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Collaborative SLAM enables a group of agents to simultaneously co-localize and jointly map an environment, thus paving the way to wide-ranging applications of multi-robot perception and multi-user AR experiences by eliminating the need for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Patrik Schmuck , Thomas Ziegler , Marco Karrer , Jonathan Perraudin , Margarita Chli

DUSt3R-based end-to-end scene reconstruction has recently shown promising results in dense visual SLAM. However, most existing methods only use image pairs to estimate pointmaps, overlooking spatial memory and global consistency.To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Guole Shen , Tianchen Deng , Yanbo Wang , Yongtao Chen , Yilin Shen , Jiuming Liu , Jingchuan Wang

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

The 3D reconstruction of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is an important topic in the field for transport systems such as drones, service robots and mobile AR/VR devices. Compared to a point cloud representation, the 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Quentin Picard , Stephane Chevobbe , Mehdi Darouich , Jean-Yves Didier

Obtaining dense 3D reconstrution with low computational cost is one of the important goals in the field of SLAM. In this paper we propose a dense 3D reconstruction framework from monocular multispectral video sequences using jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Yuanhong Xu , Pei Dong , Junyu Dong , Lin Qi

3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM has emerged as a widely used technique for high-fidelity mapping in spatial intelligence. However, existing methods often rely on a single representation scheme, which limits their performance in large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Wenkai Zhu , Xu Li , Qimin Xu , Benwu Wang , Kun Wei , Yiming Peng , Zihang Wang

Neural implicit fields have recently emerged as a powerful representation method for multi-view surface reconstruction due to their simplicity and state-of-the-art performance. However, reconstructing thin structures of indoor scenes while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Shaoxiang Wang , Yaxu Xie , Chun-Peng Chang , Christen Millerdurai , Alain Pagani , Didier Stricker

This article presents a 3D point cloud map-merging framework for egocentric heterogeneous multi-robot exploration, based on overlap detection and alignment, that is independent of a manual initial guess or prior knowledge of the robots'…

Semantic SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) systems enrich robot maps with structural and semantic information, enabling robots to operate more effectively in complex environments. However, these systems struggle in real-world…

We present a method for dynamic surface reconstruction of large-scale urban scenes from LiDAR. Depth-based reconstructions tend to focus on small-scale objects or large-scale SLAM reconstructions that treat moving objects as outliers. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Nathaniel Chodosh , Anish Madan , Simon Lucey , Deva Ramanan

Monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms estimate drone poses and build a 3D map using a single camera. Current algorithms include sparse methods that lack detailed geometry, while learning-driven approaches produce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jeryes Danial , Yosi Ben Asher , Itzik Klein

The ability to extend the field of view of laparoscopy images can help the surgeons to obtain a better understanding of the anatomical context. However, due to tissue deformation, complex camera motion and significant three-dimensional (3D)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Haoyin Zhou , Jagadeesan Jayender

Recovering surgical scene structure in laparoscope surgery is crucial step for surgical guidance and augmented reality applications. In this paper, a quasi dense reconstruction algorithm of surgical scene is proposed. This is based on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Nader Mahmoud , Alexandre Hostettler , Toby Collins , Luc Soler , Christophe Doignon , J. M. M. Montiel

Real-time, high-quality, 3D scanning of large-scale scenes is key to mixed reality and robotic applications. However, scalability brings challenges of drift in pose estimation, introducing significant errors in the accumulated model.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner , Michael Zollhöfer , Shahram Izadi , Christian Theobalt

In many applications, maintaining a consistent dense map of the environment is key to enabling robotic platforms to perform higher level decision making. Several works have addressed the challenge of creating precise dense 3D maps from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Alexander Millane , Zachary Taylor , Helen Oleynikova , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart , César Cadena

Image based reconstruction of urban environments is a challenging problem that deals with optimization of large number of variables, and has several sources of errors like the presence of dynamic objects. Since most large scale approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-29 N. Dinesh Reddy , Prateek Singhal , Visesh Chari , K. Madhava Krishna

Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (CSLAM) is critical to enable multiple robots to operate in complex environments. Most CSLAM techniques rely on raw sensor measurement or low-level features such as keyframe descriptors,…

State-of-the-art methods for large-scale 3D reconstruction from RGB-D sensors usually reduce drift in camera tracking by globally optimizing the estimated camera poses in real-time without simultaneously updating the reconstructed surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Robert Maier , Raphael Schaller , Daniel Cremers

Perceptual aliasing and weak textures pose significant challenges to the task of place recognition, hindering the performance of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems. This paper presents a novel model, called UMF (standing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Alberto García-Hernández , Riccardo Giubilato , Klaus H. Strobl , Javier Civera , Rudolph Triebel

Collaborative object localization aims to collaboratively estimate locations of objects observed from multiple views or perspectives, which is a critical ability for multi-agent systems such as connected vehicles. To enable collaborative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Peng Gao , Rui Guo , Hongsheng Lu , Hao Zhang