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Multi-camera systems have been shown to improve the accuracy and robustness of SLAM estimates, yet state-of-the-art SLAM systems predominantly support monocular or stereo setups. This paper presents a generic sparse visual SLAM framework…

We present a robust and accurate depth refinement system, named GeoRefine, for geometrically-consistent dense mapping from monocular sequences. GeoRefine consists of three modules: a hybrid SLAM module using learning-based priors, an online…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Pan Ji , Qingan Yan , Yuxin Ma , Yi Xu

In this paper, we present an omnidirectional localization and dense mapping system for a wide-baseline multiview stereo setup with ultra-wide field-of-view (FOV) fisheye cameras, which has a 360 degrees coverage of stereo observations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Changhee Won , Hochang Seok , Zhaopeng Cui , Marc Pollefeys , Jongwoo Lim

We propose a novel approach for fast and accurate stereo visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) independent of feature detection and matching. We extend monocular Direct Sparse Odometry (DSO) to a stereo system by optimizing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Jiawei Mo , Md Jahidul Islam , Junaed Sattar

We present a new technique that achieves a significant reduction in the quantity of measurements required for a fusion based dense 3D mapping system to converge to an accurate, de-noised surface reconstruction. This is achieved through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Louis Gallagher , John B. McDonald

We propose SNI-SLAM, a semantic SLAM system utilizing neural implicit representation, that simultaneously performs accurate semantic mapping, high-quality surface reconstruction, and robust camera tracking. In this system, we introduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Siting Zhu , Guangming Wang , Hermann Blum , Jiuming Liu , Liang Song , Marc Pollefeys , Hesheng Wang

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 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

Datasets have gained an enormous amount of popularity in the computer vision community, from training and evaluation of Deep Learning-based methods to benchmarking Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Without a doubt, synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Wenbin Li , Sajad Saeedi , John McCormac , Ronald Clark , Dimos Tzoumanikas , Qing Ye , Yuzhong Huang , Rui Tang , Stefan Leutenegger

We introduce a high-fidelity neural implicit dense visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system, termed DF-SLAM. In our work, we employ dictionary factors for scene representation, encoding the geometry and appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Weifeng Wei , Jie Wang , Shuqi Deng , Jie Liu

We consider uplink frugal simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in phase-coherent distributed MIMO (D-MIMO) systems, where a network of spatially separated single-antenna access points (APs) coherently receives narrowband,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Yu Ge , Xin Tong , Nenad Vukmirović , Musa Furkan Keskin , Miljko Erić , Petar Djurić , Henk Wymeersch

In this paper, we present RKD-SLAM, a robust keyframe-based dense SLAM approach for an RGB-D camera that can robustly handle fast motion and dense loop closure, and run without time limitation in a moderate size scene. It not only can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Haomin Liu , Chen Li , Guojun Chen , Guofeng Zhang , Michael Kaess , Hujun Bao

The representation of geometry in real-time 3D perception systems continues to be a critical research issue. Dense maps capture complete surface shape and can be augmented with semantic labels, but their high dimensionality makes them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Michael Bloesch , Jan Czarnowski , Ronald Clark , Stefan Leutenegger , Andrew J. Davison

Monocular Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) aims to estimate a robot's pose while simultaneously reconstructing an unknown 3D scene using a single camera. While existing monocular SLAM systems generate detailed 3D geometry…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yuchen Zhou , Haihang Wu

Modern 3D laser-range scanners have a high data rate, making online simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) computationally challenging. Recursive state estimation techniques are efficient but commit to a state estimate immediately…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-17 David Droeschel , Sven Behnke

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), i.e., the reconstruction of the environment represented by a (3D) map and the concurrent pose estimation, has made astonishing progress. Meanwhile, large scale applications aiming at the data…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Vincent Ress , Wei Zhang , David Skuddis , Norbert Haala , Uwe Soergel

Thermal cameras offer strong potential for robot perception under challenging illumination and weather conditions. However, thermal Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) remains difficult due to unreliable feature extraction,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Zeyu Jiang , Kuan Xu , Changhao Chen

Traditional approaches for Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM) rely on low-level vision information for state estimation, such as handcrafted local features or the image gradient. While significant progress has been made…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Huaiyang Huang , Haoyang Ye , Yuxiang Sun , Lujia Wang , Ming Liu

We present the first fully distributed multi-robot system for dense metric-semantic Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Our system, dubbed Kimera-Multi, is implemented by a team of robots equipped with visual-inertial sensors, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Yun Chang , Yulun Tian , Jonathan P. How , Luca Carlone

Purpose: Common dense stereo Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) approaches in Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) require high-end parallel computational resources for real-time implementation. Yet, it is not always feasible since…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jingwei Song , Ray Zhang , Qiuchen Zhu , Jianyu Lin , Maani Ghaffari