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Decentralized visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a powerful tool for multi-robot applications in environments where absolute positioning systems are not available. Being visual, it relies on cameras, cheap, lightweight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Titus Cieslewski , Siddharth Choudhary , Davide Scaramuzza

Versatile and adaptive semantic understanding would enable autonomous systems to comprehend and interact with their surroundings. Existing fixed-class models limit the adaptability of indoor mobile and assistive autonomous systems. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Christina Kassab , Matias Mattamala , Lintong Zhang , Maurice Fallon

Neural implicit representations have emerged as a promising solution for providing dense geometry in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). However, existing methods in this direction fall short in terms of global consistency and low…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yunxuan Mao , Xuan Yu , Kai Wang , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong , Yiyi Liao

We present a novel Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) method that employs Gaussian Process (GP) based landmark (object) representations. Instead of conventional grid maps or point cloud registration, we model the environment on a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Ali Emre Balcı , Erhan Ege Keyvan , Emre Özkan

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is one of the key robotics tasks as it tackles simultaneous mapping of the unknown environment defined by multiple landmark positions and localization of the unknown pose (i.e., attitude and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-12 Hashim A. Hashim

Point cloud maps generated via LiDAR sensors using extensive remotely sensed data are commonly used by autonomous vehicles and robots for localization and navigation. However, dynamic objects contained in point cloud maps not only downgrade…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Feiya Li , Chunyun Fu , Dongye Sun , Jian Li , Jianwen Wang

Semantic mapping is the task of providing a robot with a map of its environment beyond the open, navigable space of traditional Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms by attaching semantics to locations. The system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-29 David Balaban , Harshavardhan Jagannathan , Henry Liu , Justin Hart

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems to build photorealistic maps. However, these maps lack the open-vocabulary semantic understanding required for advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Sibaek Lee , Seongbo Ha , Kyeongsu Kang , Joonyeol Choi , Seungjun Tak , Hyeonwoo Yu

Accurate and robust simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is crucial for autonomous mobile systems, typically achieved by leveraging the geometric features of the environment. Incorporating semantics provides a richer scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Neng Wang , Huimin Lu , Zhiqiang Zheng , Hesheng Wang , Yun-Hui Liu , Xieyuanli Chen

Many existing visual SLAM methods can achieve high localization accuracy in dynamic environments by leveraging deep learning to mask moving objects. However, these methods incur significant computational overhead as the camera tracking…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yuhao Zhang , Mihai Bujanca , Mikel Luján

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in highly dynamic environments is challenging due to the correlation complexity between moving objects and the camera pose. Many methods have been proposed to deal with this problem; however, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Tuan Dang , Khang Nguyen , Mandfred Huber

Recent advances in neural radiation fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian-based SLAM have achieved impressive localization accuracy and high-quality dense mapping in static scenes. However, these methods remain challenged in dynamic environments,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Wenhua Wu , Chenpeng Su , Siting Zhu , Tianchen Deng , Jianhao Jiao , Guangming Wang , Dimitrios Kanoulas , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

Using the spatial structure of various indoor environments as prior knowledge, the robot would construct the map more efficiently. Autonomous mobile robots generally apply simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) methods to understand…

Accurate estimation of the environment structure simultaneously with the robot pose is a key capability of autonomous robotic vehicles. Classical simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms rely on the static world assumption to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Mina Henein , Gerard Kennedy , Viorela Ila , Robert Mahony

Autonomous navigation is one of the key requirements for every potential application of mobile robots in the real-world. Besides high-accuracy state estimation, a suitable and globally consistent representation of the 3D environment is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Simon Boche , Sebastián Barbas Laina , Stefan Leutenegger

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

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

Existing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms are not robust in challenging low-texture environments because there are only few salient features. The resulting sparse or semi-dense map also conveys little information for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Shichao Yang , Yu Song , Michael Kaess , Sebastian Scherer

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a foundational component in robotics, AR/VR, and autonomous systems. With the rising focus on spatial AI in recent years, combining SLAM with semantic understanding has become increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jisang Yoo , Gyeongjin Kang , Hyun-kyu Ko , Hyeonwoo Yu , Eunbyung Park

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technology enables the construction of environmental maps and localization, serving as a key technique for indoor autonomous navigation of mobile robots. Traditional SLAM methods typically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Jiantao Feng , Xinde Li , HyunCheol Park , Juan Liu , Zhentong Zhang