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Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) plays a vital role in real-time localization for autonomous systems. However, traditional SLAM methods, which assume a static environment, often suffer from significant localization drift…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Haolan Zhang , Thanh Nguyen Canh , Chenghao Li , Nak Young Chong

Visual-based recognition, e.g., image classification, object detection, etc., is a long-standing challenge in computer vision and robotics communities. Concerning the roboticists, since the knowledge of the environment is a prerequisite for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Antonios Gasteratos , Konstantinos A. Tsintotas , Tobias Fischer , Yiannis Aloimonos , Michael Milford

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

We present a dense simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method that uses 3D Gaussians as a scene representation. Our approach enables interactive-time reconstruction and photo-realistic rendering from real-world single-camera RGBD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Vladimir Yugay , Yue Li , Theo Gevers , Martin R. Oswald

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…

Multipath-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is an emerging paradigm for accurate indoor localization with limited resources. The goal of multipath-based SLAM is to detect and localize radio reflective surfaces to support…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-30 Erik Leitinger , Alexander Venus , Bryan Teague , Florian Meyer

In this paper, we present SROM, a novel real-time Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system for autonomous vehicles. The keynote of the paper showcases SROM's ability to maintain localization at low sampling rates or at high…

An analysis of the relative motion and point feature model configurations leading to solution degeneracy is presented, for the case of a Simultaneous Localization and Mapping system using multicamera clusters with non-overlapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Michael J. Tribou , David W. L. Wang , Steven L. Waslander

Mobile robots require basic information to navigate through an environment: they need to know where they are (localization) and they need to know where they are going. For the latter, robots need a map of the environment. Using sensors of a…

Applications · Statistics 2007-09-14 Anita Araneda , Stephen E. Fienberg , Alvaro Soto

The mobile robot relies on SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) to provide autonomous navigation and task execution in complex and unknown environments. However, it is hard to develop a dedicated algorithm for mobile robots due to…

In recent years, coordinate-based neural implicit representations have shown promising results for the task of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). While achieving impressive performance on small synthetic scenes, these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Kunyi Li , Michael Niemeyer , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Simultaneous localization and mapping, especially the one relying solely on video data (vSLAM), is a challenging problem that has been extensively studied in robotics and computer vision. State-of-the-art vSLAM algorithms are capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Andrey Bokovoy , Kirill Muraviev , Konstantin Yakovlev

In this study, we propose a novel visual localization approach to accurately estimate six degrees of freedom (6-DoF) poses of the robot within the 3D LiDAR map based on visual data from an RGB camera. The 3D map is obtained utilizing an…

To achieve collaborative tasks, robots in a team need to have a shared understanding of the environment and their location within it. Distributed Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) offers a practical solution to localize the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Pierre-Yves Lajoie , Benjamin Ramtoula , Yun Chang , Luca Carlone , Giovanni Beltrame

Precise and real-time rail vehicle localization as well as railway environment monitoring is crucial for railroad safety. In this letter, we propose a multi-LiDAR based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system for railway…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yusheng Wang , Weiwei Song , Yidong Lou , Fei Huang , Zhiyong Tu , Shimin Zhang

Traditional Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (vSLAM) systems focus solely on static scene structures, overlooking dynamic elements in the environment. Although effective for accurate visual odometry in complex scenarios, these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Jesse Morris , Yiduo Wang , Mikolaj Kliniewski , Viorela Ila

Real-time simultaneously localization and dense mapping is very helpful for providing Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality for surgeons or even surgical robots. In this paper, we propose MIS-SLAM: a complete real-time large scale dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Jingwei Song , Jun Wang , Liang Zhao , Shoudong Huang , Gamini Dissanayake

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

Highly dynamic environments, with moving objects such as cars or humans, can pose a performance challenge for LiDAR SLAM systems that assume largely static scenes. To overcome this challenge and support the deployment of robots in real…

In this work, we explore the use of objects in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in unseen worlds and propose an object-aided system (OA-SLAM). More precisely, we show that, compared to low-level points, the major benefit of objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Matthieu Zins , Gilles Simon , Marie-Odile Berger