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In recent years, coordinate-based neural implicit representations have shown promising results for the task of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). While achieving impressive performance on small synthetic scenes, these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Kunyi Li , Michael Niemeyer , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Real-time 3D reconstruction is crucial for robotics and augmented reality, yet current simultaneous localization and mapping(SLAM) approaches often struggle to maintain structural consistency and robust pose estimation in the presence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xu Wang , Boyao Han , Xiaojun Chen , Ying Liu , Ruihui Li

In this paper, we propose an novel implementation of a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system based on a monocular camera from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) using Depth prediction performed with Capsule Networks (CapsNet),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Sunil Prakash , Gaelan Gu

An effective 3D descriptor should be invariant to different geometric transformations, such as scale and rotation, robust to occlusions and clutter, and capable of generalising to different application domains. We present a simple yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Fabio Poiesi , Davide Boscaini

Point cloud is an important type of geometric data structure. Due to its irregular format, most researchers transform such data to regular 3D voxel grids or collections of images. This, however, renders data unnecessarily voluminous and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Charles R. Qi , Hao Su , Kaichun Mo , Leonidas J. Guibas

LiDAR scanning for surveying applications acquire measurements over wide areas and long distances, which produces large-scale 3D point clouds with significant local density variations. While existing 3D semantic segmentation models conduct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Ryan Faulkner , Luke Haub , Simon Ratcliffe , Ian Reid , Tat-Jun Chin

Visual understanding of 3D environments in real-time, at low power, is a huge computational challenge. Often referred to as SLAM (Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping), it is central to applications spanning domestic and industrial…

LiDAR sensors are a powerful tool for robot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in unknown environments, but the raw point clouds they produce are dense, computationally expensive to store, and unsuited for direct use by downstream…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Adam Dai , Greg Lund , Grace Gao

Ever more robust, accurate and detailed mapping using visual sensing has proven to be an enabling factor for mobile robots across a wide variety of applications. For the next level of robot intelligence and intuitive user interaction, maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-29 John McCormac , Ankur Handa , Andrew Davison , Stefan Leutenegger

As a fundamental yet challenging problem in intelligent transportation systems, point cloud registration attracts vast attention and has been attained with various deep learning-based algorithms. The unsupervised registration algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Dongrui Liu , Chuanchuan Chen , Changqing Xu , Robert Qiu , Lei Chu

We propose a new method for fine registering multiple point clouds simultaneously. The approach is characterized by being dense, therefore point clouds are not reduced to pre-selected features in advance. Furthermore, the approach is robust…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-18 David Skuddis , Norbert Haala

Existing point cloud modeling datasets primarily express the modeling precision by pose or trajectory precision rather than the point cloud modeling effect itself. Under this demand, we first independently construct a set of LiDAR system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Changjie Qiu , Zhiyong Wang , Xiuhong Lin , Yu Zang , Cheng Wang , Weiquan Liu

While the keypoint-based maps created by sparse monocular simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) systems are useful for camera tracking, dense 3D reconstructions may be desired for many robotic tasks. Solutions involving depth cameras…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Tristan Laidlow , Jan Czarnowski , Stefan Leutenegger

The process of segmenting point cloud data into several homogeneous areas with points in the same region having the same attributes is known as 3D segmentation. Segmentation is challenging with point cloud data due to substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Siddiqui Muhammad Yasir , Hyunsik Ahn

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

When performing localization and mapping, working at the level of structure can be advantageous in terms of robustness to environmental changes and differences in illumination. This paper presents SegMap: a map representation solution to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Renaud Dubé , Andrei Cramariuc , Daniel Dugas , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart , Cesar Cadena

The field of keypoint extraction, which is essential for vision applications like Structure from Motion (SfM) and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), has evolved from relying on handcrafted methods to leveraging deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Haodi Yao , Fenghua He , Ning Hao , Chen Xie

Deep learning based localization and mapping has recently attracted significant attention. Instead of creating hand-designed algorithms through exploitation of physical models or geometric theories, deep learning based solutions provide an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Changhao Chen , Bing Wang , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) have made the real-time dense reconstruction possible increasing the prospects of navigation, tracking, and augmented reality problems. Some breakthroughs have been achieved in this regard during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Redhwan Jamiruddin , Ali Osman Sari , Jahanzaib Shabbir , Tarique Anwer

Achieving monocular camera localization within pre-built LiDAR maps can bypass the simultaneous mapping process of visual SLAM systems, potentially reducing the computational overhead of autonomous localization. To this end, one of the key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Gongxin Yao , Xinyang Li , Luowei Fu , Yu Pan