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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…

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Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Thorsten Hempel , Ayoub Al-Hamadi

Compared to regular cameras, Dynamic Vision Sensors or Event Cameras can output compact visual data based on a change in the intensity in each pixel location asynchronously. In this paper, we study the application of current image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Masoud Dayani Najafabadi , Mohammad Reza Ahmadzadeh

Estimating the 3D structure of the human body from natural scenes is a fundamental aspect of visual perception. 3D human pose estimation is a vital step in advancing fields like AIGC and human-robot interaction, serving as a crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Jiong Wang , Fengyu Yang , Wenbo Gou , Bingliang Li , Danqi Yan , Ailing Zeng , Yijun Gao , Junle Wang , Yanqing Jing , Ruimao Zhang

This study proposes a privacy-preserving Visual SLAM framework for estimating camera poses and performing bundle adjustment with mixed line and point clouds in real time. Previous studies have proposed localization methods to estimate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Mikiya Shibuya , Shinya Sumikura , Ken Sakurada

Robust and accurate pose estimation is crucial for many applications in mobile robotics. Extending visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) with other modalities such as an inertial measurement unit (IMU) can boost robustness and…

We propose a bootstrapping framework to enhance human optical flow and pose. We show that, for videos involving humans in scenes, we can improve both the optical flow and the pose estimation quality of humans by considering the two tasks at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Aritro Roy Arko , James J. Little , Kwang Moo Yi

Markerless motion capture enables the tracking of human motion without requiring physical markers or suits, offering increased flexibility and reduced costs compared to traditional systems. However, these advantages often come at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 David Tolpin , Sefy Kagarlitsky

Achieving robust and precise pose estimation in dynamic scenes is a significant research challenge in Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Recent advancements integrating Gaussian Splatting into SLAM systems have proven…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Yueming Xu , Haochen Jiang , Zhongyang Xiao , Jianfeng Feng , Li Zhang

The assumption of scene rigidity is common in visual SLAM algorithms. However, it limits their applicability in populated real-world environments. Furthermore, most scenarios including autonomous driving, multi-robot collaboration and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Berta Bescos , Carlos Campos , Juan D. Tardós , José Neira

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

It holds great implications for practical applications to enable centimeter-accuracy positioning for mobile and wearable sensor systems. In this paper, we propose a novel, high-precision, efficient visual-inertial (VI)-SLAM algorithm,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Patrick Geneva , James Maley , Guoquan Huang

SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) seeks to provide a moving agent with real-time self-localization. To achieve real-time speed, SLAM incrementally propagates position estimates. This makes SLAM fast but also makes it vulnerable…

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Autonomous driving has spurred the development of sensor fusion techniques, which combine data from multiple sensors to improve system performance. In particular, localization system based on sensor fusion , such as Visual Simultaneous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Xiaowen Tao , Pengxiang Meng , Bing Zhu , Jian Zhao

Visual-inertial SLAM is crucial in various fields, such as aerial vehicles, industrial robots, and autonomous driving. The fusion of camera and inertial measurement unit (IMU) makes up for the shortcomings of a signal sensor, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Jiaming He , Mingrui Li , Yangyang Wang , Hongyu Wang

We present VIGS-SLAM, a visual-inertial 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM system that achieves robust real-time tracking and high-fidelity reconstruction. Although recent 3DGS-based SLAM methods achieve dense and photorealistic mapping, their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zihan Zhu , Wei Zhang , Moyang Li , Norbert Haala , Marc Pollefeys , Daniel Barath

Real-time object pose estimation is necessary for many robot manipulation algorithms. However, state-of-the-art methods for object pose estimation are trained for a specific set of objects; these methods thus need to be retrained to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Qiao Gu , Brian Okorn , David Held

Precise camera tracking, high-fidelity 3D tissue reconstruction, and real-time online visualization are critical for intrabody medical imaging devices such as endoscopes and capsule robots. However, existing SLAM (Simultaneous Localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Kailing Wang , Chen Yang , Yuehao Wang , Sikuang Li , Yan Wang , Qi Dou , Xiaokang Yang , Wei Shen

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

Event-based cameras are bio-inspired sensors with pixels that independently and asynchronously respond to brightness changes at microsecond resolution, offering the potential to handle visual tasks in high-speed maneuvering scenarios.…