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This paper presents a novel tightly-coupled keyframe-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system with loop-closing and relocalization capabilities targeted for the underwater domain. Our previous work, SVIn, augmented the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Sharmin Rahman , Alberto Quattrini Li , Ioannis Rekleitis

(Visual) Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) remains a fundamental challenge in enabling autonomous systems to navigate and understand large-scale environments. Traditional SLAM approaches struggle to balance efficiency and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Tian Yi Lim , Boyang Sun , Marc Pollefeys , Hermann Blum

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

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems are fundamental building blocks for any autonomous robot navigating in unknown environments. The SLAM implementation heavily depends on the sensor modality employed on the mobile…

In this paper, we propose an novel implementation of a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system based on a monocular camera from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) using Depth prediction performed with Capsule Networks (CapsNet),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Sunil Prakash , Gaelan Gu

Effectively localizing an agent in a realistic, noisy setting is crucial for many embodied vision tasks. Visual Odometry (VO) is a practical substitute for unreliable GPS and compass sensors, especially in indoor environments. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Marius Memmel , Roman Bachmann , Amir Zamir

We present SLAIM - Simultaneous Localization and Implicit Mapping. We propose a novel coarse-to-fine tracking model tailored for Neural Radiance Field SLAM (NeRF-SLAM) to achieve state-of-the-art tracking performance. Notably, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Vincent Cartillier , Grant Schindler , Irfan Essa

In this paper, we propose an artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced hybrid simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method that performs Bayesian inference directly on raw radio-frequency (RF) signals while learning an environment model…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Alexander Venus , Benjamin Deutschmann , Alexander Fuchs , Christian Knoll , Erik Leitinger

This paper introduces a fully deep learning approach to monocular SLAM, which can perform simultaneous localization using a neural network for learning visual odometry (L-VO) and dense 3D mapping. Dense 2D flow and a depth image are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Cheng Zhao , Li Sun , Pulak Purkait , Tom Duckett , Rustam Stolkin

We present a novel spectral learning algorithm for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) from range data with known correspondences. This algorithm is an instance of a general spectral system identification framework, from which it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-12 Byron Boots , Geoffrey J. Gordon

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

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

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

Event-based visual odometry is a specific branch of visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) techniques, which aims at solving tracking and mapping subproblems (typically in parallel), by exploiting the special working principles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Junkai Niu , Sheng Zhong , Xiuyuan Lu , Shaojie Shen , Guillermo Gallego , Yi Zhou

The advancement of visual tracking has continuously been brought by deep learning models. Typically, supervised learning is employed to train these models with expensive labeled data. In order to reduce the workload of manual annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Ning Wang , Wengang Zhou , Yibing Song , Chao Ma , Wei Liu , Houqiang Li

In this paper, we propose a tightly-coupled, multi-modal simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) framework, integrating an extensive set of sensors: IMU, cameras, multiple lidars, and Ultra-wideband (UWB) range measurements, hence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Thien-Minh Nguyen , Shenghai Yuan , Muqing Cao , Thien Hoang Nguyen , Lihua Xie

Biologically inspired algorithms for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) such as RatSLAM have been shown to yield effective and robust robot navigation in both indoor and outdoor environments. One drawback however is the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Ozan Çatal , Wouter Jansen , Tim Verbelen , Bart Dhoedt , Jan Steckel

Robust efficient loop closure detection is essential for large-scale real-time SLAM. In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised deep neural network architecture of a feature embedding for visual loop closure that is both reliable and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Nate Merrill , Guoquan Huang

Aerial navigation in GPS-denied, indoor environments, is still an open challenge. Drones can perceive the environment from a richer set of viewpoints, while having more stringent compute and energy constraints than other autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Ni Wang , Ozan Catal , Tim Verbelen , Matthias Hartmann , Bart Dhoedt

In recent decades, visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) has gained significant interest in both academia and industry. It estimates camera motion and reconstructs the environment concurrently using visual sensors on a moving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Kunping Huang , Sen Zhang , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao