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Monocular visual odometry is a key technology in various autonomous systems. Traditional feature-based methods suffer from failures due to poor lighting, insufficient texture, and large motions. In contrast, recent learning-based dense SLAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Takayuki Kanai , Igor Vasiljevic , Vitor Guizilini , Kazuhiro Shintani

Medical endoscopy remains a challenging application for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) due to the sparsity of image features and size constraints that prevent direct depth-sensing. We present a SLAM approach that incorporates…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Richard J. Chen , Taylor L. Bobrow , Thomas Athey , Faisal Mahmood , Nicholas J. Durr

We propose DSP-SLAM, an object-oriented SLAM system that builds a rich and accurate joint map of dense 3D models for foreground objects, and sparse landmark points to represent the background. DSP-SLAM takes as input the 3D point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Jingwen Wang , Martin Rünz , Lourdes Agapito

Object-level Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), which incorporates semantic information for high-level scene understanding, faces challenges of under-constrained optimization due to sparse observations. Prior work has introduced…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yang Jiao , Yiding Qiu , Henrik I. Christensen

We propose Unblur-SLAM, a novel RGB SLAM pipeline for sharp 3D reconstruction from blurred image inputs. In contrast to previous work, our approach is able to handle different types of blur and demonstrates state-of-the-art performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Qi Zhang , Denis Rozumny , Francesco Girlanda , Sezer Karaoglu , Marc Pollefeys , Theo Gevers , Martin R. Oswald

We propose GSO-SLAM, a real-time monocular dense SLAM system that leverages Gaussian scene representation. Unlike existing methods that couple tracking and mapping with a unified scene, incurring computational costs, or loosely integrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jiung Yeon , Seongbo Ha , Hyeonwoo Yu

Visual simultaneous localization and mapping (VSLAM) has broad applications, with state-of-the-art methods leveraging deep neural networks for better robustness and applicability. However, there is a lack of research in fusing these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Yuxuan Zhou , Xingxing Li , Shengyu Li , Xuanbin Wang , Shaoquan Feng , Yuxuan Tan

Previous attempts to integrate Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) into the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) framework either rely on the assumption of static scenes or require the ground truth camera poses, which impedes their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Chengyao Duan , Zhiliu Yang

This paper presents a novel method to reduce the scale drift for indoor monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). We leverage the prior knowledge that in the indoor environment, the line segments form tight clusters, e.g. many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Ting Sun , Dezhen Song , Dit-Yan Yeung , Ming Liu

This paper presents a novel tightly-coupled monocular visual-inertial Simultaneous Localization and Mapping algorithm, which provides accurate and robust localization within the globally consistent map in real time on a standard CPU. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Meixiang Quan , Songhao Piao , Minglang Tan , Shi-Sheng Huang

As the foundation of driverless vehicle and intelligent robots, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping(SLAM) has attracted much attention these days. However, non-geometric modules of traditional SLAM algorithms are limited by data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Rong Kang , Jieqi Shi , Xueming Li , Yang Liu , Xiao Liu

In this paper, we cover the process of integrating Large-Scale Direct Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (LSD-SLAM) algorithm into our existing AR stereo engine, developed for our modified "Augmented Reality Oculus Rift". With that, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Markus Höll , Vincent Lepetit

Estimating depth from RGB images can facilitate many computer vision tasks, such as indoor localization, height estimation, and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Recently, monocular depth estimation has obtained great progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Qing Li , Jiasong Zhu , Jun Liu , Rui Cao , Qingquan Li , Sen Jia , Guoping Qiu

In addition to the core tasks of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), active SLAM additionally in- volves generating robot actions that enable effective and efficient exploration of unknown environments. However, existing active…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Xiangqi Meng , Pengxu Hou , Zhenjun Zhao , Javier Civera , Daniel Cremers , Hesheng Wang , Haoang Li

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

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

We introduce DROID-SLAM, a new deep learning based SLAM system. DROID-SLAM consists of recurrent iterative updates of camera pose and pixelwise depth through a Dense Bundle Adjustment layer. DROID-SLAM is accurate, achieving large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Zachary Teed , Jia Deng

Visual SLAM systems targeting static scenes have been developed with satisfactory accuracy and robustness. Dynamic 3D object tracking has then become a significant capability in visual SLAM with the requirement of understanding dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Hanwei Zhang , Hideaki Uchiyama , Shintaro Ono , Hiroshi Kawasaki

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems are fundamental building blocks for any autonomous robot navigating in unknown environments. The SLAM implementation heavily depends on the sensor modality employed on the mobile…

Robust efficient loop closure detection is essential for large-scale real-time SLAM. In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised deep neural network architecture of a feature embedding for visual loop closure that is both reliable and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Nate Merrill , Guoquan Huang