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This paper presents the first active object mapping framework for complex robotic manipulation and autonomous perception tasks. The framework is built on an object SLAM system integrated with a simultaneous multi-object pose estimation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Yanmin Wu , Yunzhou Zhang , Delong Zhu , Xin Chen , Sonya Coleman , Wenkai Sun , Xinggang Hu , Zhiqiang Deng

In recent years, object-oriented simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has attracted increasing attention due to its ability to provide high-level semantic information while maintaining computational efficiency. Some researchers have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yutong Wang , Chaoyang Jiang , Xieyuanli Chen

Complementing images with inertial measurements has become one of the most popular approaches to achieve highly accurate and robust real-time camera pose tracking. In this paper, we present a keyframe-based approach to visual-inertial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Anton Kasyanov , Francis Engelmann , Jörg Stückler , Bastian Leibe

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (vSLAM) has achieved great progress in the computer vision and robotics communities, and has been successfully used in many fields such as autonomous robot navigation and AR/VR. However, vSLAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Kaiqi Chen , Junhao Xiao , Jialing Liu , Qiyi Tong , Heng Zhang , Ruyu Liu , Jianhua Zhang , Arash Ajoudani , Shengyong Chen

Combining Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) estimation and dynamic scene modelling can highly benefit robot autonomy in dynamic environments. Robot path planning and obstacle avoidance tasks rely on accurate estimations of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Jun Zhang , Mina Henein , Robert Mahony , Viorela Ila

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

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has wide robotic applications such as autonomous driving and unmanned aerial vehicles. Both computational efficiency and localization accuracy are of great importance towards a good SLAM system.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Han Wang , Chen Wang , Chun-Lin Chen , Lihua Xie

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

Reliable and accurate localization and mapping are key components of most autonomous systems. Besides geometric information about the mapped environment, the semantics plays an important role to enable intelligent navigation behaviors. In…

Semantic SLAM is an important field in autonomous driving and intelligent agents, which can enable robots to achieve high-level navigation tasks, obtain simple cognition or reasoning ability and achieve language-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Zirui Zhao , Yijun Mao , Yan Ding , Pengju Ren , Nanning Zheng

We present a real-time tracking SLAM system that unifies efficient camera tracking with photorealistic feature-enriched mapping using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Our main contribution is integrating dense feature rasterization into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Christopher Thirgood , Oscar Mendez , Erin Ling , Jon Storey , Simon Hadfield

Semantic mapping is the task of providing a robot with a map of its environment beyond the open, navigable space of traditional Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms by attaching semantics to locations. The system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-26 David Balaban , Justin Hart

Object-level Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), which incorporates semantic information for high-level scene understanding, faces challenges of under-constrained optimization due to sparse observations. Prior work has introduced…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yang Jiao , Yiding Qiu , Henrik I. Christensen

Existing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms are not robust in challenging low-texture environments because there are only few salient features. The resulting sparse or semi-dense map also conveys little information for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Shichao Yang , Yu Song , Michael Kaess , Sebastian Scherer

Traditional SLAM algorithms are typically based on artificial features, which lack high-level information. By introducing semantic information, SLAM can own higher stability and robustness rather than purely hand-crafted features. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Xianwei Meng , Bonian Li

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

Loop detection plays a key role in visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) by correcting the accumulated pose drift. In indoor scenarios, the richly distributed semantic landmarks are view-point invariant and hold strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Chuhao Liu , Shaojie Shen

Loop closure is necessary for correcting errors accumulated in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in unknown environments. However, conventional loop closure methods based on low-level geometric or image features may cause high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Zhentian Qian , Jie Fu , Jing Xiao

Mapping and self-localization in unknown environments are fundamental capabilities in many robotic applications. These tasks typically involve the identification of objects as unique features or landmarks, which requires the objects both to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Beipeng Mu , Shih-Yuan Liu , Liam Paull , John Leonard , Jonathan How

Routine and repetitive infrastructure inspections present safety, efficiency, and consistency challenges as they are performed manually, often in challenging or hazardous environments. They can also introduce subjectivity and errors into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Jake McLaughlin , Nicholas Charron , Sriram Narasimhan