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Autonomous navigation for legged robots in complex and dynamic environments relies on robust simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems to accurately map surroundings and localize the robot, ensuring safe and efficient operation.…

Localization and mapping are key capabilities for self-driving vehicles. In this paper, we build on Kimera and extend it to use multiple cameras as well as external (eg wheel) odometry sensors, to obtain accurate and robust odometry…

It is an exciting task to recover the scene's 3d-structure and camera pose from the video sequence. Most of the current solutions divide it into two parts, monocular depth recovery and camera pose estimation. The monocular depth recovery is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-24 YanTong Wu , Yang Liu

We present VIGS-SLAM, a visual-inertial 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM system that achieves robust real-time tracking and high-fidelity reconstruction. Although recent 3DGS-based SLAM methods achieve dense and photorealistic mapping, their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zihan Zhu , Wei Zhang , Moyang Li , Norbert Haala , Marc Pollefeys , Daniel Barath

Positioning is a prominent field of study, notably focusing on Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) methods. Despite their advancements, these methods often encounter dead-reckoning errors that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Pouyan Navard , Alper Yilmaz

Visual-inertial SLAM is crucial in various fields, such as aerial vehicles, industrial robots, and autonomous driving. The fusion of camera and inertial measurement unit (IMU) makes up for the shortcomings of a signal sensor, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Jiaming He , Mingrui Li , Yangyang Wang , Hongyu Wang

Autonomous driving has spurred the development of sensor fusion techniques, which combine data from multiple sensors to improve system performance. In particular, localization system based on sensor fusion , such as Visual Simultaneous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Xiaowen Tao , Pengxiang Meng , Bing Zhu , Jian Zhao

When adapting Simultaneous Mapping and Localization (SLAM) to real-world applications, such as autonomous vehicles, drones, and augmented reality devices, its memory footprint and computing cost are the two main factors limiting the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Yeonsoo Park , Soohyun Bae

The bundle of geometry and appearance in computer vision has proven to be a promising solution for robots across a wide variety of applications. Stereo cameras and RGB-D sensors are widely used to realise fast 3D reconstruction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Xuanpeng Li , Rachid Belaroussi

In this paper, we propose a novel dense surfel mapping system that scales well in different environments with only CPU computation. Using a sparse SLAM system to estimate camera poses, the proposed mapping system can fuse intensity images…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Kaixuan Wang , Fei Gao , Shaojie Shen

Collaborative SLAM is at the core of perception in multi-robot systems as it enables the co-localization of the team of robots in a common reference frame, which is of vital importance for any coordination amongst them. The paradigm of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Manthan Patel , Marco Karrer , Philipp Bänninger , Margarita Chli

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…

High precision localization is a crucial requirement for the autonomous driving system. Traditional positioning methods have some limitations in providing stable and accurate vehicle poses, especially in an urban environment. Herein, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Zhongyang Xiao , Kun Jiang , Shichao Xie , Tuopu Wen , Chunlei Yu , Diange Yang

In this paper we present NR-SLAM, a novel non-rigid monocular SLAM system founded on the combination of a Dynamic Deformation Graph with a Visco-Elastic deformation model. The former enables our system to represent the dynamics of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Juan J. Gomez Rodriguez , J. M. M Montiel , Juan D. Tardos

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…

The application of monocular dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is often hindered by high latency, large GPU memory consumption, and reliance on camera calibration. To relax this constraint, we propose EC3R-SLAM, a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Lingxiang Hu , Naima Ait Oufroukh , Fabien Bonardi , Raymond Ghandour

Monocular visual SLAM enables 3D reconstruction from internet video and autonomous navigation on resource-constrained platforms, yet suffers from scale drift, i.e., the gradual divergence of estimated scale over long sequences. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yuchen Wu , Jiahe Li , Xiaohan Yu , Lina Yu , Jin Zheng , Xiao Bai

Visual SLAM algorithms have been enhanced through the exploration of Gaussian Splatting representations, particularly in generating high-fidelity dense maps. While existing methods perform reliably in static environments, they often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yi Liu , Keyu Fan , Bin Lan , Houde Liu

Robots and autonomous systems need to know where they are within a map to navigate effectively. Thus, simultaneous localization and mapping or SLAM is a common building block of robot navigation systems. When building a map via a SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Luca Di Giammarino , Irvin Aloise , Cyrill Stachniss , Giorgio Grisetti

Recent research on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) based on implicit representation has shown promising results in indoor environments. However, there are still some challenges: the limited scene representation capability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Wenhua Wu , Guangming Wang , Ting Deng , Sebastian Aegidius , Stuart Shanks , Valerio Modugno , Dimitrios Kanoulas , Hesheng Wang