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Feature descriptors, such as SIFT and ORB, are well-known for their robustness to illumination changes, which has made them popular for feature-based VSLAM\@. However, in degraded imaging conditions such as low light, low texture, blur and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Hatem Alismail , Brett Browning , Simon Lucey

In this paper we present DOT (Dynamic Object Tracking), a front-end that added to existing SLAM systems can significantly improve their robustness and accuracy in highly dynamic environments. DOT combines instance segmentation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Irene Ballester , Alejandro Fontan , Javier Civera , Klaus H. Strobl , Rudolph Triebel

Monocular SLAM historically suffers from scale ambiguity and tracking failure in dynamic environments. While recent vision foundation models (VFMs) provide remarkable zero-shot depth priors, naively integrating these deterministic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Eunsoo Im , Gyeonggwan Lee , Junghun Suh

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

Moving objects can greatly jeopardize the performance of a visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) system which relies on the static-world assumption. Motion removal have seen successful on solving this problem. Two main…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Ting Sun , Yuxiang Sun , Ming Liu , Dit-Yan Yeung

Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting have significantly improved the efficiency and quality of dense semantic SLAM. However, previous methods are generally constrained by limited-category pre-trained classifiers and implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Dianyi Yang , Yu Gao , Xihan Wang , Yufeng Yue , Yi Yang , Mengyin Fu

The integration of neural rendering and the SLAM system recently showed promising results in joint localization and photorealistic view reconstruction. However, existing methods, fully relying on implicit representations, are so…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Huajian Huang , Longwei Li , Hui Cheng , Sai-Kit Yeung

The tracking module of a visual-inertial SLAM system processes incoming image frames and IMU data to estimate the position of the frame in relation to the map. It is important for the tracking to complete in a timely manner for each frame…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Kimia Khabiri , Parsa Hosseininejad , Shishir Gopinath , Karthik Dantu , Steven Y. Ko

This paper presents a novel approach to visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) using multiple RGB-D cameras. The proposed method, Multicam-SLAM, significantly enhances the robustness and accuracy of SLAM systems by capturing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Shenghao Li , Luchao Pang , Xianglong Hu

The development of data innovation as of late and the expanded limit, has permitted the acquaintance of artificial vision connected with SLAM, offering ascend to what is known as Visual SLAM. The objective of this paper is to build up a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-19 V. I Mebin Jose , D. J Binoj

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

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (vSLAM) systems encounter substantial challenges in dynamic environments where moving objects compromise tracking accuracy and map consistency. This paper introduces PCR-ORB (Point Cloud…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Sheng-Kai Chen , Jie-Yu Chao , Jr-Yu Chang , Po-Lien Wu , Po-Chiang Lin

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

Robust SLAM in large-scale environments requires fault resilience and awareness at multiple stages, from sensing and odometry estimation to loop closure. In this work, we present TBV (Trust But Verify) Radar SLAM, a method for radar SLAM…

We propose a neurobiologically inspired visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system based on direction sparse method to real-time build cognitive maps of large-scale environments from a moving stereo camera. The core SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Taiping Zeng , Xiaoli Li , Bailu Si

Recent work in visual SLAM has shown the effectiveness of using deep network backbones. Despite excellent accuracy, however, such approaches are often expensive to run or do not generalize well zero-shot. Their runtime can also fluctuate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Lahav Lipson , Zachary Teed , Jia Deng

In the gastrointestinal (GI) tract endoscopy field, ingestible wireless capsule endoscopy is considered as a minimally invasive novel diagnostic technology to inspect the entire GI tract and to diagnose various diseases and pathologies.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Mehmet Turan , Yasin Almalioglu , Helder Araujo , Ender Konukoglu , Metin Sitti

We present WildGS-SLAM, a robust and efficient monocular RGB SLAM system designed to handle dynamic environments by leveraging uncertainty-aware geometric mapping. Unlike traditional SLAM systems, which assume static scenes, our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jianhao Zheng , Zihan Zhu , Valentin Bieri , Marc Pollefeys , Songyou Peng , Iro Armeni

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

Inspired by the recent success of application of dense data approach by using ORB-SLAM and RGB-D SLAM, we propose a better pipeline of real-time SLAM in dynamics environment. Different from previous SLAM which can only handle static scenes,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Alex Fu , Lingjie Kong