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The integration of neural rendering and the SLAM system recently showed promising results in joint localization and photorealistic view reconstruction. However, existing methods, fully relying on implicit representations, are so…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Huajian Huang , Longwei Li , Hui Cheng , Sai-Kit Yeung

Automatic identification of script is an essential component of a multilingual OCR engine. In this paper, we present an efficient, lightweight, real-time and on-device spatial attention based CNN-LSTM network for scene text script…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Rutika Moharir , Arun D Prabhu , Sukumar Moharana , Gopi Ramena , Rachit S Munjal

Recent research on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) based on implicit representation has shown promising results in indoor environments. However, there are still some challenges: the limited scene representation capability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Wenhua Wu , Guangming Wang , Ting Deng , Sebastian Aegidius , Stuart Shanks , Valerio Modugno , Dimitrios Kanoulas , Hesheng Wang

The comprehensive representation and understanding of the driving environment is crucial to improve the safety and reliability of autonomous vehicles. In this paper, we present a new approach to establish an environment model containing a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Nico Engel , Stefan Hoermann , Philipp Henzler , Klaus Dietmayer

As an essential component of visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), place recognition is crucial for robot navigation and autonomous driving. Existing methods often formulate visual place recognition as feature matching, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Han Wang , Chen Wang , Lihua Xie

Accurate lane detection is critical for navigation in autonomous vehicles, particularly the active lane which demarcates the single road space that the vehicle is currently traveling on. Recent state-of-the-art lane detection algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Zhe Ming Chng , Joseph Mun Hung Lew , Jimmy Addison Lee

Loop closure detection (LCD) is the key module in appearance based simultaneously localization and mapping (SLAM). However, in the real life, the appearance of visual inputs are usually affected by the illumination changes and texture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Peng Yin , Yuqing He , Na Liu , Jianda Han

Line matching plays an essential role in structure from motion (SFM) and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), especially in low-textured and repetitive scenes. In this paper, we present a new method of using a graph convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 QuanMeng Ma , Guang Jiang , DianZhi Lai

Using the spatial structure of various indoor environments as prior knowledge, the robot would construct the map more efficiently. Autonomous mobile robots generally apply simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) methods to understand…

Loop Closure Detection (LCD) has been proved to be extremely useful in global consistent visual Simultaneously Localization and Mapping (SLAM) and appearance-based robot relocalization. Methods exploiting binary features in bag of words…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Lei Han , Lu Fang

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

Lane detection in driving scenes is an important module for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems. In recent years, many sophisticated lane detection methods have been proposed. However, most methods focus on detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Qin Zou , Hanwen Jiang , Qiyu Dai , Yuanhao Yue , Long Chen , Qian Wang

Robots operating in the open world encounter various different environments that can substantially differ from each other. This domain gap also poses a challenge for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) being one of the fundamental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Niclas Vödisch , Daniele Cattaneo , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

The process of simultaneously mapping the environment in three dimensional (3D) space and localizing a moving vehicle's pose (orientation and position) is termed Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). SLAM is a core task in robotics…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-13 Trevor P. Drayton , Abdul A. Jaiyeola , Nazmul Hoque , Mikhayla Maurer , Hashim A. Hashim

Grid maps are widely used in robotics to represent obstacles in the environment and differentiating dynamic objects from static infrastructure is essential for many practical applications. In this work, we present a methods that uses a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Florian Piewak , Timo Rehfeld , Michael Weber , J. Marius Zöllner

Continuous sign language recognition (SLR) is a challenging task that requires learning on both spatial and temporal dimensions of signing frame sequences. Most recent work accomplishes this by using CNN and RNN hybrid networks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Ka Leong Cheng , Zhaoyang Yang , Qifeng Chen , Yu-Wing Tai

In recent years, there have been significant advancements in 3D reconstruction and dense RGB-D SLAM systems. One notable development is the application of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) in these systems, which utilizes implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Tianchen Deng , Yanbo Wang , Hongle Xie , Hesheng Wang , Jingchuan Wang , Danwei Wang , Weidong Chen

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) have made the real-time dense reconstruction possible increasing the prospects of navigation, tracking, and augmented reality problems. Some breakthroughs have been achieved in this regard during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Redhwan Jamiruddin , Ali Osman Sari , Jahanzaib Shabbir , Tarique Anwer

Loop closure, as one of the crucial components in SLAM, plays an essential role in correcting the accumulated errors. Traditional appearance-based methods, such as bag-of-words models, are often limited by local 2D features and the volume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Zhenzhong Cao

Visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a key module of robotics and low-speed autonomous vehicles, which is usually limited by the high computation burden for practical applications. To this end, an innovative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Bingxiang Kang , Jie Zou , Guofa Li , Pengwei Zhang , Jie Zeng , Kan Wang , Jie Li