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This paper provides a review of deep learning applications in scene understanding in autonomous robots, including innovations in object detection, semantic and instance segmentation, depth estimation, 3D reconstruction, and visual SLAM. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Afia Maham , Dur E Nayab Tashfa

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in highly dynamic environments is challenging due to the correlation complexity between moving objects and the camera pose. Many methods have been proposed to deal with this problem; however, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Tuan Dang , Khang Nguyen , Mandfred Huber

Visual SLAM is essential for mobile robots, drone navigation, and VR/AR, but traditional RGB camera systems struggle in low-light conditions, driving interest in thermal SLAM, which excels in such environments. However, thermal imaging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Yangfan Xu , Qu Hao , Lilian Zhang , Jun Mao , Xiaofeng He , Wenqi Wu , Changhao Chen

Recent progress in dense SLAM has primarily targeted monocular setups, often at the expense of robustness and geometric coverage. We present MCGS-SLAM, the first purely RGB-based multi-camera SLAM system built on 3D Gaussian Splatting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zhihao Cao , Hanyu Wu , Li Wa Tang , Zizhou Luo , Wei Zhang , Marc Pollefeys , Zihan Zhu , Martin R. Oswald

Considering the scene's dynamics is the most effective solution to obtain an accurate perception of unknown environments for real vSLAM applications. Most existing methods attempt to address the non-rigid scene assumption by combining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Ayman Beghdadi , Malik Mallem , Lotfi Beji

Mapping and 3D detection are two major issues in vision-based robotics, and self-driving. While previous works only focus on each task separately, we present an innovative and efficient multi-task deep learning framework (SM3D) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Runfa Li , Truong Nguyen

In this paper, a method for dense semantic 3D scene reconstruction from an RGB-D sequence is proposed to solve high-level scene understanding tasks. First, each RGB-D pair is consistently segmented into 2D semantic maps based on a camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Yingcai Wan , Yanyan Li , Yingxuan You , Cheng Guo , Lijin Fang , Federico Tombari

We present a fast, scalable, and accurate Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system that represents indoor scenes as a graph of objects. Leveraging the observation that artificial environments are structured and occupied by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Akash Sharma , Wei Dong , Michael Kaess

We present the first application of 3D Gaussian Splatting in monocular SLAM, the most fundamental but the hardest setup for Visual SLAM. Our method, which runs live at 3fps, utilises Gaussians as the only 3D representation, unifying the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Hidenobu Matsuki , Riku Murai , Paul H. J. Kelly , Andrew J. Davison

In endoscopy, many applications (e.g., surgical navigation) would benefit from a real-time method that can simultaneously track the endoscope and reconstruct the dense 3D geometry of the observed anatomy from a monocular endoscopic video.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Xingtong Liu , Zhaoshuo Li , Masaru Ishii , Gregory D. Hager , Russell H. Taylor , Mathias Unberath

In many robotic applications, especially for the autonomous driving, understanding the semantic information and the geometric structure of surroundings are both essential. Semantic 3D maps, as a carrier of the environmental knowledge, are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Yucai Bai , Lei Fan , Ziyu Pan , Long Chen

The real-world deployment of fully autonomous mobile robots depends on a robust SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) system, capable of handling dynamic environments, where objects are moving in front of the robot, and changing…

One of the major challenges of a real-time autonomous robotic system for construction monitoring is to simultaneously localize, map, and navigate over the lifetime of the robot, with little or no human intervention. Past research on…

Enabling robots to understand the world in terms of objects is a critical building block towards higher level autonomy. The success of foundation models in vision has created the ability to segment and identify nearly all objects in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Kurran Singh , Tim Magoun , John J. Leonard

In this work, we propose a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system using a monocular camera and Ultra-wideband (UWB) sensors. Our system, referred to as VRSLAM, is a multi-stage framework that leverages the strengths and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Thien Hoang Nguyen , Shenghai Yuan , Lihua Xie

In this paper, we present RKD-SLAM, a robust keyframe-based dense SLAM approach for an RGB-D camera that can robustly handle fast motion and dense loop closure, and run without time limitation in a moderate size scene. It not only can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Haomin Liu , Chen Li , Guojun Chen , Guofeng Zhang , Michael Kaess , Hujun Bao

In complex environments, autonomous robot navigation and environmental perception pose higher requirements for SLAM technology. This paper presents a novel method for semantically enhancing 3D point cloud maps with thermal information. By…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Jiajun Sun , Yangyi Ou , Haoyuan Zheng , Chao yang , Yue Ma

We present a real-time monocular dense SLAM system designed bottom-up from MASt3R, a two-view 3D reconstruction and matching prior. Equipped with this strong prior, our system is robust on in-the-wild video sequences despite making no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Riku Murai , Eric Dexheimer , Andrew J. Davison

Neural implicit representations have recently shown promising progress in dense Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM). However, existing works have shortcomings in terms of reconstruction quality and real-time performance, mainly due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zhen Hong , Bowen Wang , Haoran Duan , Yawen Huang , Xiong Li , Zhenyu Wen , Xiang Wu , Wei Xiang , Yefeng Zheng

Visual scene understanding is an important capability that enables robots to purposefully act in their environment. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to object-class segmentation from multiple RGB-D views using deep learning. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Lingni Ma , Jörg Stückler , Christian Kerl , Daniel Cremers