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We present a Deep Learning based system for the twin tasks of localization and obstacle avoidance essential to any mobile robot. Our system learns from conventional geometric SLAM, and outputs, using a single camera, the topological pose of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Punarjay Chakravarty , Praveen Narayanan , Tom Roussel

Dense SLAM based on monocular cameras does indeed have immense application value in the field of AR/VR, especially when it is performed on a mobile device. In this paper, we propose a novel method that integrates a light-weight depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Weijian Xie , Guanyi Chu , Quanhao Qian , Yihao Yu , Hai Li , Danpeng Chen , Shangjin Zhai , Nan Wang , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang

We present HI-SLAM2, a geometry-aware Gaussian SLAM system that achieves fast and accurate monocular scene reconstruction using only RGB input. Existing Neural SLAM or 3DGS-based SLAM methods often trade off between rendering quality and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Wei Zhang , Qing Cheng , David Skuddis , Niclas Zeller , Daniel Cremers , Norbert Haala

We present DropD-SLAM, a real-time monocular SLAM system that achieves RGB-D-level accuracy without relying on depth sensors. The system replaces active depth input with three pretrained vision modules: a monocular metric depth estimator, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Mert Kiray , Alican Karaomer , Benjamin Busam

Achieving high-fidelity 3D reconstruction from monocular video remains challenging due to the inherent limitations of traditional methods like Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and monocular SLAM in accurately capturing scene details. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yue Hu , Rong Liu , Meida Chen , Peter Beerel , Andrew Feng

We propose a monocular depth estimator SC-Depth, which requires only unlabelled videos for training and enables the scale-consistent prediction at inference time. Our contributions include: (i) we propose a geometry consistency loss, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Jia-Wang Bian , Huangying Zhan , Naiyan Wang , Zhichao Li , Le Zhang , Chunhua Shen , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ian Reid

In recent years, there have been significant advancements in 3D reconstruction and dense RGB-D SLAM systems. One notable development is the application of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) in these systems, which utilizes implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Tianchen Deng , Yanbo Wang , Hongle Xie , Hesheng Wang , Jingchuan Wang , Danwei Wang , Weidong Chen

Recent advancements in RGB-only dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) have predominantly utilized grid-based neural implicit encodings and/or struggle to efficiently realize global map and pose consistency. To this end, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Ganlin Zhang , Erik Sandström , Youmin Zhang , Manthan Patel , Luc Van Gool , Martin R. Oswald

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

Recent achievements in depth prediction from a single RGB image have powered the new research area of combining convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with classical simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms. The depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Yihao Zhang , John J. Leonard

The RGB-D camera maintains a limited range for working and is hard to accurately measure the depth information in a far distance. Besides, the RGB-D camera will easily be influenced by strong lighting and other external factors, which will…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Mingyang Geng , Suning Shang , Bo Ding , Huaimin Wang , Pengfei Zhang , Lei Zhang

3D Gaussian Splatting has emerged as a powerful representation of geometry and appearance for RGB-only dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), as it provides a compact dense map representation while enabling efficient and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Erik Sandström , Keisuke Tateno , Michael Oechsle , Michael Niemeyer , Luc Van Gool , Martin R. Oswald , Federico Tombari

Existing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms are not robust in challenging low-texture environments because there are only few salient features. The resulting sparse or semi-dense map also conveys little information for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Shichao Yang , Yu Song , Michael Kaess , Sebastian Scherer

We introduce DROID-SLAM, a new deep learning based SLAM system. DROID-SLAM consists of recurrent iterative updates of camera pose and pixelwise depth through a Dense Bundle Adjustment layer. DROID-SLAM is accurate, achieving large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Zachary Teed , Jia Deng

In this paper, we propose a dense monocular SLAM system, named DeepRelativeFusion, that is capable to recover a globally consistent 3D structure. To this end, we use a visual SLAM algorithm to reliably recover the camera poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Shing Yan Loo , Syamsiah Mashohor , Sai Hong Tang , Hong Zhang

We consider the problem of dense depth prediction from a sparse set of depth measurements and a single RGB image. Since depth estimation from monocular images alone is inherently ambiguous and unreliable, to attain a higher level of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Fangchang Ma , Sertac Karaman

This paper demonstrates a system capable of combining a sparse, indirect, monocular visual SLAM, with both offline and real-time Multi-View Stereo (MVS) reconstruction algorithms. This combination overcomes many obstacles encountered by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Fangwen Shu , Paul Lesur , Yaxu Xie , Alain Pagani , Didier Stricker

This paper presents a visual SLAM system that uses both points and lines for robust camera localization, and simultaneously performs a piece-wise planar reconstruction (PPR) of the environment to provide a structural map in real-time. One…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Fangwen Shu , Jiaxuan Wang , Alain Pagani , Didier Stricker

In recent years, the paradigm of neural implicit representations has gained substantial attention in the field of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). However, a notable gap exists in the existing approaches when it comes to scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Hongjia Zhai , Gan Huang , Qirui Hu , Guanglin Li , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang

Visual simultaneous localization and mapping (V-SLAM) is a fundamental capability for autonomous perception and navigation. However, endoscopic scenes violate the rigidity assumption due to persistent soft-tissue deformations, creating a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Jiwei Shan , Zeyu Cai , Yirui Li , Yongbo Chen , Lijun Han , Yun-hui Liu , Hesheng Wang , Shing Shin Cheng