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Visual SLAM in dynamic environments remains challenging, as several existing methods rely on semantic filtering that only handles known object classes, or use fixed robust kernels that cannot adapt to unknown moving objects, leading to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-21 João Carlos Virgolino Soares , Gabriel Fischer Abati , Claudio Semini

Indirect methods for visual SLAM are gaining popularity due to their robustness to environmental variations. ORB-SLAM2 \cite{orbslam2} is a benchmark method in this domain, however, it consumes significant time for computing descriptors…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Qiang Fu , Hongshan Yu , Xiaolong Wang , Zhengeng Yang , Yong He , Hong Zhang , Ajmal Mian

Visual SLAM is particularly challenging in environments affected by noise, varying lighting conditions, and darkness. Learning-based optical flow algorithms can leverage multiple modalities to address these challenges, but traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Youjie Zhou , Guofeng Mei , Yiming Wang , Yi Wan , Fabio Poiesi

The paper focuses on the algorithm for improving the quality of 3D reconstruction and segmentation in DSP-SLAM by enhancing the RGB image quality. SharpSLAM algorithm developed by us aims to decrease the influence of high dynamic motion on…

The unscented Kalman filter is a nonlinear estimation algorithm commonly used in navigation applications. The prediction of the mean and covariance matrix is crucial to the stable behavior of the filter. This prediction is done by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Amit Levy , Itzik Klein

A robust visual localization and mapping system is essential for warehouse robot navigation, as cameras offer a more cost-effective alternative to LiDAR sensors. However, existing forward-facing camera systems often encounter challenges in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Kuan Xu , Zheng Yang , Lihua Xie , Chen Wang

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a method that constructs a map of an unknown environment and localizes the position of a moving agent on the map simultaneously. Extended Kalman filter (EKF) has been widely adopted as a low…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-19 Geon Choi , Jeonghun Park , Nir Shlezinger , Yonina C. Eldar , Namyoon Lee

We make modifications to the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) which bestow almost complete practical identifiability upon a lumped-parameter cardiovascular model with 10 parameters and 4 output observables - a highly non-linear, stiff problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Alex Thornton , Ian Halliday , Harry Saxton , Xu Xu

In the field of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), researchers have always pursued better performance in terms of accuracy and time cost. Traditional algorithms typically rely on fundamental geometric elements in images to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zhang Zhihe

We present a real-time tracking SLAM system that unifies efficient camera tracking with photorealistic feature-enriched mapping using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Our main contribution is integrating dense feature rasterization into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Christopher Thirgood , Oscar Mendez , Erin Ling , Jon Storey , Simon Hadfield

For VSLAM (Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), localization is a challenging task, especially for some challenging situations: textureless frames, motion blur, etc.. To build a robust exploration and localization system in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Weinan Chen , Lei Zhu , Yisheng Guan , C. Ronald Kube , Hong Zhang

The Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) is a well established technique for position and velocity estimation. However, the performance of the EKF degrades considerably in highly non-linear system applications as it requires local linearisation in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Sanat Biswas , Li Qiao , Andrew Dempster

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a process of concurrent estimation of the vehicle's pose and feature locations with respect to a frame of reference. This paper proposes a computationally cheap geometric nonlinear SLAM filter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Hashim A. Hashim , Abdelrahman E. E. Eltoukhy

We present FoundationSLAM, a learning-based monocular dense SLAM system that addresses the absence of geometric consistency in previous flow-based approaches for accurate and robust tracking and mapping. Our core idea is to bridge flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yuchen Wu , Jiahe Li , Fabio Tosi , Matteo Poggi , Jin Zheng , Xiao Bai

Achieving highly accurate dynamic or simulator models that are close to the real robot can facilitate model-based controls (e.g., model predictive control or linear-quadradic regulators), model-based trajectory planning (e.g., trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Alexander Schperberg , Yusuke Tanaka , Feng Xu , Marcel Menner , Dennis Hong

Recent 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) techniques for Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) have significantly progressed in tracking and high-fidelity mapping. However, their sequential optimization framework and sensitivity to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Wancai Zheng , Linlin Ou , Jiajie He , Libo Zhou , Xinyi Yu , Yan Wei

We propose a novel feature re-identification method for real-time visual-inertial SLAM. The front-end module of the state-of-the-art visual-inertial SLAM methods (e.g. visual feature extraction and matching schemes) relies on feature tracks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Xiongfeng Peng , Zhihua Liu , Qiang Wang , Yun-Tae Kim , Myungjae Jeon

An image-based control strategy along with estimation of target motion is developed to track dynamic targets without motion constraints. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that utilizes a bounding box as image features for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Jun-Ming Li , Ching Wen Chen , Teng-Hu Cheng

Performing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in low-visibility conditions, such as environments filled with smoke, dust and transparent objets, has long been a challenging task. Sensors like cameras and Light Detection and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Fuhua Jia , Xiaoying Yang , Mengshen Yang , Yang Li , Hang Xu , Adam Rushworth , Salman Ijaz , Heng Yu , Tianxiang Cui

The static world assumption is standard in most simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) algorithms. Increased deployment of autonomous systems to unstructured dynamic environments is driving a need to identify moving objects and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Mina Henein , Jun Zhang , Robert Mahony , Viorela Ila