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In this paper we introduce Co-Fusion, a dense SLAM system that takes a live stream of RGB-D images as input and segments the scene into different objects (using either motion or semantic cues) while simultaneously tracking and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Martin Rünz , Lourdes Agapito

We propose a novel approach for fast and accurate stereo visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) independent of feature detection and matching. We extend monocular Direct Sparse Odometry (DSO) to a stereo system by optimizing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Jiawei Mo , Md Jahidul Islam , Junaed Sattar

Emerging 3D scene representations, such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), have demonstrated their effectiveness in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) for photo-realistic rendering, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Peng Wang , Lingzhe Zhao , Yin Zhang , Shiyu Zhao , Peidong Liu

DL based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) ship detection has tremendous advantages in numerous areas. However, it still faces some problems, such as the lack of prior knowledge, which seriously affects detection accuracy. In order to solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Han Ke , Xiao Ke , Ye Yan , Rui Liu , Jinpeng Yang , Tianwen Zhang , Xu Zhan , Xiaowo Xu

Monocular vision-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is used for various purposes due to its advantages in cost, simple setup, as well as availability in the environments where navigation with satellites is not effective.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Young-Hee Lee , Chen Zhu , Gabriele Giorgi , Christoph Günther

Traditional simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) methods focus on improvement in the robot's localization under environment and sensor uncertainty. This paper, however, focuses on mitigating the need for exact localization of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Pranay Mathur , Rajesh Kumar , Sarthak Upadhyay

In this paper, we propose a tightly-coupled, multi-modal simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) framework, integrating an extensive set of sensors: IMU, cameras, multiple lidars, and Ultra-wideband (UWB) range measurements, hence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Thien-Minh Nguyen , Shenghai Yuan , Muqing Cao , Thien Hoang Nguyen , Lihua Xie

Accurate perception of dynamic traffic scenes is crucial for high-level autonomous driving systems, requiring robust object motion estimation and instance segmentation. However, traditional methods often treat them as separate tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yinqi Chen , Meiying Zhang , Qi Hao , Guang Zhou

Complementing images with inertial measurements has become one of the most popular approaches to achieve highly accurate and robust real-time camera pose tracking. In this paper, we present a keyframe-based approach to visual-inertial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Anton Kasyanov , Francis Engelmann , Jörg Stückler , Bastian Leibe

A robust nonlinear stochastic observer for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is proposed using the available uncertain measurements of angular velocity, translational velocity, and features. The proposed observer is posed on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Marium Tawhid , Ajay Singh Ludher , Hashim A. Hashim

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has achieved impressive performance in static environments. However, SLAM in dynamic environments remains an open question. Many methods directly filter out dynamic objects, resulting in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Haoang Li , Xiangqi Meng , Xingxing Zuo , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang , Daniel Cremers

We present a novel spectral learning algorithm for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) from range data with known correspondences. This algorithm is an instance of a general spectral system identification framework, from which it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-12 Byron Boots , Geoffrey J. Gordon

In dynamic scenes, both localization and mapping in visual SLAM face significant challenges. In recent years, numerous outstanding research works have proposed effective solutions for the localization problem. However, there has been a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Xinggang Hu

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

Simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) is the problem of autonomous robots to construct or update a map of an undetermined unstructured environment while simultaneously estimate the pose in it. The current trend towards self-driving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-14 B. Udugama

Active Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is the problem of planning and controlling the motion of a robot to build the most accurate and complete model of the surrounding environment. Since the first foundational work in active…

We present a robust, real-time RGB SLAM system that handles dynamic environments by leveraging differentiable Uncertainty-aware Bundle Adjustment. Traditional SLAM methods typically assume static scenes, leading to tracking failures in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Moyang Li , Zihan Zhu , Marc Pollefeys , Daniel Barath

An essential task for a multi-robot system is generating a common understanding of the environment and relative poses between robots. Cooperative tasks can be executed only when a vehicle has knowledge of its own state and the states of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-04 John McConnell , Yewei Huang , Paul Szenher , Ivana Collado-Gonzalez , Brendan Englot

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) stands as one of the critical challenges in robot navigation. A SLAM system often consists of a front-end component for motion estimation and a back-end system for eliminating estimation drifts.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Taimeng Fu , Shaoshu Su , Yiren Lu , Chen Wang

Camera localization aims to estimate 6 DoF camera poses from RGB images. Traditional methods detect and match interest points between a query image and a pre-built 3D model. Recent learning-based approaches encode scene structures into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Shitao Tang , Chengzhou Tang , Rui Huang , Siyu Zhu , Ping Tan