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In the proposed study, we describe an approach to improving the computational efficiency and robustness of visual SLAM algorithms on mobile robots with multiple cameras and limited computational power by implementing an intermediate layer…

Visual SLAM shows significant progress in recent years due to high attention from vision community but still, challenges remain for low-textured environments. Feature based visual SLAMs do not produce reliable camera and structure estimates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Soumyadip Maity , Arindam Saha , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

Reliable incremental estimation of camera poses and 3D reconstruction is key to enable various applications including robotics, interactive visualization, and augmented reality. However, this task is particularly challenging in dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xingguang Zhong , Liren Jin , Marija Popović , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Neural implicit representations have recently become popular in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), especially in dense visual SLAM. However, previous works in this direction either rely on RGB-D sensors, or require a separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Zihan Zhu , Songyou Peng , Viktor Larsson , Zhaopeng Cui , Martin R. Oswald , Andreas Geiger , Marc Pollefeys

The evolving field of mobile robotics has indeed increased the demand for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems. To augment the localization accuracy and mapping efficacy of SLAM, we refined the core module of the SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ang He , Xi-mei Wu , Xiao-bin Guo , Li-bin Liu

Visual simultaneous localization and mapping (V-SLAM) is a fundamental capability for autonomous perception and navigation. However, endoscopic scenes violate the rigidity assumption due to persistent soft-tissue deformations, creating a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Jiwei Shan , Zeyu Cai , Yirui Li , Yongbo Chen , Lijun Han , Yun-hui Liu , Hesheng Wang , Shing Shin Cheng

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled RGB-only SLAM systems to achieve high-fidelity scene representation. However, the heavy reliance of existing systems on photometric rendering loss for camera tracking undermines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhen Tan , Xieyuanli Chen , Lei Feng , Yangbing Ge , Shuaifeng Zhi , Jiaxiong Liu , Dewen Hu

This project has conducted research on robot path planning based on Visual SLAM. The main work of this project is as follows: (1) Construction of Visual SLAM system. Research has been conducted on the basic architecture of Visual SLAM. A…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Wang Ruiqi

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…

The performance of visual SLAM in complex, real-world scenarios is often compromised by unreliable feature extraction and matching when using handcrafted features. Although deep learning-based local features excel at capturing high-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Hao Qu , Lilian Zhang , Jun Mao , Junbo Tie , Xiaofeng He , Xiaoping Hu , Yifei Shi , Changhao Chen

In this paper, we introduce OpenVSLAM, a visual SLAM framework with high usability and extensibility. Visual SLAM systems are essential for AR devices, autonomous control of robots and drones, etc. However, conventional open-source visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Shinya Sumikura , Mikiya Shibuya , Ken Sakurada

In this paper, we present an active visual SLAM approach for omnidirectional robots. The goal is to generate control commands that allow such a robot to simultaneously localize itself and map an unknown environment while maximizing the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Elia Bonetto , Pascal Goldschmid , Michael Pabst , Michael J. Black , Aamir Ahmad

Most classical SLAM systems rely on the static scene assumption, which limits their applicability in real world scenarios. Recent SLAM frameworks have been proposed to simultaneously track the camera and moving objects. However they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Mathieu Gonzalez , Eric Marchand , Amine Kacete , Jérôme Royan

Monocular SLAM has received a lot of attention due to its simple RGB inputs and the lifting of complex sensor constraints. However, existing monocular SLAM systems are designed for bounded scenes, restricting the applicability of SLAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Heng Zhou , Zhetao Guo , Shuhong Liu , Lechen Zhang , Qihao Wang , Yuxiang Ren , Mingrui Li

Neural RGBD SLAM techniques have shown promise in dense Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM), yet face challenges such as error accumulation during camera tracking resulting in distorted maps. In response, we introduce Loopy-SLAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Lorenzo Liso , Erik Sandström , Vladimir Yugay , Luc Van Gool , Martin R. Oswald

Vision-based Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (VSLAM) is a mature problem in Robotics. Most VSLAM systems are feature based methods, which are robust and present high accuracy, but yield sparse maps with limited application for further…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Juan Jose Tarrio , Claus Smitt , Sol Pedre

In this paper we present a complete SLAM system for RGB-D cameras, namely RGB-iD SLAM. The presented approach is a dense direct SLAM method with the main characteristic of working with the depth maps in inverse depth parametrisation for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Daniel Gutierrez-Gomez , Jose J. Guerrero

A robust and efficient Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system is essential for robot autonomy. For visual SLAM algorithms, though the theoretical framework has been well established for most aspects, feature extraction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Dongjiang Li , Xuesong Shi , Qiwei Long , Shenghui Liu , Wei Yang , Fangshi Wang , Qi Wei , Fei Qiao

This paper presents an integrated approach to Visual SLAM, merging online sequential photometric calibration within a Hybrid direct-indirect visual SLAM (H-SLAM). Photometric calibration helps normalize pixel intensity values under…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Nicolas Abboud , Malak Sayour , Imad H. Elhajj , John Zelek , Daniel Asmar

In this letter, we present a neural field-based real-time monocular mapping framework for accurate and dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Recent neural mapping frameworks show promising results, but rely on RGB-D or pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Wei Zhang , Tiecheng Sun , Sen Wang , Qing Cheng , Norbert Haala