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This paper focuses on efficient landmark management in radar based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Landmark management is necessary in order to maintain a consistent map of the estimated landmarks relative to the estimate of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Shuai Sun , Beth Jelfs , Kamran Ghorbani , Glenn Matthews , Christopher Gilliam

Visual position recognition affects the safety and accuracy of automatic driving. To accurately identify the location, this paper studies a visual place recognition algorithm based on HMM filter and HMM smoother. Firstly, we constructed the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Bailu Guo , Boyu Zhao , Zishun Zhou

In this paper, we propose a novel loop closure detection algorithm that uses graph attention neural networks to encode semantic graphs to perform place recognition and then use semantic registration to estimate the 6 DoF relative pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Liudi Yang , Ruben Mascaro , Ignacio Alzugaray , Sai Manoj Prakhya , Marco Karrer , Ziyuan Liu , Margarita Chli

The Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (V-SLAM) system has seen significant development in recent years, demonstrating high precision in environments with limited dynamic objects. However, their performance significantly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Taozhe Li , Wei Sun

Fiducial markers can encode rich information about the environment and can aid Visual SLAM (VSLAM) approaches in reconstructing maps with practical semantic information. Current marker-based VSLAM approaches mainly utilize markers for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Ali Tourani , Hriday Bavle , Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez , Rafael Munoz Salinas , Holger Voos

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (vSLAM) is a widely used technique in robotics and computer vision that enables a robot to create a map of an unfamiliar environment using a camera sensor while simultaneously tracking its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yasaman Haghighi , Suryansh Kumar , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Luc Van Gool

This paper implements Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technique to construct a map of a given environment. A Real Time Appearance Based Mapping (RTAB-Map) approach was taken for accomplishing this task. Initially, a 2d…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Sagarnil Das

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

A number of lane detection methods depend on a proposal-free instance segmentation because of its adaptability to flexible object shape, occlusion, and real-time application. This paper addresses the problem that pixel embedding in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Seokwoo Jung , Sungha Choi , Mohammad Azam Khan , Jaegul Choo

The integration of a SLAM algorithm with place recognition technology empowers it with the ability to mitigate accumulated errors and to relocalize itself. However, existing methods for point cloud-based place recognition predominantly rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Haodong Yuan , Yudong Zhang , Shengyin Fan , Xue Li , Jian Wang

Accurate and robust global localization is essential to robotics applications. We propose a novel global localization method that employs the map traversability as a hidden observation. The resulting map-corrected odometry localization is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Cheng Peng , David Weikersdorfer

Combining Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) estimation and dynamic scene modelling can highly benefit robot autonomy in dynamic environments. Robot path planning and obstacle avoidance tasks rely on accurate estimations of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Jun Zhang , Mina Henein , Robert Mahony , Viorela Ila

Conventional SLAM algorithms takes a strong assumption of scene motionlessness, which limits the application in real environments. This paper tries to tackle the challenging visual SLAM issue of moving objects in dynamic environments. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Handuo Zhang , Karunasekera Hasith , Han Wang

Robust visual localization for urban vehicles remains challenging and unsolved. The limitation of computation efficiency and memory size has made it harder for large-scale applications. Since semantic information serves as a stable and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Ziwei Liao , Jieqi Shi , Xianyu Qi , Xiaoyu Zhang , Wei Wang , Yijia He , Ran Wei , Xiao Liu

Visual perception plays an important role in autonomous driving. One of the primary tasks is object detection and identification. Since the vision sensor is rich in color and texture information, it can quickly and accurately identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Fei Liu , Zihao Lu , Xianke Lin

Monocular camera systems are prevailing in intelligent transportation systems, but by far they have rarely been used for dimensional purposes such as to accurately estimate the localization information of a vehicle. In this paper, we show…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Shuaijun Li , Yu Meng , Wei Li , Huihuan Qian , Yangsheng Xu

Compared to LiDAR-based localization methods, which provide high accuracy but rely on expensive sensors, visual localization approaches only require a camera and thus are more cost-effective while their accuracy and reliability typically is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Gabriel L. Oliveira , Noha Radwan , Wolfram Burgard , Thomas Brox

In this work, we develop a monocular SLAM-aware object recognition system that is able to achieve considerably stronger recognition performance, as compared to classical object recognition systems that function on a frame-by-frame basis. By…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-06-08 Sudeep Pillai , John Leonard

Robustness and safety are crucial properties for the real-world application of autonomous vehicles. One of the most critical components of any autonomous system is localisation. During the last 20 years there has been significant progress…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Siqi Yi , Stewart Worrall , Eduardo Nebot

Visual place recognition is essential for vision-based robot localization and SLAM. Despite the tremendous progress made in recent years, place recognition in changing environments remains challenging. A promising approach to cope with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Reihaneh Mirjalili , Michael Krawez , Wolfram Burgard