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We present a real-time tracking SLAM system that unifies efficient camera tracking with photorealistic feature-enriched mapping using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Our main contribution is integrating dense feature rasterization into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Christopher Thirgood , Oscar Mendez , Erin Ling , Jon Storey , Simon Hadfield

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping using RGB-D cameras has been a fertile research topic in the latest decade, due to the suitability of such sensors for indoor robotics. In this paper we propose a direct RGB-D SLAM algorithm with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Alejo Concha , Javier Civera

While the keypoint-based maps created by sparse monocular simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) systems are useful for camera tracking, dense 3D reconstructions may be desired for many robotic tasks. Solutions involving depth cameras…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Tristan Laidlow , Jan Czarnowski , Stefan Leutenegger

We present ESLAM, an efficient implicit neural representation method for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). ESLAM reads RGB-D frames with unknown camera poses in a sequential manner and incrementally reconstructs the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Mohammad Mahdi Johari , Camilla Carta , François Fleuret

In this work, we propose a method for three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of wide crime scene, based on a Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) approach. We used a Kinect V2 Time-of-Flight (TOF) RGB-D camera to provide colored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Silvio Giancola , Daniele Piron , Pasquale Poppa , Remo Sala

Dynamic environments are challenging for visual SLAM since the moving objects occlude the static environment features and lead to wrong camera motion estimation. In this paper, we present a novel dense RGB-D SLAM solution that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Tianwei Zhang , Huayan Zhang , Yang Li , Yoshihiko Nakamura , Lei Zhang

Online reconstruction based on RGB-D sequences has thus far been restrained to relatively slow camera motions (<1m/s). Under very fast camera motion (e.g., 3m/s), the reconstruction can easily crumble even for the state-of-the-art methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Jiazhao Zhang , Chenyang Zhu , Lintao Zheng , Kai Xu

3D scene reconstruction from stereo endoscopic video data is crucial for advancing surgical interventions. In this work, we present an online framework for online, dense 3D scene reconstruction and tracking, aimed at enhancing surgical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Michel Hayoz , Christopher Hahne , Thomas Kurmann , Max Allan , Guido Beldi , Daniel Candinas , ablo Márquez-Neila , Raphael Sznitman

We address the challenging problem of dense dynamic scene reconstruction and camera pose estimation from multiple freely moving cameras -- a setting that arises naturally when multiple observers capture a shared event. Prior approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shuo Sun , Unal Artan , Malcolm Mielle , Achim J. Lilienthaland , Martin Magnusson

Recent developments in 3D Gaussian Splatting have made significant advances in surface reconstruction. However, scaling these methods to large-scale scenes remains challenging due to high computational demands and the complex dynamic…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Shihan Chen , Zhaojin Li , Zeyu Chen , Qingsong Yan , Gaoyang Shen , Ran Duan

Semantic-aware 3D scene reconstruction is essential for autonomous robots to perform complex interactions. Semantic SLAM, an online approach, integrates pose tracking, geometric reconstruction, and semantic mapping into a unified framework,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zuxing Lu , Xin Yuan , Shaowen Yang , Jingyu Liu , Changyin Sun

Creating 3D maps on robots and other mobile devices has become a reality in recent years. Online 3D reconstruction enables many exciting applications in robotics and AR/VR gaming. However, the reconstructions are noisy and generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Maksym Dzitsiuk , Jürgen Sturm , Robert Maier , Lingni Ma , Daniel Cremers

Online augmentation of an oblique aerial image sequence with structural information is an essential aspect in the process of 3D scene interpretation and analysis. One key aspect in this is the efficient dense image matching and depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Boitumelo Ruf , Thomas Pollok , Martin Weinmann

We propose an online object-level SLAM system which builds a persistent and accurate 3D graph map of arbitrary reconstructed objects. As an RGB-D camera browses a cluttered indoor scene, Mask-RCNN instance segmentations are used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-29 John McCormac , Ronald Clark , Michael Bloesch , Andrew J. Davison , Stefan Leutenegger

Jointly estimating camera poses and mapping scenes from RGBD images is a fundamental task in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). State-of-the-art methods employ 3D Gaussians to represent a scene, and render these Gaussians through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Pengchong Hu , Zhizhong Han

3D Gaussian Splatting has emerged as a powerful representation of geometry and appearance for RGB-only dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), as it provides a compact dense map representation while enabling efficient and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Erik Sandström , Keisuke Tateno , Michael Oechsle , Michael Niemeyer , Luc Van Gool , Martin R. Oswald , Federico Tombari

Accurate and robust 3D scene reconstruction from casual, in-the-wild videos can significantly simplify robot deployment to new environments. However, reliable camera pose estimation and scene reconstruction from such unconstrained videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Shuo Sun , Torsten Sattler , Malcolm Mielle , Achim J. Lilienthal , Martin Magnusson

Achieving real-time Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) based on 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) in large-scale real-world environments remains challenging, as existing methods still struggle to jointly achieve low-latency pose…

We introduce MUTE-SLAM, a real-time neural RGB-D SLAM system employing multiple tri-plane hash-encodings for efficient scene representation. MUTE-SLAM effectively tracks camera positions and incrementally builds a scalable multi-map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yifan Yan , Ruomin He , Zhenghua Liu

Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have made a significant impact on rendering and reconstruction techniques. Current research predominantly focuses on improving rendering performance and reconstruction quality using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yinlong Bai , Hongxin Zhang , Sheng Zhong , Junkai Niu , Hai Li , Yijia He , Yi Zhou