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We present a visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) framework of closing surface loops. It combines both sparse feature matching and dense surface alignment. Sparse feature matching is used for visual odometry and globally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Guoxiang Zhang , YangQuan Chen

Visual loop closure detection is an important module in visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), which associates current camera observation with previously visited places. Loop closures correct drifts in trajectory estimation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Jingwen Yu , Hanjing Ye , Jianhao Jiao , Ping Tan , Hong Zhang

In visual Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM), detecting loop closures has been an important but difficult task. Currently, most solutions are based on the bag-of-words approach. Yet the possibility of deep neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Zhang Qianhao , Alexander Mai , Joseph Menke , Allen Yang

A key component of graph-based SLAM systems is the ability to detect loop closures in a trajectory to reduce the drift accumulated over time from the odometry. Most LiDAR-based methods achieve this goal by using only the geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-29 José Arce , Niclas Vödisch , Daniele Cattaneo , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

LiDAR loop closure detection (LCD) is crucial for consistent Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) but faces challenges in robustness and accuracy. Existing methods, including semantic graph approaches, often suffer from coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Xiong Li , Shulei Liu , Xingning Chen , Yisong Wu , Dong Zhu

Loop-closure detection (LCD) in large non-stationary environments remains an important challenge in robotic visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM). To reduce computational and perceptual complexity, it is helpful if a vSLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Tanaka Kanji , Yamaguchi Kousuke , Sugimoto Takuma

Collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (CSLAM) is a critical capability for enabling multiple robots to operate in complex environments. Most CSLAM techniques rely on the transmission of low-level features for visual and…

Neural field-based SLAM methods typically employ a single, monolithic field as their scene representation. This prevents efficient incorporation of loop closure constraints and limits scalability. To address these shortcomings, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Leonard Bruns , Jun Zhang , Patric Jensfelt

Current Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM) systems often struggle to create maps that are both semantically rich and easily interpretable. While incorporating semantic scene knowledge aids in building richer maps with…

Data association in SLAM is fundamentally challenging, and handling ambiguity well is crucial to achieve robust operation in real-world environments. When ambiguous measurements arise, conservatism often mandates that the measurement is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Kristoffer M. Frey , Ted J. Steiner , Jonathan P. How

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is one of the most essential techniques in many real-world robotic applications. The assumption of static environments is common in most SLAM algorithms, which however, is not the case for most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Han Wang , Jing Ying Ko , Lihua Xie

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) frameworks for autonomous navigation rely on robust data association to identify loop closures for back-end trajectory optimization. In the case of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) equipped…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Jiarui Tan , Ignacio Torroba , Yiping Xie , John Folkesson

Loop closure detection is an essential component of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems, which reduces the drift accumulated over time. Over the years, several deep learning approaches have been proposed to address this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Daniele Cattaneo , Matteo Vaghi , Abhinav Valada

Loop closure is crucial for maintaining the accuracy and consistency of visual SLAM. We propose a method to improve loop closure performance in DPV-SLAM. Our approach integrates AnyLoc, a learning-based visual place recognition technique,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Wenzheng Zhang , Kazuki Adachi , Yoshitaka Hara , Sousuke Nakamura

Loop closure detection plays an important role in reducing localization drift in Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM). It aims to find repetitive scenes from historical data to reset localization. To tackle the loop closure problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Han Wang , Juncheng Li , Maopeng Ran , Lihua Xie

Visual loop closure detection traditionally relies on place recognition methods to retrieve candidate loops that are validated using computationally expensive RANSAC-based geometric verification. As false positive loop closures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Martin Büchner , Liza Dahiya , Simon Dorer , Vipul Ramtekkar , Kenji Nishimiya , Daniele Cattaneo , Abhinav Valada

Recently the dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) based on neural implicit representation has shown impressive progress in hole filling and high-fidelity mapping. Nevertheless, existing methods either heavily rely on known…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Jiahui Wang , Yinan Deng , Yi Yang , Yufeng Yue

A key functional block of visual navigation system for intelligent autonomous vehicles is Loop Closure detection and subsequent relocalisation. State-of-the-Art methods still approach the problem as uni-directional along the direction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Ihtisham Ali , Sari Peltonen , Atanas Gotchev

LiDAR-based SLAM system is admittedly more accurate and stable than others, while its loop closure detection is still an open issue. With the development of 3D semantic segmentation for point cloud, semantic information can be obtained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Lin Li , Xin Kong , Xiangrui Zhao , Wanlong Li , Feng Wen , Hongbo Zhang , Yong Liu

Traditional attempts for loop closure detection typically use hand-crafted features, relying on geometric and visual information only, whereas more modern approaches tend to use semantic, appearance or geometric features extracted from deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Nathaniel Merrill , Guoquan Huang