dense RGB-D SLAM system that leverages 2D Gaussian surfels to achieve robust tracking and high-fidelity mapping. Our investigations reveal that Gaussian-based scene representations exhibit geometry distortion under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yongxin Su , Lin Chen , Kaiting Zhang , Zhongliang Zhao , Chenfeng Hou , Ziping Yu

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems with novel view synthesis capabilities are widely used in computer vision, with applications in augmented reality, robotics, and autonomous driving. However, existing approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Vladimir Yugay , Theo Gevers , Martin R. Oswald

In this paper, we propose a RGB-D SLAM system that reconstructs a language-aligned dense feature field while sustaining low-latency tracking and mapping. First, we introduce a Top-K Rendering pipeline, a high-throughput and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Seongbo Ha , Sibaek Lee , Kyungsu Kang , Joonyeol Choi , Seungjun Tak , Hyeonwoo Yu

SLAM systems based on NeRF have demonstrated superior performance in rendering quality and scene reconstruction for static environments compared to traditional dense SLAM. However, they encounter tracking drift and mapping errors in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Mingrui Li , Yiming Zhou , Guangan Jiang , Tianchen Deng , Yangyang Wang , Hongyu Wang

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) technology has recently achieved photorealistic mapping capabilities thanks to the real-time, high-fidelity rendering enabled by 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). However, due to the static…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhicong Sun , Jacqueline Lo , Jinxing Hu

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) plays a vital role in mapping unknown spaces and aiding autonomous navigation. Virtually all state-of-the-art solutions today for 2D SLAM are designed for dense and accurate sensors such as laser…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Hanzhi Zhou , Zichao Hu , Sihang Liu , Samira Khan

There are many possibilities for how to represent the map in simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM). While sparse, keypoint-based SLAM systems have achieved impressive levels of accuracy and robustness, their maps may not be suitable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Tristan Laidlow , Andrew J. Davison

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems are fundamental building blocks for any autonomous robot navigating in unknown environments. The SLAM implementation heavily depends on the sensor modality employed on the mobile…

In this paper, we consider the problems in the practical application of visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). With the popularization and application of the technology in wide scope, the practicability of SLAM system has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 BaoSheng Zhang

Thermal cameras offer strong potential for robot perception under challenging illumination and weather conditions. However, thermal Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) remains difficult due to unreliable feature extraction,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Zeyu Jiang , Kuan Xu , Changhao Chen

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has gained significant attention for its application in dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), enabling real-time rendering and high-fidelity mapping. However, existing 3DGS-based SLAM methods often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Ziheng Xu , Qingfeng Li , Chen Chen , Xuefeng Liu , Jianwei Niu

Simultaneous localization and mapping, especially the one relying solely on video data (vSLAM), is a challenging problem that has been extensively studied in robotics and computer vision. State-of-the-art vSLAM algorithms are capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Andrey Bokovoy , Kirill Muraviev , Konstantin Yakovlev

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms perform visual-inertial estimation via filtering or batch optimization methods. Empirical evidence suggests that filtering algorithms are computationally faster, while optimization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-05 Amay Saxena , Chih-Yuan Chiu , Joseph Menke , Ritika Shrivastava , Shankar Sastry