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Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems with novel view synthesis capabilities are widely used in computer vision, with applications in augmented reality, robotics, and autonomous driving. However, existing approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Vladimir Yugay , Theo Gevers , 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…

Recently, the multi-modal fusion of RGB, depth, and semantics has shown great potential in dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). However, a prerequisite for generating consistent semantic maps is the availability of dense,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Linfei Li , Lin Zhang , Zhong Wang , Ying Shen

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

Recently, 3D Gaussian splatting-based RGB-D SLAM displays remarkable performance of high-fidelity 3D reconstruction. However, the lack of depth rendering consistency and efficient loop closure limits the quality of its geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xingguang Zhong , Yue Pan , Liren Jin , Marija Popović , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Neural implicit representations have recently demonstrated considerable potential in the field of visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). This is due to their inherent advantages, including low storage overhead and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Lizhi Bai , Chunqi Tian , Jun Yang , Siyu Zhang , Weijian Liang

A dense SLAM system is essential for mobile robots, as it provides localization and allows navigation, path planning, obstacle avoidance, and decision-making in unstructured environments. Due to increasing computational demands the use of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Emiliano Höss , Pablo De Cristóforis

We propose a novel, vision-only object-level SLAM framework for automotive applications representing 3D shapes by implicit signed distance functions. Our key innovation consists of augmenting the standard neural representation by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Li Cui , Yang Ding , Richard Hartley , Zirui Xie , Laurent Kneip , Zhenghua 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

Implicit neural representation (INR), in combination with geometric rendering, has recently been employed in real-time dense RGB-D SLAM. Despite active research endeavors being made, there lacks a unified protocol for fair evaluation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Tongyan Hua , Lin Wang

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

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (vSLAM) is a widely used technique in robotics and computer vision that enables a robot to create a map of an unfamiliar environment using a camera sensor while simultaneously tracking its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yasaman Haghighi , Suryansh Kumar , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Luc Van Gool

We show for the first time that a multilayer perceptron (MLP) can serve as the only scene representation in a real-time SLAM system for a handheld RGB-D camera. Our network is trained in live operation without prior data, building a dense,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Edgar Sucar , Shikun Liu , Joseph Ortiz , Andrew J. Davison

Visual SLAM has regained attention due to its ability to provide perceptual capabilities and simulation test data for Embodied AI. However, traditional SLAM methods struggle to meet the demands of high-quality scene reconstruction, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Fan Zhu , Yifan Zhao , Ziyu Chen , Biao Yu , Hui Zhu

We present SGS-SLAM, the first semantic visual SLAM system based on Gaussian Splatting. It incorporates appearance, geometry, and semantic features through multi-channel optimization, addressing the oversmoothing limitations of neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Mingrui Li , Shuhong Liu , Heng Zhou , Guohao Zhu , Na Cheng , Tianchen Deng , Hongyu Wang

We introduce EC-SLAM, a real-time dense RGB-D simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system leveraging Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). While recent NeRF-based SLAM systems have shown promising results, they have yet to fully exploit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Guanghao Li , Qi Chen , YuXiang Yan , Jian Pu

Recent advancements in RGB-only dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) have predominantly utilized grid-based neural implicit encodings and/or struggle to efficiently realize global map and pose consistency. To this end, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Ganlin Zhang , Erik Sandström , Youmin Zhang , Manthan Patel , Luc Van Gool , Martin R. Oswald

We propose GauS-SLAM, a dense RGB-D SLAM system that leverages 2D Gaussian surfels to achieve robust tracking and high-fidelity mapping. Our investigations reveal that Gaussian-based scene representations exhibit geometry distortion under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yongxin Su , Lin Chen , Kaiting Zhang , Zhongliang Zhao , Chenfeng Hou , Ziping Yu

In this paper, we consider the problems in the practical application of visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). With the popularization and application of the technology in wide scope, the practicability of SLAM system has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 BaoSheng Zhang

Simultaneous mapping and localization (SLAM) in an real indoor environment is still a challenging task. Traditional SLAM approaches rely heavily on low-level geometric constraints like corners or lines, which may lead to tracking failure in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Xueyang Kang , Shunying Yuan