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A key functional block of visual navigation system for intelligent autonomous vehicles is Loop Closure detection and subsequent relocalisation. State-of-the-Art methods still approach the problem as uni-directional along the direction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Ihtisham Ali , Sari Peltonen , Atanas Gotchev

Accurate localization and 3D maps are increasingly needed for various artificial intelligence based IoT applications such as augmented reality, intelligent transportation, crowd monitoring, robotics, etc. This article proposes a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Max Jwo Lem Lee , Li-Ta Hsu

Accurate localization and mapping in outdoor environments remains challenging when using consumer-grade hardware, particularly with rolling-shutter cameras and low-precision inertial navigation systems (INS). We present a novel semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Yuchen Zhang , Miao Fan , Shengtong Xu , Xiangzeng Liu , Haoyi Xiong

In visual Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM), detecting loop closures has been an important but difficult task. Currently, most solutions are based on the bag-of-words approach. Yet the possibility of deep neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Zhang Qianhao , Alexander Mai , Joseph Menke , Allen Yang

Recently,3DGaussianSplattinghasshowngreatpotentialin visual Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM). Existing methods have achieved encouraging results on RGB-D SLAM, but studies of the monocular case are still scarce. Moreover, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Tian Lan , Qinwei Lin , Haoqian Wang

In this paper, we propose a novel loop closure detection algorithm that uses graph attention neural networks to encode semantic graphs to perform place recognition and then use semantic registration to estimate the 6 DoF relative pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Liudi Yang , Ruben Mascaro , Ignacio Alzugaray , Sai Manoj Prakhya , Marco Karrer , Ziyuan Liu , Margarita Chli

Reliable loop closure detection remains a critical challenge in 3D LiDAR-based SLAM, especially under sensor noise, environmental ambiguity, and viewpoint variation conditions. RANSAC is often used in the context of loop closures for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Javier Laserna , Saurabh Gupta , Oscar Martinez Mozos , Cyrill Stachniss , Pablo San Segundo

Map-centric SLAM is emerging as an alternative of conventional graph-based SLAM for its accuracy and efficiency in long-term mapping problems. However, in map-centric SLAM, the process of loop closure differs from that of conventional SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Chanoh Park , Soohwan Kim , Peyman Moghadam , Jiadong Guo , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes

Loop Closure Detection (LCD) is the essential module in the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) task. In the current appearance-based SLAM methods, the visual inputs are usually affected by illumination, appearance and viewpoints…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Peng Yin , Yuqing He , Lingyun Xu , Yan Peng , Jianda Han , Weiliang Xu

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

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a critical task in robotics, enabling systems to autonomously navigate and understand complex environments. Current SLAM approaches predominantly rely on geometric cues for mapping and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yongxu Wang , Xu Cao , Weiyun Yi , Zhaoxin Fan

A key component of graph-based SLAM systems is the ability to detect loop closures in a trajectory to reduce the drift accumulated over time from the odometry. Most LiDAR-based methods achieve this goal by using only the geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-29 José Arce , Niclas Vödisch , Daniele Cattaneo , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

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

Monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is emerging in advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving, because a single camera is cheap and easy to install. Conventional monocular SLAM has two major challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Jinkyu Lee , Muhyun Back , Sung Soo Hwang , Il Yong Chun

Loop closing and relocalization are crucial techniques to establish reliable and robust long-term SLAM by addressing pose estimation drift and degeneration. This article begins by formulating loop closing and relocalization within a unified…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Chenghao Shi , Xieyuanli Chen , Junhao Xiao , Bin Dai , Huimin Lu

Semantic Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a critical area of research within robotics and computer vision, focusing on the simultaneous localization of robotic systems and associating semantic information to construct the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Thanh Nguyen Canh , Haolan Zhang , Xiem HoangVan , Nak Young Chong

Traditional attempts for loop closure detection typically use hand-crafted features, relying on geometric and visual information only, whereas more modern approaches tend to use semantic, appearance or geometric features extracted from deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Nathaniel Merrill , Guoquan Huang

Visual SLAM approaches typically depend on loop closure detection to correct the inconsistencies that may arise during the map and camera trajectory calculations, typically making use of point features for detecting and closing the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Joan P. Company-Corcoles , Emilio Garcia-Fidalgo , Alberto Ortiz

Most classical SLAM systems rely on the static scene assumption, which limits their applicability in real world scenarios. Recent SLAM frameworks have been proposed to simultaneously track the camera and moving objects. However they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Mathieu Gonzalez , Eric Marchand , Amine Kacete , Jérôme Royan

Loop Closure Detection (LCD) has been proved to be extremely useful in global consistent visual Simultaneously Localization and Mapping (SLAM) and appearance-based robot relocalization. Methods exploiting binary features in bag of words…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Lei Han , Lu Fang