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Limbed climbing robots are designed to explore challenging vertical walls, such as the skylights of the Moon and Mars. In such robots, the primary role of a hand-eye camera is to accurately estimate 3D positions of graspable points (i.e.,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Taku Okawara , Ryo Nishibe , Mao Kasano , Kentaro Uno , Kazuya Yoshida

3D Gaussian Splatting has recently shown promising results in dense visual SLAM. However, existing 3DGS-based SLAM methods are all constrained to small-room scenarios and struggle with memory explosion in large-scale scenes and long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Tianchen Deng , Wenhua Wu , Junjie He , Yue Pan , Shenghai Yuan , Danwei Wang , Hesheng Wang

We propose a dense RGBD SLAM system based on 3D Gaussian Splatting that provides metrically accurate pose tracking and visually realistic reconstruction. To this end, we first propose a Gaussian densification strategy based on the rendering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Shuo Sun , Malcolm Mielle , Achim J. Lilienthal , Martin Magnusson

Object-level SLAM offers structured and semantically meaningful environment representations, making it more interpretable and suitable for high-level robotic tasks. However, most existing approaches rely on RGB-D sensors or monocular views,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Miaoxin Pan , Jinnan Li , Yaowen Zhang , Yi Yang , Yufeng Yue

Achieving robust and precise pose estimation in dynamic scenes is a significant research challenge in Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Recent advancements integrating Gaussian Splatting into SLAM systems have proven…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Yueming Xu , Haochen Jiang , Zhongyang Xiao , Jianfeng Feng , Li Zhang

Neural implicit representations have recently become popular in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), especially in dense visual SLAM. However, previous works in this direction either rely on RGB-D sensors, or require a separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Zihan Zhu , Songyou Peng , Viktor Larsson , Zhaopeng Cui , Martin R. Oswald , Andreas Geiger , Marc Pollefeys

Recent advancements in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) have increasingly highlighted the robustness of LiDAR-based techniques. At the same time, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have introduced new possibilities for 3D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Qi Zhang , He Wang , Ru Li , Wenbin Li

We address the challenging problem of dense dynamic scene reconstruction and camera pose estimation from multiple freely moving cameras -- a setting that arises naturally when multiple observers capture a shared event. Prior approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shuo Sun , Unal Artan , Malcolm Mielle , Achim J. Lilienthaland , Martin Magnusson

We introduce a high-fidelity neural implicit dense visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system, termed DF-SLAM. In our work, we employ dictionary factors for scene representation, encoding the geometry and appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Weifeng Wei , Jie Wang , Shuqi Deng , Jie Liu

We propose SemGauss-SLAM, a dense semantic SLAM system utilizing 3D Gaussian representation, that enables accurate 3D semantic mapping, robust camera tracking, and high-quality rendering simultaneously. In this system, we incorporate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Siting Zhu , Renjie Qin , Guangming Wang , Jiuming Liu , Hesheng Wang

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

Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is a fundamental problem in mobile robotics. While sparse point-based SLAM methods provide accurate camera localization, the generated maps lack semantic information. On the other hand, state of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh , Kejie Li , Yasir Latif , Ian Reid

A spatial AI that can perform complex tasks through visual signals and cooperate with humans is highly anticipated. To achieve this, we need a visual SLAM that easily adapts to new scenes without pre-training and generates dense maps for…

A major limitation of minimally invasive surgery is the difficulty in accurately locating the internal anatomical structures of the target organ due to the lack of tactile feedback and transparency. Augmented reality (AR) offers a promising…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Jingwei Song , Ray Zhang , Wenwei Zhang , Hao Zhou , Maani Ghaffari

3D Gaussian splatting has emerged as an expressive scene representation for RGB-D visual SLAM, but its application to large-scale, multi-agent outdoor environments remains unexplored. Multi-agent Gaussian SLAM is a promising approach to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Annika Thomas , Aneesa Sonawalla , Alex Rose , Jonathan P. How

While dense visual SLAM methods are capable of estimating dense reconstructions of the environment, they suffer from a lack of robustness in their tracking step, especially when the optimisation is poorly initialised. Sparse visual SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Tristan Laidlow , Michael Bloesch , Wenbin Li , Stefan Leutenegger

In this paper a low-drift monocular SLAM method is proposed targeting indoor scenarios, where monocular SLAM often fails due to the lack of textured surfaces. Our approach decouples rotation and translation estimation of the tracking…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Yanyan Li , Nikolas Brasch , Yida Wang , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

We introduce NeuV-SLAM, a novel dense simultaneous localization and mapping pipeline based on neural multiresolution voxels, characterized by ultra-fast convergence and incremental expansion capabilities. This pipeline utilizes RGBD images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Wenzhi Guo , Bing Wang , Lijun Chen

The performance of visual SLAM in complex, real-world scenarios is often compromised by unreliable feature extraction and matching when using handcrafted features. Although deep learning-based local features excel at capturing high-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Hao Qu , Lilian Zhang , Jun Mao , Junbo Tie , Xiaofeng He , Xiaoping Hu , Yifei Shi , Changhao Chen

We aim to track the endoscope location inside the surgical scene and provide 3D reconstruction, in real-time, from the sole input of the image sequence captured by the monocular endoscope. This information offers new possibilities for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Nader Mahmoud , Iñigo Cirauqui , Alexandre Hostettler , Christophe Doignon , Luc Soler , Jacques Marescaux , J. M. M. Montiel