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Monocular visual SLAM has become an attractive practical approach for robot localization and 3D environment mapping, since cameras are small, lightweight, inexpensive, and produce high-rate, high-resolution data streams. Although numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Hasnain Vohra , Maxim Bazik , Matthew Antone , Joseph Mundy , William Stephenson

Efficient multi-agent 3D mapping is essential for robotic teams operating in unknown environments, but dense representations hinder real-time exchange over constrained communication links. In multi-agent Simultaneous Localization and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Monica M. Q. Li , Pierre-Yves Lajoie , Jialiang Liu , Giovanni Beltrame

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

Visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a key module of robotics and low-speed autonomous vehicles, which is usually limited by the high computation burden for practical applications. To this end, an innovative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Bingxiang Kang , Jie Zou , Guofa Li , Pengwei Zhang , Jie Zeng , Kan Wang , Jie Li

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has achieved impressive performance in static environments. However, SLAM in dynamic environments remains an open question. Many methods directly filter out dynamic objects, resulting in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Haoang Li , Xiangqi Meng , Xingxing Zuo , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang , Daniel Cremers

Existence of symmetric objects, whose observation at different viewpoints can be identical, can deteriorate the performance of simultaneous localization and mapping(SLAM). This work proposes a system for robustly optimizing the pose of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Taekbeom Lee , Youngseok Jang , H. Jin Kim

(Visual) Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) remains a fundamental challenge in enabling autonomous systems to navigate and understand large-scale environments. Traditional SLAM approaches struggle to balance efficiency and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Tian Yi Lim , Boyang Sun , Marc Pollefeys , Hermann Blum

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms perform visual-inertial estimation via filtering or batch optimization methods. Empirical evidence suggests that filtering algorithms are computationally faster, while optimization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-05 Amay Saxena , Chih-Yuan Chiu , Joseph Menke , Ritika Shrivastava , Shankar Sastry

Real time outdoor navigation in highly dynamic environments is an crucial problem. The recent literature on real time static SLAM don't scale up to dynamic outdoor environments. Most of these methods assume moving objects as outliers or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-04 N Dinesh Reddy , Iman Abbasnejad , Sheetal Reddy , Amit Kumar Mondal , Vindhya Devalla

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

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) plays a vital role in real-time localization for autonomous systems. However, traditional SLAM methods, which assume a static environment, often suffer from significant localization drift…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Haolan Zhang , Thanh Nguyen Canh , Chenghao Li , Nak Young Chong

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is one of the most important environment-perception and navigation algorithms for computer vision, robotics, and autonomous cars/drones. Hence, high quality and fast mapping becomes a fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Runfa Blark Li , Mahdi Shaghaghi , Keito Suzuki , Xinshuang Liu , Varun Moparthi , Bang Du , Walker Curtis , Martin Renschler , Ki Myung Brian Lee , Nikolay Atanasov , Truong Nguyen

Autonomous navigation requires an accurate model or map of the environment. While dramatic progress in the prior two decades has enabled large-scale SLAM, the majority of existing methods rely on non-linear optimization techniques to find…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Joshua G. Mangelson , Jinsun Liu , Ryan M. Eustice , Ram Vasudevan

Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is a task to estimate the robot location and to reconstruct the environment based on observation from sensors such as LIght Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) and camera. It is widely used in robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Han Wang , Chen Wang , Lihua Xie

Accurate estimation of the environment structure simultaneously with the robot pose is a key capability of autonomous robotic vehicles. Classical simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms rely on the static world assumption to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Mina Henein , Gerard Kennedy , Viorela Ila , Robert Mahony

Decentralized visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a powerful tool for multi-robot applications in environments where absolute positioning systems are not available. Being visual, it relies on cameras, cheap, lightweight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Titus Cieslewski , Siddharth Choudhary , Davide Scaramuzza

Simultaneous localization and mapping, especially the one relying solely on video data (vSLAM), is a challenging problem that has been extensively studied in robotics and computer vision. State-of-the-art vSLAM algorithms are capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Andrey Bokovoy , Kirill Muraviev , Konstantin Yakovlev

The visual simultaneous localization and mapping(vSLAM) is widely used in GPS-denied and open field environments for ground and surface robots. However, due to the frequent perception failures derived from lacking visual texture or the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Zhihao Wang , Haoyao Chen , Shiwu Zhang , Yunjiang Lou

Multi-robot visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system is normally consisted of multiple mobile robots equipped with camera and/or other visual sensors. The networked robots work independently or cooperatively in an unknown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Biwei Li , Zhenqiang Mi , Yu Guo , Yang Yang , Mohammad S. Obaidat

Visual SLAM algorithms have been enhanced through the exploration of Gaussian Splatting representations, particularly in generating high-fidelity dense maps. While existing methods perform reliably in static environments, they often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yi Liu , Keyu Fan , Bin Lan , Houde Liu