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Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) is one of the fundamental problems in autonomous mobile robots where a robot needs to reconstruct a previously unseen environment while simultaneously localising itself with respect to the map.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Tin Lai

Deep learning has driven significant progress in object detection using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery. Existing methods, while achieving promising results, often struggle to effectively integrate local and global information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Mingxiang Cao , Weiying Xie , Jie Lei , Jiaqing Zhang , Daixun Li , Yunsong Li

Decentralized multi-robot LiDAR-SLAM is essential for collaborative missions but faces significant challenges in maintaining global consistency. Existing frameworks predominantly rely on local-search optimization or one-time coordinate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Baoshan Song , Feng Huang , Li-Ta Hsu

We introduce a method for real-time navigation and tracking with differentiably rendered world models. Learning models for control has led to impressive results in robotics and computer games, but this success has yet to be extended to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Baris Kayalibay , Atanas Mirchev , Patrick van der Smagt , Justin Bayer

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

In this letter, we present a neural field-based real-time monocular mapping framework for accurate and dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Recent neural mapping frameworks show promising results, but rely on RGB-D or pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Wei Zhang , Tiecheng Sun , Sen Wang , Qing Cheng , Norbert Haala

Moving objects can greatly jeopardize the performance of a visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) system which relies on the static-world assumption. Motion removal have seen successful on solving this problem. Two main…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Ting Sun , Yuxiang Sun , Ming Liu , Dit-Yan Yeung

Collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping (CSLAM) is essential for autonomous aerial swarms, laying the foundation for downstream algorithms such as planning and control. To address existing CSLAM systems' limitations in relative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Hao Xu , Peize Liu , Xinyi Chen , Shaojie Shen

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a key tool for monitoring construction sites, where aligning the evolving as-built state with the as-planned design enables early error detection and reduces costly rework. LiDAR-based SLAM…

Within the field of automated driving, a clear trend in environment perception tends towards more sensors, higher redundancy, and overall increase in computational power. This is mainly driven by the paradigm to perceive the entire…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Matti Henning , Johannes Müller , Fabian Gies , Michael Buchholz , Klaus Dietmayer

Traditional approaches for Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM) rely on low-level vision information for state estimation, such as handcrafted local features or the image gradient. While significant progress has been made…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Huaiyang Huang , Haoyang Ye , Yuxiang Sun , Lujia Wang , Ming Liu

Determining the position and orientation of a sensor vis-a-vis its surrounding, while simultaneously mapping the environment around that sensor or simultaneous localization and mapping is quickly becoming an important advancement in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Joonas Lomps , Artjom Lind , Amnir Hadachi

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with implicit neural representations has received extensive attention due to the expressive representation power and the innovative paradigm of continual learning. However, deploying such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Baicheng Li , Zike Yan , Dong Wu , Hanqing Jiang , Hongbin Zha

In this paper, we present a new system for live collaborative dense surface reconstruction. Cooperative robotics, multi participant augmented reality and human-robot interaction are all examples of situations where collaborative mapping can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Louis Gallagher , John B. McDonald

Holistic scene understanding poses a fundamental contribution to the autonomous operation of a robotic agent in its environment. Key ingredients include a well-defined representation of the surroundings to capture its spatial structure as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Niclas Vödisch

In addition to environmental perception sensors such as cameras, radars, etc. in the automatic driving system, the external environment of the vehicle is perceived, in fact, there is also a perception sensor that has been silently dedicated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Han Lei , Baoming Wang , Zuwei Shui , Peiyuan Yang , Penghao Liang

We present a visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) framework of closing surface loops. It combines both sparse feature matching and dense surface alignment. Sparse feature matching is used for visual odometry and globally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Guoxiang Zhang , YangQuan Chen

The dynamic factors in the environment will lead to the decline of camera localization accuracy due to the violation of the static environment assumption of SLAM algorithm. Recently, some related works generally use the combination of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Xinggang Hu , Yunzhou Zhang , Zhenzhong Cao , Rong Ma , Yanmin Wu , Zhiqiang Deng , Wenkai Sun

In the field of SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) for robot navigation, mapping the environment is an important task. In this regard the Lidar sensor can produce near accurate 3D map of the environment in the format of point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Aritra Mukherjee , Sourya Dipta Das , Jasorsi Ghosh , Ananda S. Chowdhury , Sanjoy Kumar Saha

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems are an essential component in agricultural robotics that enable autonomous navigation and the construction of accurate 3D maps of agricultural fields. However, lack of texture,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Mohamad Qadri , George Kantor