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As the foundation of driverless vehicle and intelligent robots, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping(SLAM) has attracted much attention these days. However, non-geometric modules of traditional SLAM algorithms are limited by data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Rong Kang , Jieqi Shi , Xueming Li , Yang Liu , Xiao Liu

Graph-SLAM is a well-established algorithm for constructing a topological map of the environment while simultaneously attempting the localisation of the robot. It relies on scan matching algorithms to align noisy observations along robot's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Giorgio Iavicoli , Claudio Zito

We present an uncertainty learning framework for dense neural simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Estimating pixel-wise uncertainties for the depth input of dense SLAM methods allows re-weighing the tracking and mapping losses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Erik Sandström , Kevin Ta , Luc Van Gool , Martin R. Oswald

Existing underwater SLAM systems are difficult to work effectively in texture-sparse and geometrically degraded underwater environments, resulting in intermittent tracking and sparse mapping. Therefore, we present Water-DSLAM, a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yaming Ou , Junfeng Fan , Chao Zhou , Pengju Zhang , Zongyuan Shen , Yichen Fu , Xiaoyan Liu , Zengguang Hou

Monocular SLAM in deformable scenes will open the way to multiple medical applications like computer-assisted navigation in endoscopy, automatic drug delivery or autonomous robotic surgery. In this paper we propose a novel method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Juan J. Gomez Rodriguez , J. M. M Montiel , Juan D. Tardos

For VSLAM (Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), localization is a challenging task, especially for some challenging situations: textureless frames, motion blur, etc.. To build a robust exploration and localization system in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Weinan Chen , Lei Zhu , Yisheng Guan , C. Ronald Kube , Hong Zhang

This paper proposes a robust, high-precision positioning methodology to address localization failures arising from complex background interference in large-scale flight navigation and the computational inefficiency inherent in conventional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Jing Tao , Banglei Guan , Yang Shang , Shunkun Liang , Qifeng Yu

Conventional SLAM algorithms takes a strong assumption of scene motionlessness, which limits the application in real environments. This paper tries to tackle the challenging visual SLAM issue of moving objects in dynamic environments. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Handuo Zhang , Karunasekera Hasith , Han Wang

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

Compared to regular cameras, Dynamic Vision Sensors or Event Cameras can output compact visual data based on a change in the intensity in each pixel location asynchronously. In this paper, we study the application of current image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Masoud Dayani Najafabadi , Mohammad Reza Ahmadzadeh

Accurate and robust localization and mapping are essential components for most autonomous robots. In this paper, we propose a SLAM system for building globally consistent maps, called PIN-SLAM, that is based on an elastic and compact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Yue Pan , Xingguang Zhong , Louis Wiesmann , Thorbjörn Posewsky , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Visual SLAM algorithms achieve significant improvements through the exploration of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) representations, particularly in generating high-fidelity dense maps. However, they depend on a static environment assumption…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yi Liu , Haoxuan Xu , Hongbo Duan , Keyu Fan , Zhengyang Zhang , Peiyu Zhuang , Pengting Luo , Houde Liu

In this paper we present NR-SLAM, a novel non-rigid monocular SLAM system founded on the combination of a Dynamic Deformation Graph with a Visco-Elastic deformation model. The former enables our system to represent the dynamics of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Juan J. Gomez Rodriguez , J. M. M Montiel , Juan D. Tardos

In this letter, we propose MAROAM, a millimeter wave radar-based SLAM framework, which employs a two-step feature selection process to build the global consistent map. Specifically, we first extract feature points from raw data based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Dequan Wang , Yifan Duan , Xiaoran Fan , Chengzhen Meng , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

Graph-based representations such as Scene Graphs enable localization in structured indoor environments by matching a locally observed graph, constructed from sensor data, to a prior map. This process is particularly challenging in…

SLAM technology plays a crucial role in indoor mapping and localization. A common challenge in indoor environments is the "double-sided mapping issue", where closely positioned walls, doors, and other surfaces are mistakenly identified as a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Chengwei Zhao , Yixuan Li , Yina Jian , Jie Xu , Linji Wang , Yongxin Ma , Xinglai Jin

Traditional approaches for Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM) rely on low-level vision information for state estimation, such as handcrafted local features or the image gradient. While significant progress has been made…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Huaiyang Huang , Haoyang Ye , Yuxiang Sun , Lujia Wang , Ming Liu

While the keypoint-based maps created by sparse monocular simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) systems are useful for camera tracking, dense 3D reconstructions may be desired for many robotic tasks. Solutions involving depth cameras…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Tristan Laidlow , Jan Czarnowski , Stefan Leutenegger

Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is a fundamental problem in mobile robotics. While sparse point-based SLAM methods provide accurate camera localization, the generated maps lack semantic information. On the other hand, state of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh , Kejie Li , Yasir Latif , Ian Reid

This paper presents a novel visual feature based scene mapping method for underwater vehicle manipulator systems (UVMSs), with specific emphasis on robust mapping in natural seafloor environments. Our method uses GPU accelerated SIFT…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Gideon Billings , Richard Camilli , Matthew Johnson-Roberson