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We present a dense simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method that uses 3D Gaussians as a scene representation. Our approach enables interactive-time reconstruction and photo-realistic rendering from real-world single-camera RGBD…

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Achieving truly practical dynamic 3D reconstruction requires online operation, global pose and map consistency, detailed appearance modeling, and the flexibility to handle both RGB and RGB-D inputs. However, existing SLAM methods typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Shi Chen , Erik Sandström , Sandro Lombardi , Siyuan Li , Martin R. Oswald

We propose a dense RGBD SLAM system based on 3D Gaussian Splatting that provides metrically accurate pose tracking and visually realistic reconstruction. To this end, we first propose a Gaussian densification strategy based on the rendering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Shuo Sun , Malcolm Mielle , Achim J. Lilienthal , Martin Magnusson

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

This work proposes a RGB-D SLAM system specifically designed for structured environments and aimed at improved tracking and mapping accuracy by relying on geometric features that are extracted from the surrounding. Structured environments…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Yanyan Li , Raza Yunus , Nikolas Brasch , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping using RGB-D cameras has been a fertile research topic in the latest decade, due to the suitability of such sensors for indoor robotics. In this paper we propose a direct RGB-D SLAM algorithm with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Alejo Concha , Javier Civera

We propose Unblur-SLAM, a novel RGB SLAM pipeline for sharp 3D reconstruction from blurred image inputs. In contrast to previous work, our approach is able to handle different types of blur and demonstrates state-of-the-art performance in…

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Deblurring can not only provide visually more pleasant pictures and make photography more convenient, but also can improve the performance of objection detection as well as tracking. However, removing dynamic scene blur from images is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Jiawei Zhang , Jinshan Pan , Daoye Wang , Shangchen Zhou , Xing Wei , Furong Zhao , Jianbo Liu , Jimmy Ren

We propose a visual SLAM method by predicting and updating line flows that represent sequential 2D projections of 3D line segments. While feature-based SLAM methods have achieved excellent results, they still face problems in challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Qiuyuan Wang , Zike Yan , Junqiu Wang , Fei Xue , Wei Ma , Hongbin Zha

Recently, the RGB images and point clouds fusion methods have been proposed to jointly estimate 2D optical flow and 3D scene flow. However, as both conventional RGB cameras and LiDAR sensors adopt a frame-based data acquisition mechanism,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Zhexiong Wan , Yuxin Mao , Jing Zhang , Yuchao Dai

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (vSLAM) is a widely used technique in robotics and computer vision that enables a robot to create a map of an unfamiliar environment using a camera sensor while simultaneously tracking its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yasaman Haghighi , Suryansh Kumar , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Luc Van Gool

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…

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Neural RGBD SLAM techniques have shown promise in dense Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM), yet face challenges such as error accumulation during camera tracking resulting in distorted maps. In response, we introduce Loopy-SLAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Lorenzo Liso , Erik Sandström , Vladimir Yugay , Luc Van Gool , Martin R. Oswald

We propose a 6D RGB-D odometry approach that finds the relative camera pose between consecutive RGB-D frames by keypoint extraction and feature matching both on the RGB and depth image planes. Furthermore, we feed the estimated pose to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Nadia Figueroa , Haiwei Dong , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Neural implicit representations have recently become popular in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), especially in dense visual SLAM. However, previous works in this direction either rely on RGB-D sensors, or require a separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Zihan Zhu , Songyou Peng , Viktor Larsson , Zhaopeng Cui , Martin R. Oswald , Andreas Geiger , Marc Pollefeys

3D Gaussian Splatting has recently shown promising results as an alternative scene representation in SLAM systems to neural implicit representations. However, current methods either lack dense depth maps to supervise the mapping process or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 F. Aykut Sarikamis , A. Aydin Alatan

The emergence of modern RGB-D sensors had a significant impact in many application fields, including robotics, augmented reality (AR) and 3D scanning. They are low-cost, low-power and low-size alternatives to traditional range sensors such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Javier Civera , Seong Hun Lee

Point cloud maps generated via LiDAR sensors using extensive remotely sensed data are commonly used by autonomous vehicles and robots for localization and navigation. However, dynamic objects contained in point cloud maps not only downgrade…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Feiya Li , Chunyun Fu , Dongye Sun , Jian Li , Jianwen Wang

We propose a novel object-augmented RGB-D SLAM system that is capable of constructing a consistent object map and performing relocalisation based on centroids of objects in the map. The approach aims to overcome the view dependence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Yuhang Ming , Xingrui Yang , Andrew Calway

Volumetric reconstruction of dynamic scenes is an important problem in computer vision. It is especially challenging in poor lighting and with fast motion. This is partly due to limitations of RGB cameras: To capture frames under low…

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