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Object Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems struggle to correctly associate semantically similar objects in close proximity, especially in cluttered indoor environments and when scenes change. We present Semantic Enhancement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jungseok Hong , Ran Choi , John J. Leonard

2D LiDAR SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) is widely used in indoor environments due to its stability and flexibility. However, its mapping procedure is usually operated by a joystick in static environments, while indoor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hanjing Ye , Guangcheng Chen , Weinan Chen , Li He , Yisheng Guan , Hong Zhang

We present a method for single image 3D cuboid object detection and multi-view object SLAM in both static and dynamic environments, and demonstrate that the two parts can improve each other. Firstly for single image object detection, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Shichao Yang , Sebastian Scherer

Robotic practitioners generally approach the vision-based SLAM problem through discrete-time formulations. This has the advantage of a consolidated theory and very good understanding of success and failure cases. However, discrete-time SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Giovanni Cioffi , Titus Cieslewski , Davide Scaramuzza

This work presents a novel RGB-D SLAM approach to simultaneously segment, track and reconstruct the static background and large dynamic rigid objects that can occlude major portions of the camera view. Previous approaches treat dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Ran Long , Christian Rauch , Tianwei Zhang , Vladimir Ivan , Sethu Vijayakumar

The ability for an agent to localize itself within an environment is crucial for many real-world applications. For unknown environments, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) enables incremental and concurrent building of and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Emilio Parisotto , Devendra Singh Chaplot , Jian Zhang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) allows mobile robots to navigate without external positioning systems or pre-existing maps. Radar is emerging as a valuable sensing tool, especially in vision-obstructed environments, as it is…

We present a self-supervised learning approach for the semantic segmentation of lidar frames. Our method is used to train a deep point cloud segmentation architecture without any human annotation. The annotation process is automated with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Hugues Thomas , Ben Agro , Mona Gridseth , Jian Zhang , Timothy D. Barfoot

The integration of neural rendering and the SLAM system recently showed promising results in joint localization and photorealistic view reconstruction. However, existing methods, fully relying on implicit representations, are so…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Huajian Huang , Longwei Li , Hui Cheng , Sai-Kit Yeung

Some of the threats in the dynamic environment include the unpredictability of the motion of objects and interferences to the robotic grasp. In such conditions the traditional supervised and reinforcement learning approaches are ill suited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Ankit Shaw

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

Among the abilities that autonomous mobile robots should exhibit, map building and localization are definitely recognized as fundamental. Consequently, countless algorithms for solving the Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Matteo Luperto , Valerio Castelli , Francesco Amigoni

For the SLAM system in robotics and autonomous driving, the accuracy of front-end odometry and back-end loop-closure detection determine the whole intelligent system performance. But the LiDAR-SLAM could be disturbed by current scene moving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Qipeng Li , Yuan Zhuang , Yiwen Chen , Jianzhu Huai , Miao Li , Tianbing Ma , Yufei Tang , Xinlian Liang

We present WildGS-SLAM, a robust and efficient monocular RGB SLAM system designed to handle dynamic environments by leveraging uncertainty-aware geometric mapping. Unlike traditional SLAM systems, which assume static scenes, our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jianhao Zheng , Zihan Zhu , Valentin Bieri , Marc Pollefeys , Songyou Peng , Iro Armeni

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms are essential for the autonomous navigation of mobile robots. With the increasing demand for autonomous systems, it is crucial to evaluate and compare the performance of these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Nwankwo Linus , Elmar Rueckert

We propose a self-supervised spatio-temporal matching method, coined Motion-Aware Mask Propagation (MAMP), for video object segmentation. MAMP leverages the frame reconstruction task for training without the need for annotations. During…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Bo Miao , Mohammed Bennamoun , Yongsheng Gao , Ajmal Mian

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a critical capability for autonomous systems. Traditional SLAM approaches, which often rely on visual or LiDAR sensors, face significant challenges in adverse conditions such as low light or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Dong Wang , Hannes Haag , Daniel Casado Herraez , Stefan May , Cyrill Stachniss , Andreas Nüchter

Robust Visual SLAM (vSLAM) is essential for autonomous systems operating in real-world environments, where challenges such as dynamic objects, low texture, and critically, varying illumination conditions often degrade performance. Existing…

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

Exploring an unfamiliar indoor environment and avoiding obstacles is challenging for visually impaired people. Currently, several approaches achieve the avoidance of static obstacles based on the mapping of indoor scenes. To solve the issue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Wenyan Ou , Jiaming Zhang , Kunyu Peng , Kailun Yang , Gerhard Jaworek , Karin Müller , Rainer Stiefelhagen