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Central to robot exploration and mapping is the task of persistent localization in environmental fields characterized by spatially correlated measurements. This paper presents a Gaussian process localization (GP-Localize) algorithm that, in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Nuo Xu , Kian Hsiang Low , Jie Chen , Keng Kiat Lim , Etkin Baris Ozgul

Propagating input uncertainty through non-linear Gaussian process (GP) mappings is intractable. This hinders the task of training GPs using uncertain and partially observed inputs. In this paper we refer to this task as "semi-described…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-09-04 Andreas Damianou , Neil D. Lawrence

Gaussian process (GP) models provide a powerful tool for prediction but are computationally prohibitive using large data sets. In such scenarios, one has to resort to approximate methods. We derive an approximation based on a composite…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-02 Xiuming Liu , Dave Zachariah , Edith C. H. Ngai

We propose an efficient and scalable method for incrementally building a dense, semantically annotated 3D map in real-time. The proposed method assigns class probabilities to each region, not each element (e.g., surfel and voxel), of the 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-08 Yoshikatsu Nakajima , Keisuke Tateno , Federico Tombari , Hideo Saito

Semantic map models visualize systematic relations among semantic functions through graph structures and are widely used in linguistic typology. However, existing construction methods either depend on labor-intensive expert reasoning or on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhu Liu , Zhen Hu , Lei Dai , Yu Xuan , Ying Liu

This work introduces the concept of parametric Gaussian processes (PGPs), which is built upon the seemingly self-contradictory idea of making Gaussian processes parametric. Parametric Gaussian processes, by construction, are designed to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-08 Maziar Raissi

We introduce a novel method for discerning optical telescope images of stars from those of galaxies using Gaussian processes (GPs). Although applications of GPs often struggle in high-dimensional data modalities such as optical image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Amanda L. Muyskens , Imène R. Goumiri , Benjamin W. Priest , Michael D. Schneider , Robert E. Armstrong , Jason M. Bernstein , Ryan Dana

We introduce new Gaussian Process (GP) high-order approximations to linear operations that are frequently used in various numerical methods. Our method employs the kernel-based GP regression modeling, a non-parametric Bayesian approach to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Christopher DeGrendele , Dongwook Lee

We present a novel algorithm for real-time planar semantic mapping tailored for humanoid robots navigating complex terrains such as staircases. Our method is adaptable to any odometry input and leverages GPU-accelerated processes for planar…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Teng Bin , Jianming Yao , Tin Lun Lam , Tianwei Zhang

With the emergence of Gaussian Splats, recent efforts have focused on large-scale scene geometric reconstruction. However, most of these efforts either concentrate on memory reduction or spatial space division, neglecting information in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Butian Xiong , Xiaoyu Ye , Tze Ho Elden Tse , Kai Han , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Gaussian processes (GPs) serve as flexible surrogates for complex surfaces, but buckle under the cubic cost of matrix decompositions with big training data sizes. Geospatial and machine learning communities suggest pseudo-inputs, or…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-05 D. Austin Cole , Ryan Christianson , Robert B. Gramacy

Navigation and mapping on the lunar surface require robust perception under challenging conditions, including poorly textured environments, high-contrast lighting, and limited computational resources. This paper presents a real-time mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Guillem Casadesus Vila , Adam Dai , Grace Gao

Gaussian process (GP) regression is a powerful probabilistic modeling technique with built-in uncertainty quantification. When one has access to multiple correlated simulations (tasks), it is common to fit a multitask GP (MTGP) surrogate…

Computation · Statistics 2026-03-18 Aleksei G. Sorokin , Pieterjan Robbe , Fred J. Hickernell

We present a mapping algorithm to compute large-scale magnetic field maps in indoor environments with approximate Gaussian process (GP) regression. Mapping the spatial variations in the ambient magnetic field can be used for localization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-01 Clara Menzen , Marnix Fetter , Manon Kok

We examine the general problem of inter-domain Gaussian Processes (GPs): problems where the GP realization and the noisy observations of that realization lie on different domains. When the mapping between those domains is linear, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Luhuan Wu , Andrew Miller , Lauren Anderson , Geoff Pleiss , David Blei , John Cunningham

Efficient navigation through uneven terrain remains a challenging endeavor for autonomous robots. We propose a new geometric-based uneven terrain mapless navigation framework combining a Sparse Gaussian Process (SGP) local map with a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Abe Leininger , Mahmoud Ali , Hassan Jardali , Lantao Liu

Traditional SLAM algorithms excel at camera tracking, but typically produce incomplete and low-resolution maps that are not tightly integrated with semantics prediction. Recent work integrates Gaussian Splatting (GS) into SLAM to enable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Mingqi Jiang , Chanho Kim , Chen Ziwen , Li Fuxin

Recent work on simultaneous trajectory estimation and mapping (STEAM) for mobile robots has found success by representing the trajectory as a Gaussian process. Gaussian processes can represent a continuous-time trajectory, elegantly handle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Xinyan Yan , Vadim Indelman , Byron Boots

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive novel view synthesis performance. While conventional methods require per-scene optimization, more recently several feed-forward methods have been proposed to generate pixel-aligned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Shengjun Zhang , Xin Fei , Fangfu Liu , Haixu Song , Yueqi Duan

Recent works propose extending 3DGS with semantic feature vectors for simultaneous semantic segmentation and image rendering. However, these methods often treat the semantic and rendering branches separately, relying solely on 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jingming He , Chongyi Li , Shiqi Wang , Sam Kwong