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Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) plays a vital role in mapping unknown spaces and aiding autonomous navigation. Virtually all state-of-the-art solutions today for 2D SLAM are designed for dense and accurate sensors such as laser…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Hanzhi Zhou , Zichao Hu , Sihang Liu , Samira Khan

Simultaneous localization and mapping is essential for position tracking and scene understanding. 3D Gaussian-based map representations enable photorealistic reconstruction and real-time rendering of scenes using multiple posed cameras. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Lisong C. Sun , Neel P. Bhatt , Jonathan C. Liu , Zhiwen Fan , Zhangyang Wang , Todd E. Humphreys , Ufuk Topcu

We propose NEDS-SLAM, a dense semantic SLAM system based on 3D Gaussian representation, that enables robust 3D semantic mapping, accurate camera tracking, and high-quality rendering in real-time. In the system, we propose a Spatially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yiming Ji , Yang Liu , Guanghu Xie , Boyu Ma , Zongwu Xie

We present SGS-SLAM, the first semantic visual SLAM system based on Gaussian Splatting. It incorporates appearance, geometry, and semantic features through multi-channel optimization, addressing the oversmoothing limitations of neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Mingrui Li , Shuhong Liu , Heng Zhou , Guohao Zhu , Na Cheng , Tianchen Deng , Hongyu Wang

In recent years, there have been significant advancements in 3D reconstruction and dense RGB-D SLAM systems. One notable development is the application of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) in these systems, which utilizes implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Tianchen Deng , Yanbo Wang , Hongle Xie , Hesheng Wang , Jingchuan Wang , Danwei Wang , Weidong Chen

For high-level geo-spatial applications and intelligent robotics, accurate global pose information is of crucial importance. Map-aided localization is a universal approach to overcome the limitations of global navigation satellite system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yuxuan Zhou , Xingxing Li , Shengyu Li , Chunxi Xia , Xuanbin Wang , Shaoquan Feng

Environment perception is a crucial ability for robot's interaction into an environment. One of the first steps in this direction is the combined problem of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). A new method, called G-SLAM, is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Nikos Zikos , Vassilios Petridis

The advancement of dense visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has been greatly facilitated by the emergence of neural implicit representations. Neural implicit encoding SLAM, a typical example of which is NICE-SLAM, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Shi Chen , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

The burgeoning demand for collaborative robotic systems to execute complex tasks collectively has intensified the research community's focus on advancing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in a cooperative context. Despite this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Dapeng Feng , Yuhua Qi , Shipeng Zhong , Zhiqiang Chen , Qiming Chen , Hongbo Chen , Jin Wu , Jun Ma

Neural implicit representations have recently shown encouraging results in various domains, including promising progress in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Nevertheless, existing methods produce over-smoothed scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Zihan Zhu , Songyou Peng , Viktor Larsson , Weiwei Xu , Hujun Bao , Zhaopeng Cui , Martin R. Oswald , Marc Pollefeys

Camera motion estimation is a key technique for 3D scene reconstruction and Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). To make it be feasibly achieved, previous works usually assume slow camera motions, which limits its usage in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Zunjie Zhu , Feng Xu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has gained significant attention for its application in dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), enabling real-time rendering and high-fidelity mapping. However, existing 3DGS-based SLAM methods often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Ziheng Xu , Qingfeng Li , Chen Chen , Xuefeng Liu , Jianwei Niu

In this study, we present the Graph Sub-Graph Network (GSN), a novel hybrid image classification model merging the strengths of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for feature extraction and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Aryan Singh , Pepijn Van de Ven , Ciarán Eising , Patrick Denny

Visual relocalization is a fundamental task in the field of 3D computer vision, estimating a camera's pose when it revisits a previously known scene. While point-based hierarchical relocalization methods have shown strong scalability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Huaqi Tao , Bingxi Liu , Guangcheng Chen , Fulin Tang , Li He , Hong Zhang

Integrating Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) remains a central challenge in text-rich heterophilic graph learning. We propose a novel integration framework that enables effective fusion between powerful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Aarush Sinha

Whilst spectral Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are theoretically well-founded in the spectral domain, their practical reliance on polynomial approximation implies a profound linkage to the spatial domain. As previous studies rarely examine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jingwei Guo , Kaizhu Huang , Xinping Yi , Zixian Su , Rui Zhang

Training effective embodied AI agents often involves manual reward engineering, expert imitation, specialized components such as maps, or leveraging additional sensors for depth and localization. Another approach is to use neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Kunal Pratap Singh , Jordi Salvador , Luca Weihs , Aniruddha Kembhavi

Network alignment is the task of establishing one-to-one correspondences between the nodes of different graphs. Although finding a plethora of applications in high-impact domains, this task is known to be NP-hard in its general form.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Jiashu He , Charilaos I. Kanatsoulis , Alejandro Ribeiro

Event camera, as an asynchronous vision sensor capturing scene dynamics, presents new opportunities for highly efficient 3D human pose tracking. Existing approaches typically adopt modern-day Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), such as CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Shihao Zou , Yuxuan Mu , Wei Ji , Zi-An Wang , Xinxin Zuo , Sen Wang , Weixin Si , Li Cheng

Graph matching is a commonly used technique in computer vision and pattern recognition. Recent data-driven approaches have improved the graph matching accuracy remarkably, whereas some traditional algorithm-based methods are more robust to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Haoru Tan , Chuang Wang , Sitong Wu , Xu-Yao Zhang , Fei Yin , Cheng-Lin Liu