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The majority of approaches for acquiring dense 3D environment maps with RGB-D cameras assumes static environments or rejects moving objects as outliers. The representation and tracking of moving objects, however, has significant potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Michael Strecke , Jörg Stückler

In this paper, we propose a RGB-D SLAM system that reconstructs a language-aligned dense feature field while sustaining low-latency tracking and mapping. First, we introduce a Top-K Rendering pipeline, a high-throughput and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Seongbo Ha , Sibaek Lee , Kyungsu Kang , Joonyeol Choi , Seungjun Tak , Hyeonwoo Yu

We present an uncertainty learning framework for dense neural simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Estimating pixel-wise uncertainties for the depth input of dense SLAM methods allows re-weighing the tracking and mapping losses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Erik Sandström , Kevin Ta , Luc Van Gool , Martin R. Oswald

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

We introduce MUTE-SLAM, a real-time neural RGB-D SLAM system employing multiple tri-plane hash-encodings for efficient scene representation. MUTE-SLAM effectively tracks camera positions and incrementally builds a scalable multi-map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yifan Yan , Ruomin He , Zhenghua Liu

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system typically employ vision-based sensors to observe the surrounding environment. However, the performance of such systems highly depends on the ambient illumination conditions. In scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Muhamad Risqi U. Saputra , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Pedro P. B. de Gusmao , Bing Wang , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

This work presents a novel RGB-D-inertial dynamic SLAM method that can enable accurate localisation when the majority of the camera view is occluded by multiple dynamic objects over a long period of time. Most dynamic SLAM approaches either…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Ran Long , Christian Rauch , Vladimir Ivan , Tin Lun Lam , Sethu Vijayakumar

We present a mapping system capable of constructing detailed instance-level semantic models of room-sized indoor environments by means of an RGB-D camera. In this work, we integrate deep-learning-based instance segmentation and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Dinh-Cuong Hoang , Todor Stoyanov , Achim J. Lilienthal

In this paper, a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method that eliminates the influence of moving objects in dynamic environments is proposed. This method utilizes the correlation between map points to separate points that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Weichen Dai , Yu Zhang , Ping Li , Zheng Fang , Sebastian Scherer

We propose SemGauss-SLAM, a dense semantic SLAM system utilizing 3D Gaussian representation, that enables accurate 3D semantic mapping, robust camera tracking, and high-quality rendering simultaneously. In this system, we incorporate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Siting Zhu , Renjie Qin , Guangming Wang , Jiuming Liu , Hesheng Wang

We introduce NeuV-SLAM, a novel dense simultaneous localization and mapping pipeline based on neural multiresolution voxels, characterized by ultra-fast convergence and incremental expansion capabilities. This pipeline utilizes RGBD images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Wenzhi Guo , Bing Wang , Lijun Chen

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

Recent progress in dense SLAM has primarily targeted monocular setups, often at the expense of robustness and geometric coverage. We present MCGS-SLAM, the first purely RGB-based multi-camera SLAM system built on 3D Gaussian Splatting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zhihao Cao , Hanyu Wu , Li Wa Tang , Zizhou Luo , Wei Zhang , Marc Pollefeys , Zihan Zhu , Martin R. Oswald

We consider the problem of dense depth prediction from a sparse set of depth measurements and a single RGB image. Since depth estimation from monocular images alone is inherently ambiguous and unreliable, to attain a higher level of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Fangchang Ma , Sertac Karaman

We present a real-time tracking SLAM system that unifies efficient camera tracking with photorealistic feature-enriched mapping using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Our main contribution is integrating dense feature rasterization into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Christopher Thirgood , Oscar Mendez , Erin Ling , Jon Storey , Simon Hadfield

We propose a dense RGBD SLAM system based on 3D Gaussian Splatting that provides metrically accurate pose tracking and visually realistic reconstruction. To this end, we first propose a Gaussian densification strategy based on the rendering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Shuo Sun , Malcolm Mielle , Achim J. Lilienthal , Martin Magnusson

We present a novel neural RGB-D Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) system that learns an implicit map of the scene in real time. For the first time, we explore the use of Scene Coordinate Regression (SCR) as the core implicit map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Ignacio Alzugaray , Marwan Taher , Andrew J. Davison

We present a deep model that can accurately produce dense depth maps given an RGB image with known depth at a very sparse set of pixels. The model works simultaneously for both indoor/outdoor scenes and produces state-of-the-art dense depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Zhao Chen , Vijay Badrinarayanan , Gilad Drozdov , Andrew Rabinovich

Dynamic environments are challenging for visual SLAM since the moving objects occlude the static environment features and lead to wrong camera motion estimation. In this paper, we present a novel dense RGB-D SLAM solution that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Tianwei Zhang , Huayan Zhang , Yang Li , Yoshihiko Nakamura , Lei Zhang

The research in dense online 3D mapping is mostly focused on the geometrical accuracy and spatial extent of the reconstructions. Their color appearance is often neglected, leading to inconsistent colors and noticeable artifacts. We rectify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Sergey V. Alexandrov , Johann Prankl , Michael Zillich , Markus Vincze