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As a fundamental task for intelligent robots, visual SLAM has made great progress over the past decades. However, robust SLAM under highly weak-textured environments still remains very challenging. In this paper, we propose a novel visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Qihao Peng , Zhiyu Xiang , YuanGang Fan , Tengqi Zhao , Xijun Zhao

We present VGGT-SLAM, a dense RGB SLAM system constructed by incrementally and globally aligning submaps created from the feed-forward scene reconstruction approach VGGT using only uncalibrated monocular cameras. While related works align…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Dominic Maggio , Hyungtae Lim , Luca Carlone

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is considered to be a fundamental capability for intelligent mobile robots. Over the past decades, many impressed SLAM systems have been developed and achieved good performance under certain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Chao Yu , Zuxin Liu , Xinjun Liu , Fugui Xie , Yi Yang , Qi Wei , Qiao Fei

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

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) technology has recently achieved photorealistic mapping capabilities thanks to the real-time, high-fidelity rendering enabled by 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). However, due to the static…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhicong Sun , Jacqueline Lo , Jinxing Hu

In this paper, we present an efficient visual SLAM system designed to tackle both short-term and long-term illumination challenges. Our system adopts a hybrid approach that combines deep learning techniques for feature detection and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Kuan Xu , Yuefan Hao , Shenghai Yuan , Chen Wang , Lihua Xie

Visual slam technology is one of the key technologies for robot to explore unknown environment independently. Accurate estimation of camera pose based on visual sensor is the basis of autonomous navigation and positioning. However, most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Deng Su , Dehong Chong

This letter introduces a novel framework for dense Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM) based on Gaussian Splatting. Recently, SLAM based on Gaussian Splatting has shown promising results. However, in monocular scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Pengcheng Zhu , Yaoming Zhuang , Baoquan Chen , Li Li , Chengdong Wu , Zhanlin Liu

Implicit neural SLAM has achieved remarkable progress recently. Nevertheless, existing methods face significant challenges in non-ideal scenarios, such as motion blur or lighting variation, which often leads to issues like convergence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Delin Qu , Chi Yan , Dong Wang , Jie Yin , Dan Xu , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

As the foundation of driverless vehicle and intelligent robots, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping(SLAM) has attracted much attention these days. However, non-geometric modules of traditional SLAM algorithms are limited by data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Rong Kang , Jieqi Shi , Xueming Li , Yang Liu , Xiao Liu

We present a robust visual-inertial SLAM system that combines the benefits of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and planar constraints. Our system leverages a CNN to predict the depth map and the corresponding uncertainty map for each…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Pan Ji , Yuan Tian , Qingan Yan , Yuxin Ma , Yi Xu

We introduce Dynamic Gaussian Splatting SLAM (DGS-SLAM), the first dynamic SLAM framework built on the foundation of Gaussian Splatting. While recent advancements in dense SLAM have leveraged Gaussian Splatting to enhance scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Mangyu Kong , Jaewon Lee , Seongwon Lee , Euntai Kim

Gaussian Splatting SLAM (GS-SLAM) offers a notable improvement over traditional SLAM methods, enabling photorealistic 3D reconstruction that conventional approaches often struggle to achieve. However, existing GS-SLAM systems perform poorly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Siyu Chen , Shenghai Yuan , Thien-Minh Nguyen , Zhuyu Huang , Chenyang Shi , Jin Jing , Lihua Xie

We propose a novel dense mapping framework for sparse visual SLAM systems which leverages a compact scene representation. State-of-the-art sparse visual SLAM systems provide accurate and reliable estimates of the camera trajectory and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Hidenobu Matsuki , Raluca Scona , Jan Czarnowski , Andrew J. Davison

In this paper, we present a system for incrementally reconstructing a dense 3D model of the geometry of an outdoor environment using a single monocular camera attached to a moving vehicle. Dense models provide a rich representation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Louis Gallagher , Varun Ravi Kumar , Senthil Yogamani , John B. McDonald

We propose GSO-SLAM, a real-time monocular dense SLAM system that leverages Gaussian scene representation. Unlike existing methods that couple tracking and mapping with a unified scene, incurring computational costs, or loosely integrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jiung Yeon , Seongbo Ha , Hyeonwoo Yu

Extreme exposure degrades both the 3D map reconstruction and semantic segmentation accuracy, which is particularly detrimental to tightly-coupled systems. To achieve illumination invariance, we propose a novel semantic SLAM framework with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Shouhe Zhang , Dayong Ren , Sensen Song , Yurong Qian , Zhenhong Jia

Achieving high-fidelity 3D reconstruction from monocular video remains challenging due to the inherent limitations of traditional methods like Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and monocular SLAM in accurately capturing scene details. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yue Hu , Rong Liu , Meida Chen , Peter Beerel , Andrew Feng

The real-world deployment of fully autonomous mobile robots depends on a robust SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) system, capable of handling dynamic environments, where objects are moving in front of the robot, and changing…

Mobile robots and IoT devices demand real-time localization and dense reconstruction under tight compute and energy budgets. While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables efficient dense SLAM, dynamic objects and occlusions still degrade…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Li Zhang , Yu-An Liu , Xijia Jiang , Conghao Huang , Danyang Li , Yanyong Zhang