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Accurate pose estimation is fundamental for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications, where Visual-Inertial SLAM (VI-SLAM) provides a cost-effective solution for localization and mapping. However, existing VI-SLAM methods mainly rely on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yiyang Wu , Xiaohu Zhang , Yanjin Du , Tongsu Zhang , Chujun Li , Siyang Chen , Guoyi Zhang , Xiangpeng Xu

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

Monocular visual odometry is a key technology in various autonomous systems. Traditional feature-based methods suffer from failures due to poor lighting, insufficient texture, and large motions. In contrast, recent learning-based dense SLAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Takayuki Kanai , Igor Vasiljevic , Vitor Guizilini , Kazuhiro Shintani

Current techniques in Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM) estimate camera displacement by comparing image features of consecutive scenes. These algorithms depend on scene continuity, hence requires frequent camera inputs.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Mingyang Li , Yue Ma , Qinru Qiu

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is one of the key robotics tasks as it tackles simultaneous mapping of the unknown environment defined by multiple landmark positions and localization of the unknown pose (i.e., attitude and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-12 Hashim A. Hashim

This paper presents a robust monocular visual SLAM system that simultaneously utilizes point, line, and vanishing point features for accurate camera pose estimation and mapping. To address the critical challenge of achieving reliable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Bingzheng Jiang , Jiayuan Wang , Han Ding , Lijun Zhu

Recent trends have accelerated the development of spatial applications on mobile devices and robots. These include navigation, augmented reality, human-robot interaction, and others. A key enabling technology for such applications is the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Zakieh S. Hashemifar , Charuvahan Adhivarahan , Anand Balakrishnan , Karthik Dantu

Semantic Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a critical area of research within robotics and computer vision, focusing on the simultaneous localization of robotic systems and associating semantic information to construct the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Thanh Nguyen Canh , Haolan Zhang , Xiem HoangVan , Nak Young Chong

This paper introduces a novel and distributed method for detecting inter-map loop closure outliers in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). The proposed algorithm does not rely on a good initialization and can handle more than two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Arman Karimian , Ziqi Yang , Roberto Tron

The joint optimization of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and camera trajectories has been widely applied in SLAM tasks due to its superior dense mapping quality and consistency. NeRF-based SLAM learns camera poses using constraints by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Yicheng He , Guangcheng Chen , Hong Zhang

To enhance the performance and effect of AR/VR applications and visual assistance and inspection systems, visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) is a fundamental task in computer vision and robotics. However, traditional vSLAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yichen Chen , Yiqi Pan , Ruyu Liu , Haoyu Zhang , Guodao Zhang , Bo Sun , Jianhua Zhang

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a critical capability in autonomous navigation, but in order to scale SLAM to the setting of "lifelong" SLAM, particularly under memory or computation constraints, a robot must be able to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Kevin J. Doherty , David M. Rosen , John J. Leonard

NeRF-based SLAM has recently achieved promising results in tracking and reconstruction. However, existing methods face challenges in providing sufficient scene representation, capturing structural information, and maintaining global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Ziren Gong , Fabio Tosi , Youmin Zhang , Stefano Mattoccia , Matteo Poggi

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a critical capability for autonomous systems. Traditional SLAM approaches, which often rely on visual or LiDAR sensors, face significant challenges in adverse conditions such as low light or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Dong Wang , Hannes Haag , Daniel Casado Herraez , Stefan May , Cyrill Stachniss , Andreas Nüchter

We address the challenging problem of dense dynamic scene reconstruction and camera pose estimation from multiple freely moving cameras -- a setting that arises naturally when multiple observers capture a shared event. Prior approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shuo Sun , Unal Artan , Malcolm Mielle , Achim J. Lilienthaland , Martin Magnusson

This paper proposes a novel active Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) method with continuous trajectory optimization over a stochastic robot dynamics model. The problem is formalized as a stochastic optimal control over the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Shumon Koga , Arash Asgharivaskasi , Nikolay Atanasov

The assumption of scene rigidity is typical in SLAM algorithms. Such a strong assumption limits the use of most visual SLAM systems in populated real-world environments, which are the target of several relevant applications like service…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Berta Bescos , José M. Fácil , Javier Civera , José Neira

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms are frequently deployed to support a wide range of robotics applications, such as autonomous navigation in unknown environments, and scene mapping in virtual reality. Many of these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Chih-Yuan Chiu

3D reconstruction has been developing all these two decades, from moderate to medium size and to large scale. It's well known that bundle adjustment plays an important role in 3D reconstruction, mainly in Structure from Motion(SfM) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Yu Chen , Yisong Chen , Guoping Wang

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) allows mobile robots to navigate without external positioning systems or pre-existing maps. Radar is emerging as a valuable sensing tool, especially in vision-obstructed environments, as it is…