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We present a dataset for evaluating the tracking accuracy of monocular visual odometry and SLAM methods. It contains 50 real-world sequences comprising more than 100 minutes of video, recorded across dozens of different environments --…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Jakob Engel , Vladyslav Usenko , Daniel Cremers

This paper presents a hybrid real-time camera pose estimation framework with a novel partitioning scheme and introduces motion averaging to monocular Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems. Breaking through the limitations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Xinyi Li , Haibin Ling

Visual SLAM shows significant progress in recent years due to high attention from vision community but still, challenges remain for low-textured environments. Feature based visual SLAMs do not produce reliable camera and structure estimates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Soumyadip Maity , Arindam Saha , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

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

Underwater monocular SLAM is a challenging problem with applications from autonomous underwater vehicles to marine archaeology. However, existing underwater SLAM methods struggle to produce maps with high-fidelity rendering. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Kangxu Wang , Shaofeng Zou , Chenxing Jiang , Yixiang Dai , Siang Chen , Shaojie Shen , Guijin Wang

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

We present SLAM-Former, a novel neural approach that integrates full SLAM capabilities into a single transformer. Similar to traditional SLAM systems, SLAM-Former comprises both a frontend and a backend that operate in tandem. The frontend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yijun Yuan , Zhuoguang Chen , Kenan Li , Weibang Wang , Hang Zhao

We introduce a new system for Multi-Session SLAM, which tracks camera motion across multiple disjoint videos under a single global reference. Our approach couples the prediction of optical flow with solver layers to estimate camera pose.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Lahav Lipson , Jia Deng

Localization and mapping with heterogeneous multi-sensor fusion have been prevalent in recent years. To adequately fuse multi-modal sensor measurements received at different time instants and different frequencies, we estimate the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Jiajun Lv , Xiaolei Lang , Jinhong Xu , Mengmeng Wang , Yong Liu , Xingxing Zuo

We present an inverse image-formation module that can enhance the robustness of existing visual SLAM pipelines for casually captured scenarios. Casual video captures often suffer from motion blur and varying appearances, which degrade the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Gwangtak Bae , Changwoon Choi , Hyeongjun Heo , Sang Min Kim , Young Min Kim

An essential task for a multi-robot system is generating a common understanding of the environment and relative poses between robots. Cooperative tasks can be executed only when a vehicle has knowledge of its own state and the states of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-04 John McConnell , Yewei Huang , Paul Szenher , Ivana Collado-Gonzalez , Brendan Englot

Cooperative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (C-SLAM) enables multiple agents to work together in mapping unknown environments while simultaneously estimating their own positions. This approach enhances robustness, scalability, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Joshua Bird , Jan Blumenkamp , Amanda Prorok

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) plays an important role in many robotics fields, including social robots. Many of the available visual SLAM methods are based on the assumption of a static world and struggle in dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Mobin Habibpour , Alireza Nemati , Ali Meghdari , Alireza Taheri , Shima Nazari

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled RGB-only SLAM systems to achieve high-fidelity scene representation. However, the heavy reliance of existing systems on photometric rendering loss for camera tracking undermines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhen Tan , Xieyuanli Chen , Lei Feng , Yangbing Ge , Shuaifeng Zhi , Jiaxiong Liu , Dewen Hu

SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) and Odometry are important systems for estimating the position of mobile devices, such as robots and cars, utilizing one or more sensors. Particularly in camera-based SLAM or Odometry,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Sanghyun Park , Soohee Han

Most Simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) systems have traditionally assumed a static world, which does not align with real-world scenarios. To enable robots to safely navigate and plan in dynamic environments, it is essential to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Jesse Morris , Yiduo Wang , Viorela Ila

This article presents a new open-source C++ implementation to solve the SLAM problem, which is focused on genericity, versatility and high execution speed. It is based on an original object oriented architecture, that allows the combination…

Visual SLAM systems targeting static scenes have been developed with satisfactory accuracy and robustness. Dynamic 3D object tracking has then become a significant capability in visual SLAM with the requirement of understanding dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Hanwei Zhang , Hideaki Uchiyama , Shintaro Ono , Hiroshi Kawasaki

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has become a critical technology for intelligent transportation systems and autonomous robots and is widely used in autonomous driving. However, traditional manual feature-based methods in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Zhiqi Zhao , Chang Wu , Xiaotong Kong , Zejie Lv , Xiaoqi Du , Qiyan Li

Determining the position and orientation of a sensor vis-a-vis its surrounding, while simultaneously mapping the environment around that sensor or simultaneous localization and mapping is quickly becoming an important advancement in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Joonas Lomps , Artjom Lind , Amnir Hadachi