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In this paper, we present RKD-SLAM, a robust keyframe-based dense SLAM approach for an RGB-D camera that can robustly handle fast motion and dense loop closure, and run without time limitation in a moderate size scene. It not only can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Haomin Liu , Chen Li , Guojun Chen , Guofeng Zhang , Michael Kaess , Hujun Bao

A robust and efficient Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system is essential for robot autonomy. For visual SLAM algorithms, though the theoretical framework has been well established for most aspects, feature extraction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Dongjiang Li , Xuesong Shi , Qiwei Long , Shenghui Liu , Wei Yang , Fangshi Wang , Qi Wei , Fei Qiao

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently gained popularity in SLAM applications due to its fast rendering and high-fidelity representation. However, existing 3DGS-SLAM systems have predominantly focused on indoor environments and relied on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Xiaohan Li , Ziren Gong , Fabio Tosi , Matteo Poggi , Stefano Mattoccia , Dong Liu , Jun Wu

We present Co-SLAM, a neural RGB-D SLAM system based on a hybrid representation, that performs robust camera tracking and high-fidelity surface reconstruction in real time. Co-SLAM represents the scene as a multi-resolution hash-grid to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Hengyi Wang , Jingwen Wang , Lourdes Agapito

Conventional geometry-based SLAM systems lack dense 3D reconstruction capabilities since their data association usually relies on feature correspondences. Additionally, learning-based SLAM systems often fall short in terms of real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Zhongche Qu , Zhi Zhang , Cong Liu , Jianhua Yin

Existing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms are not robust in challenging low-texture environments because there are only few salient features. The resulting sparse or semi-dense map also conveys little information for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Shichao Yang , Yu Song , Michael Kaess , Sebastian Scherer

We consider the problem of dense depth prediction from a sparse set of depth measurements and a single RGB image. Since depth estimation from monocular images alone is inherently ambiguous and unreliable, to attain a higher level of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Fangchang Ma , Sertac Karaman

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

Endoscopic surgery relies on two-dimensional views, posing challenges for surgeons in depth perception and instrument manipulation. While Monocular Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (MVSLAM) has emerged as a promising solution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 G. Manni , C. Lauretti , F. Prata , R. Papalia , L. Zollo , P. Soda

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

In this paper, we propose a dense monocular SLAM system, named DeepRelativeFusion, that is capable to recover a globally consistent 3D structure. To this end, we use a visual SLAM algorithm to reliably recover the camera poses and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Shing Yan Loo , Syamsiah Mashohor , Sai Hong Tang , Hong Zhang

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

Automatic magnetic resonance (MR) image processing pipelines are widely used to study people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS), encompassing tasks such as lesion segmentation and brain parcellation. However, the presence of lesion often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Jinwei Zhang , Lianrui Zuo , Yihao Liu , Samuel Remedios , Bennett A. Landman , Jerry L. Prince , Aaron Carass

This paper presents a collaborative implicit neural simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system with RGB-D image sequences, which consists of complete front-end and back-end modules including odometry, loop detection, sub-map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Jiarui Hu , Mao Mao , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui

We present ESLAM, an efficient implicit neural representation method for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). ESLAM reads RGB-D frames with unknown camera poses in a sequential manner and incrementally reconstructs the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Mohammad Mahdi Johari , Camilla Carta , François Fleuret

Monocular Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) aims to estimate a robot's pose while simultaneously reconstructing an unknown 3D scene using a single camera. While existing monocular SLAM systems generate detailed 3D geometry…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yuchen Zhou , Haihang Wu

Event cameras offer a promising avenue for multi-view stereo depth estimation and Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) due to their ability to detect blur-free 3D edges at high-speed and over broad illumination conditions. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Diego Hitzges , Suman Ghosh , Guillermo Gallego

In this article, we develop an algorithm for probabilistic and constrained projection pursuit. Our algorithm called ADIS (automated decomposition into sources) accepts arbitrary non-linear contrast functions and constraints from the user…

Computation · Statistics 2009-03-02 Gautam Pendse , David Borsook , Lino Becerra

The availability of real-time semantics greatly improves the core geometric functionality of SLAM systems, enabling numerous robotic and AR/VR applications. We present a new methodology for real-time semantic mapping from RGB-D sequences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jingwen Wang , Juan Tarrio , Lourdes Agapito , Pablo F. Alcantarilla , Alexander Vakhitov

Current Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) methods based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) or 3D Gaussian Splatting excel in reconstructing static 3D scenes but struggle with tracking and reconstruction in dynamic environments,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Mingrui Li , Yiming Zhou , Hongxing Zhou , Xinggang Hu , Florian Roemer , Hongyu Wang , Ahmad Osman