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We investigate a scenario where a chaser spacecraft or satellite equipped with a monocular camera navigates in close proximity to a target spacecraft. The satellite's primary objective is to construct a representation of the operational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Lorenzo Ticozzi , Panagiotis Tsiotras

In this paper, we propose a tightly-coupled, multi-modal simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) framework, integrating an extensive set of sensors: IMU, cameras, multiple lidars, and Ultra-wideband (UWB) range measurements, hence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Thien-Minh Nguyen , Shenghai Yuan , Muqing Cao , Thien Hoang Nguyen , Lihua Xie

In this paper, we present a system for incrementally reconstructing a dense 3D model of the geometry of an outdoor environment using a single monocular camera attached to a moving vehicle. Dense models provide a rich representation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Louis Gallagher , Varun Ravi Kumar , Senthil Yogamani , John B. McDonald

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) based on 3D Gaussian Splats (3DGS) has recently shown promise towards more accurate, dense 3D scene maps. However, existing 3DGS-based methods fail to address the global consistency of the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Liyuan Zhu , Yue Li , Erik Sandström , Shengyu Huang , Konrad Schindler , Iro Armeni

Robots navigating indoor environments often have access to architectural plans, which can serve as prior knowledge to enhance their localization and mapping capabilities. While some SLAM algorithms leverage these plans for global…

Underwater monocular SLAM is a challenging problem with applications from autonomous underwater vehicles to marine archaeology. However, existing underwater SLAM methods struggle to produce maps with high-fidelity rendering. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Kangxu Wang , Shaofeng Zou , Chenxing Jiang , Yixiang Dai , Siang Chen , Shaojie Shen , Guijin Wang

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has wide robotic applications such as autonomous driving and unmanned aerial vehicles. Both computational efficiency and localization accuracy are of great importance towards a good SLAM system.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Han Wang , Chen Wang , Chun-Lin Chen , Lihua Xie

Map-centric SLAM is emerging as an alternative of conventional graph-based SLAM for its accuracy and efficiency in long-term mapping problems. However, in map-centric SLAM, the process of loop closure differs from that of conventional SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Chanoh Park , Soohwan Kim , Peyman Moghadam , Jiadong Guo , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes

Despite the remarkable progress of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in 2D vision-language tasks, their application to complex 3D scene manipulation remains underexplored. In this paper, we bridge this critical gap by tackling three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Zhengfei Kuang , Rui Lin , Long Zhao , Gordon Wetzstein , Saining Xie , Sanghyun Woo

Due to budgetary constraints, indoor navigation typically employs 2D LiDAR rather than 3D LiDAR. However, the utilization of 2D LiDAR in Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) frequently encounters challenges related to motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Bin Zhang , Zexin Peng , Bi Zeng , Junjie Lu

Accurate and robust 3D scene reconstruction from casual, in-the-wild videos can significantly simplify robot deployment to new environments. However, reliable camera pose estimation and scene reconstruction from such unconstrained videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Shuo Sun , Torsten Sattler , Malcolm Mielle , Achim J. Lilienthal , Martin Magnusson

This work presents an extension of graph-based SLAM methods to exploit the potential of 3D laser scans for loop detection. Every high-dimensional point cloud is replaced by a compact global descriptor, whereby a trained detector decides…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Tim-Lukas Habich , Marvin Stuede , Mathieu Labbé , Svenja Spindeldreier

Monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms estimate drone poses and build a 3D map using a single camera. Current algorithms include sparse methods that lack detailed geometry, while learning-driven approaches produce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jeryes Danial , Yosi Ben Asher , Itzik Klein

The concept of continuous-time trajectory representation has brought increased accuracy and efficiency to multi-modal sensor fusion in modern SLAM. However, regardless of these advantages, its offline property caused by the requirement of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Chanoh Park , Peyman Moghadam , Soohwan Kim , Alberto Elfes , Clinton Fookes , Sridha Sridharan

Simultaneous Localization & Mapping (SLAM) is the process of building a mutual relationship between localization and mapping of the subject in its surrounding environment. With the help of different sensors, various types of SLAM systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Rushmian Annoy Wadud , Wei Sun

We present a simple yet effective method to address loop closure detection in simultaneous localisation and mapping using local 3D deep descriptors (L3Ds). L3Ds are emerging compact representations of patches extracted from point clouds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Youjie Zhou , Yiming Wang , Fabio Poiesi , Qi Qin , Yi Wan

A major limitation of minimally invasive surgery is the difficulty in accurately locating the internal anatomical structures of the target organ due to the lack of tactile feedback and transparency. Augmented reality (AR) offers a promising…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Jingwei Song , Ray Zhang , Wenwei Zhang , Hao Zhou , Maani Ghaffari

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems to build photorealistic maps. However, these maps lack the open-vocabulary semantic understanding required for advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Sibaek Lee , Seongbo Ha , Kyeongsu Kang , Joonyeol Choi , Seungjun Tak , Hyeonwoo Yu

Accurate estimation of the environment structure simultaneously with the robot pose is a key capability of autonomous robotic vehicles. Classical simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms rely on the static world assumption to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Mina Henein , Gerard Kennedy , Viorela Ila , Robert Mahony

We present a real-time monocular dense SLAM system designed bottom-up from MASt3R, a two-view 3D reconstruction and matching prior. Equipped with this strong prior, our system is robust on in-the-wild video sequences despite making no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Riku Murai , Eric Dexheimer , Andrew J. Davison