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Visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) plays a critical role in autonomous robotic systems, especially where accurate and reliable measurements are essential for navigation and sensing. In feature-based SLAM, the quantityand…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Haolan Zhang , Chenghao Li , Thanh Nguyen Canh , Lijun Wang , Nak Young Chong

We present the concept of concurrent flow-based localization and mapping (FLAM) for autonomous field robots navigating within background flows. Different from the classical simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem, where the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Zhuoyuan Song , Kamran Mohseni

Neural RGBD SLAM techniques have shown promise in dense Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM), yet face challenges such as error accumulation during camera tracking resulting in distorted maps. In response, we introduce Loopy-SLAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Lorenzo Liso , Erik Sandström , Vladimir Yugay , Luc Van Gool , Martin R. Oswald

This paper implements Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technique to construct a map of a given environment. A Real Time Appearance Based Mapping (RTAB-Map) approach was taken for accomplishing this task. Initially, a 2d…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Sagarnil Das

Lidar SLAM plays a significant role in mobile robot navigation and high-definition map construction. However, existing methods often face a trade-off between localization accuracy and system robustness in scenarios with a high proportion of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yongxin Shao , Aihong Tan , Binrui Wang , Yinlian Jin , Licong Guan , Peng Liao

Simultaneous Localization & Mapping (SLAM) is the process of building a mutual relationship between localization and mapping of the subject in its surrounding environment. With the help of different sensors, various types of SLAM systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Rushmian Annoy Wadud , Wei Sun

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is an essential component of robotic systems. In this work we perform a feasibility study of RGB-D SLAM for the task of indoor robot navigation. Recent visual SLAM methods, e.g. ORBSLAM2…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 David Prokhorov , Dmitry Zhukov , Olga Barinova , Anna Vorontsova , Anton Konushin

A reliable, real-time simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method is crucial for the navigation of actively controlled capsule endoscopy robots. These robots are an emerging, minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic technology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Mehmet Turan , Yasin Almalioglu , Hunter Gilbert , Helder Araujo , Ender Konukoglu , Metin Sitti

The 3D reconstruction of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is an important topic in the field for transport systems such as drones, service robots and mobile AR/VR devices. Compared to a point cloud representation, the 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Quentin Picard , Stephane Chevobbe , Mehdi Darouich , Jean-Yves Didier

A robust visual localization and mapping system is essential for warehouse robot navigation, as cameras offer a more cost-effective alternative to LiDAR sensors. However, existing forward-facing camera systems often encounter challenges in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Kuan Xu , Zheng Yang , Lihua Xie , Chen Wang

Traditional approaches to stereo visual SLAM rely on point features to estimate the camera trajectory and build a map of the environment. In low-textured environments, though, it is often difficult to find a sufficient number of reliable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Ruben Gomez-Ojeda , David Zuñiga-Noël , Francisco-Angel Moreno , Davide Scaramuzza , Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez

Object-level SLAM offers structured and semantically meaningful environment representations, making it more interpretable and suitable for high-level robotic tasks. However, most existing approaches rely on RGB-D sensors or monocular views,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Miaoxin Pan , Jinnan Li , Yaowen Zhang , Yi Yang , Yufeng Yue

In recent years, the paradigm of neural implicit representations has gained substantial attention in the field of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). However, a notable gap exists in the existing approaches when it comes to scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Hongjia Zhai , Gan Huang , Qirui Hu , Guanglin Li , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang

Classification of different object surface material types can play a significant role in the decision-making algorithms for mobile robots and autonomous vehicles. RGB-based scene-level semantic segmentation has been well-addressed in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Siva Krishna Ravipati , Ehsan Latif , Ramviyas Parasuraman , Suchendra M. Bhandarkar

In this paper, we propose a lightweight system, RDS-SLAM, based on ORB-SLAM2, which can accurately estimate poses and build semantic maps at object level for dynamic scenarios in real time using only one commonly used Intel Core i7 CPU. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Xingyu Chen , Jianru Xue , Jianwu Fang , Yuxin Pan , Nanning Zheng

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

We propose a dense neural simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) approach for monocular RGBD input which anchors the features of a neural scene representation in a point cloud that is iteratively generated in an input-dependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Erik Sandström , Yue Li , Luc Van Gool , Martin R. Oswald

Achieving real-time Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) based on 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) in large-scale real-world environments remains challenging, as existing methods still struggle to jointly achieve low-latency pose…

Visual degradation caused by limited visibility, insufficient lighting, and feature scarcity in underwater environments presents significant challenges to visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems. To address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Shuoshuo Ding , Tiedong Zhang , Dapeng Jiang , Ming Lei

This paper presents a robust approach for a visual parallel tracking and mapping (PTAM) system that excels in challenging environments. Our proposed method combines the strengths of heterogeneous multi-modal visual sensors, including stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Abanob Soliman , Fabien Bonardi , Désiré Sidibé , Samia Bouchafa