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Visual slam technology is one of the key technologies for robot to explore unknown environment independently. Accurate estimation of camera pose based on visual sensor is the basis of autonomous navigation and positioning. However, most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Deng Su , Dehong Chong

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in slowly varying scenes is important for long-term robot task completion. Failing to detect scene changes may lead to inaccurate maps and, ultimately, lost robots. Classical SLAM algorithms…

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

Robots operating in dynamic environments face significant challenges due to the presence of moving agents and displaced objects. Traditional SLAM systems typically assume a static world or treat dynamic as outliers, discarding their…

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

Commonly, SLAM algorithms are focused on a static environment, however, there are several scenes where dynamic objects are present. This work presents the STDyn-SLAM an image feature-based SLAM system working on dynamic environments using a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Daniela Esparza , Gerardo Flores

Considering the scene's dynamics is the most effective solution to obtain an accurate perception of unknown environments for real vSLAM applications. Most existing methods attempt to address the non-rigid scene assumption by combining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Ayman Beghdadi , Malik Mallem , Lotfi Beji

Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) is one of the fundamental problems in autonomous mobile robots where a robot needs to reconstruct a previously unseen environment while simultaneously localising itself with respect to the map.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Tin Lai

The assumption of scene rigidity is common in visual SLAM algorithms. However, it limits their applicability in populated real-world environments. Furthermore, most scenarios including autonomous driving, multi-robot collaboration and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Berta Bescos , Carlos Campos , Juan D. Tardós , José Neira

Recent advances in neural radiation fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian-based SLAM have achieved impressive localization accuracy and high-quality dense mapping in static scenes. However, these methods remain challenged in dynamic environments,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Wenhua Wu , Chenpeng Su , Siting Zhu , Tianchen Deng , Jianhao Jiao , Guangming Wang , Dimitrios Kanoulas , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

Traditional Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (vSLAM) systems focus solely on static scene structures, overlooking dynamic elements in the environment. Although effective for accurate visual odometry in complex scenarios, these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Jesse Morris , Yiduo Wang , Mikolaj Kliniewski , Viorela Ila

Visual localization and mapping is a crucial capability to address many challenges in mobile robotics. It constitutes a robust, accurate and cost-effective approach for local and global pose estimation within prior maps. Yet, in highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Guoxiang Zhou , Berta Bescos , Marcin Dymczyk , Mark Pfeiffer , José Neira , Roland Siegwart

This work presents a novel RGB-D-inertial dynamic SLAM method that can enable accurate localisation when the majority of the camera view is occluded by multiple dynamic objects over a long period of time. Most dynamic SLAM approaches either…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Ran Long , Christian Rauch , Vladimir Ivan , Tin Lun Lam , Sethu Vijayakumar

Visual SLAM algorithms have been enhanced through the exploration of Gaussian Splatting representations, particularly in generating high-fidelity dense maps. While existing methods perform reliably in static environments, they often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yi Liu , Keyu Fan , Bin Lan , Houde Liu

Consider a set of images of a scene consisting of moving objects captured using a hand-held camera. In this work, we propose an algorithm which takes this set of multi-view images as input, detects the dynamic objects present in the scene,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Gagan Kanojia , Shanmuganathan Raman

This work presents a novel RGB-D SLAM approach to simultaneously segment, track and reconstruct the static background and large dynamic rigid objects that can occlude major portions of the camera view. Previous approaches treat dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Ran Long , Christian Rauch , Tianwei Zhang , Vladimir Ivan , Sethu Vijayakumar

The existence of variable factors within the environment can cause a decline in camera localization accuracy, as it violates the fundamental assumption of a static environment in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Ghanta Sai Krishna , Kundrapu Supriya , Sabur Baidya

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

In this paper, we present a tightly-coupled visual-inertial object-level multi-instance dynamic SLAM system. Even in extremely dynamic scenes, it can robustly optimise for the camera pose, velocity, IMU biases and build a dense 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Yifei Ren , Binbin Xu , Christopher L. Choi , Stefan Leutenegger

In dynamic scenes, both localization and mapping in visual SLAM face significant challenges. In recent years, numerous outstanding research works have proposed effective solutions for the localization problem. However, there has been a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Xinggang Hu