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Current techniques in Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM) estimate camera displacement by comparing image features of consecutive scenes. These algorithms depend on scene continuity, hence requires frequent camera inputs.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Mingyang Li , Yue Ma , Qinru Qiu

The performance of visual SLAM in complex, real-world scenarios is often compromised by unreliable feature extraction and matching when using handcrafted features. Although deep learning-based local features excel at capturing high-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Hao Qu , Lilian Zhang , Jun Mao , Junbo Tie , Xiaofeng He , Xiaoping Hu , Yifei Shi , Changhao Chen

The assumption of scene rigidity is typical in SLAM algorithms. Such a strong assumption limits the use of most visual SLAM systems in populated real-world environments, which are the target of several relevant applications like service…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Berta Bescos , José M. Fácil , Javier Civera , José Neira

This letter introduces a novel framework for dense Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM) based on Gaussian Splatting. Recently, SLAM based on Gaussian Splatting has shown promising results. However, in monocular scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Pengcheng Zhu , Yaoming Zhuang , Baoquan Chen , Li Li , Chengdong Wu , Zhanlin Liu

We present a collaborative visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) framework for service robots. With an edge server maintaining a map database and performing global optimization, each robot can register to an existing map,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Ming Ouyang , Xuesong Shi , Yujie Wang , Yuxin Tian , Yingzhe Shen , Dawei Wang , Peng Wang , Zhiqiang Cao

Monocular visual SLAM has become an attractive practical approach for robot localization and 3D environment mapping, since cameras are small, lightweight, inexpensive, and produce high-rate, high-resolution data streams. Although numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Hasnain Vohra , Maxim Bazik , Matthew Antone , Joseph Mundy , William Stephenson

Visual SLAM algorithms achieve significant improvements through the exploration of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) representations, particularly in generating high-fidelity dense maps. However, they depend on a static environment assumption…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yi Liu , Haoxuan Xu , Hongbo Duan , Keyu Fan , Zhengyang Zhang , Peiyu Zhuang , Pengting Luo , Houde Liu

Monocular vision-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is used for various purposes due to its advantages in cost, simple setup, as well as availability in the environments where navigation with satellites is not effective.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Young-Hee Lee , Chen Zhu , Gabriele Giorgi , Christoph Günther

Many existing visual SLAM methods can achieve high localization accuracy in dynamic environments by leveraging deep learning to mask moving objects. However, these methods incur significant computational overhead as the camera tracking…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yuhao Zhang , Mihai Bujanca , Mikel Luján

This paper addresses the problem of scale estimation in monocular SLAM by estimating absolute distances between camera centers of consecutive image frames. These estimates would improve the overall performance of classical (not deep) SLAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Danila Rukhovich , Daniel Mouritzen , Ralf Kaestner , Martin Rufli , Alexander Velizhev

Estimating depth from RGB images can facilitate many computer vision tasks, such as indoor localization, height estimation, and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Recently, monocular depth estimation has obtained great progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Qing Li , Jiasong Zhu , Jun Liu , Rui Cao , Qingquan Li , Sen Jia , Guoping Qiu

Monocular SLAM in deformable scenes will open the way to multiple medical applications like computer-assisted navigation in endoscopy, automatic drug delivery or autonomous robotic surgery. In this paper we propose a novel method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Juan J. Gomez Rodriguez , J. M. M Montiel , Juan D. Tardos

Deep Learning based techniques have been adopted with precision to solve a lot of standard computer vision problems, some of which are image classification, object detection and segmentation. Despite the widespread success of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Vikram Mohanty , Shubh Agrawal , Shaswat Datta , Arna Ghosh , Vishnu Dutt Sharma , Debashish Chakravarty

Neural implicit representations have emerged as a promising solution for providing dense geometry in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). However, existing methods in this direction fall short in terms of global consistency and low…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yunxuan Mao , Xuan Yu , Kai Wang , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong , Yiyi Liao

SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) seeks to provide a moving agent with real-time self-localization. To achieve real-time speed, SLAM incrementally propagates position estimates. This makes SLAM fast but also makes it vulnerable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Huajian Huang , Wen-Yan Lin , Siying Liu , Dong Zhang , Sai-Kit Yeung

Recent advances in neural radiation fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian-based SLAM have achieved impressive localization accuracy and high-quality dense mapping in static scenes. However, these methods remain challenged in dynamic environments,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Wenhua Wu , Chenpeng Su , Siting Zhu , Tianchen Deng , Jianhao Jiao , Guangming Wang , Dimitrios Kanoulas , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

In this paper, we proposed a new deep learning based dense monocular SLAM method. Compared to existing methods, the proposed framework constructs a dense 3D model via a sparse to dense mapping using learned surface normals. With single view…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Jiexiong Tang , John Folkesson , Patric Jensfelt

The real-world deployment of fully autonomous mobile robots depends on a robust SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) system, capable of handling dynamic environments, where objects are moving in front of the robot, and changing…

We propose a novel geometric and photometric 3D mapping pipeline for accurate and real-time scene reconstruction from monocular images. To achieve this, we leverage recent advances in dense monocular SLAM and real-time hierarchical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Antoni Rosinol , John J. Leonard , Luca Carlone

Using the spatial structure of various indoor environments as prior knowledge, the robot would construct the map more efficiently. Autonomous mobile robots generally apply simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) methods to understand…