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Bayesian methods for solving inverse problems are a powerful alternative to classical methods since the Bayesian approach offers the ability to quantify the uncertainty in the solution. In recent years, data-driven techniques for solving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Ziruo Cai , Junqi Tang , Subhadip Mukherjee , Jinglai Li , Carola Bibiane Schönlieb , Xiaoqun Zhang

When an agent, person, vehicle or robot is moving through an unknown environment without GNSS signals, online mapping of nonlinear terrains can be used to improve position estimates when the agent returns to a previously mapped area.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Frida Marie Viset , Rudy Helmons , Manon Kok

We propose SemGauss-SLAM, a dense semantic SLAM system utilizing 3D Gaussian representation, that enables accurate 3D semantic mapping, robust camera tracking, and high-quality rendering simultaneously. In this system, we incorporate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Siting Zhu , Renjie Qin , Guangming Wang , Jiuming Liu , Hesheng Wang

Emerging 3D scene representations, such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), have demonstrated their effectiveness in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) for photo-realistic rendering, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Peng Wang , Lingzhe Zhao , Yin Zhang , Shiyu Zhao , Peidong Liu

In variational inference, the benefits of Bayesian models rely on accurately capturing the true posterior distribution. We propose using neural samplers that specify implicit distributions, which are well-suited for approximating complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Anshuk Uppal , Kristoffer Stensbo-Smidt , Wouter Boomsma , Jes Frellsen

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has shown promising results for 3D scene modeling using mixtures of Gaussians, yet its existing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) variants typically rely on direct, deterministic pose optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yuhan Zhu , Yanyu Zhang , Jie Xu , Wei Ren

Real-world measurement noise in applications like robotics is often correlated in time, but we typically assume i.i.d. Gaussian noise for filtering. We propose general Gaussian Processes as a non-parametric model for correlated measurement…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-25 Vince Kurtz , Hai Lin

Handling the dynamic environments is a significant research challenge in Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Recent research combines 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) with SLAM to achieve both robust camera pose estimation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yunsong Wang , Gim Hee Lee

Recent trends in SLAM and visual navigation have embraced 3D Gaussians as the preferred scene representation, highlighting the importance of estimating camera poses from a single image using a pre-built Gaussian model. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Hao Wang , Linqing Zhao , Xiuwei Xu , Jiwen Lu , Haibin Yan

Normalizing flows provide a general mechanism for defining expressive probability distributions, only requiring the specification of a (usually simple) base distribution and a series of bijective transformations. There has been much recent…

We present a dense simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method that uses 3D Gaussians as a scene representation. Our approach enables interactive-time reconstruction and photo-realistic rendering from real-world single-camera RGBD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Vladimir Yugay , Yue Li , Theo Gevers , Martin R. Oswald

Inverse generation problems, such as denoising without ground truth observations, is a critical challenge in many scientific inquiries and real-world applications. While recent advances in generative models like diffusion models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yuchen Zhang , Jian Zhou

In this work, we demonstrate how to reliably estimate epistemic uncertainty while maintaining the flexibility needed to capture complicated aleatoric distributions. To this end, we propose an ensemble of Normalizing Flows (NF), which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Lucas Berry , David Meger

Normalizing Flows (NF) are powerful likelihood-based generative models that are able to trade off between expressivity and tractability to model complex densities. A now well established research avenue leverages optimal transport (OT) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Guillaume Morel , Lucas Drumetz , Simon Benaïchouche , Nicolas Courty , François Rousseau

This paper presents a groundbreaking approach to causal inference by integrating continuous normalizing flows (CNFs) with parametric submodels, enhancing their geometric sensitivity and improving upon traditional Targeted Maximum Likelihood…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Kaiwen Hou

Real-time video motion transfer applications such as immersive gaming and vision-based anomaly detection require accurate yet diverse future predictions to support realistic synthesis and robust downstream decision making under uncertainty.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Tasmiah Haque , Srinjoy Das

We propose SNI-SLAM, a semantic SLAM system utilizing neural implicit representation, that simultaneously performs accurate semantic mapping, high-quality surface reconstruction, and robust camera tracking. In this system, we introduce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Siting Zhu , Guangming Wang , Hermann Blum , Jiuming Liu , Liang Song , Marc Pollefeys , Hesheng Wang

Navigating outdoor environments with visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems poses significant challenges due to dynamic scenes, lighting variations, and seasonal changes, requiring robust solutions. While traditional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Fabian Schmidt , Markus Enzweiler , Abhinav Valada

Continuously-indexed flows (CIFs) have recently achieved improvements over baseline normalizing flows on a variety of density estimation tasks. CIFs do not possess a closed-form marginal density, and so, unlike standard flows, cannot be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-16 Anthony Caterini , Rob Cornish , Dino Sejdinovic , Arnaud Doucet

We propose a novel method ($floZ$), based on normalizing flows, to estimate the Bayesian evidence (and its numerical uncertainty) from a pre-existing set of samples drawn from the unnormalized posterior distribution. We validate it on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-06 Rahul Srinivasan , Marco Crisostomi , Roberto Trotta , Enrico Barausse , Matteo Breschi