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The ability to extend the field of view of laparoscopy images can help the surgeons to obtain a better understanding of the anatomical context. However, due to tissue deformation, complex camera motion and significant three-dimensional (3D)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Haoyin Zhou , Jagadeesan Jayender

Incrementally recovering real-sized 3D geometry from a pose-free RGB stream is a challenging task in 3D reconstruction, requiring minimal assumptions on input data. Existing methods can be broadly categorized into end-to-end and visual…

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Jointly estimating camera poses and mapping scenes from RGBD images is a fundamental task in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). State-of-the-art methods employ 3D Gaussians to represent a scene, and render these Gaussians through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Pengchong Hu , Zhizhong Han

3D Gaussian splatting (3D-GS) has recently revolutionized novel view synthesis in the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. However, most existing algorithms fail to fully capture the underlying structure, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Tianci Wen , Zhiang Liu , Yongchun Fang

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

Real-time simultaneously localization and dense mapping is very helpful for providing Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality for surgeons or even surgical robots. In this paper, we propose MIS-SLAM: a complete real-time large scale dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Jingwei Song , Jun Wang , Liang Zhao , Shoudong Huang , Gamini Dissanayake

Conventional SLAM techniques strongly rely on scene rigidity to solve data association, ignoring dynamic parts of the scene. In this work we present Semi-Direct DefSLAM (SD-DefSLAM), a novel monocular deformable SLAM method able to map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Juan J. Gómez Rodríguez , José Lamarca , Javier Morlana , Juan D. Tardós , José M. M. Montiel

Surgical reconstruction of dynamic tissues from endoscopic videos is a crucial technology in robot-assisted surgery. The development of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) has greatly advanced deformable tissue reconstruction, achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Wenfeng Huang , Xiangyun Liao , Yinling Qian , Hao Liu , Yongming Yang , Wenjing Jia , Qiong Wang

Visual SLAM algorithms have been enhanced through the exploration of Gaussian Splatting representations, particularly in generating high-fidelity dense maps. While existing methods perform reliably in static environments, they often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yi Liu , Keyu Fan , Bin Lan , Houde Liu

Real-time reconstruction of deformable surgical scenes is vital for advancing robotic surgery, improving surgeon guidance, and enabling automation. Recent methods achieve dense reconstructions from da Vinci robotic surgery videos, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Tianyi Song , Danail Stoyanov , Evangelos Mazomenos , Francisco Vasconcelos

Traditional Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems often face limitations including coarse rendering quality, insufficient recovery of scene details, and poor robustness in dynamic environments. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Li Wang , Ruixuan Gong , Yumo Han , Lei Yang , Lu Yang , Ying Li , Bin Xu , Huaping Liu , Rong Fu

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

The recently developed Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have shown encouraging and impressive results for visual SLAM. However, most representative methods require RGBD sensors and are only available for indoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Zhe Xin , Chenyang Wu , Penghui Huang , Yanyong Zhang , Yinian Mao , Guoquan Huang

Gaussian splatting has recently gained traction as a compelling map representation for SLAM systems, enabling dense and photo-realistic scene modeling. However, its application to monocular SLAM remains challenging due to the lack of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Dong-Uk Seo , Jinwoo Jeon , Eungchang Mason Lee , Hyun Myung

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

Emerging 3D scene representations, such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), have demonstrated their effectiveness in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) for photo-realistic rendering, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Peng Wang , Lingzhe Zhao , Yin Zhang , Shiyu Zhao , Peidong Liu

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has been crucial across various domains, including autonomous driving, mobile robotics, and mixed reality. Dense visual SLAM, leveraging RGB-D camera systems, offers advantages but faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Hongbeen Park , Minjeong Park , Giljoo Nam , Jinkyu Kim

Neural implicit representations have recently shown promising progress in dense Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM). However, existing works have shortcomings in terms of reconstruction quality and real-time performance, mainly due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zhen Hong , Bowen Wang , Haoran Duan , Yawen Huang , Xiong Li , Zhenyu Wen , Xiang Wu , Wei Xiang , Yefeng Zheng

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems to build photorealistic maps. However, these maps lack the open-vocabulary semantic understanding required for advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Sibaek Lee , Seongbo Ha , Kyeongsu Kang , Joonyeol Choi , Seungjun Tak , Hyeonwoo Yu

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a critical task that enables autonomous vehicles to construct maps and localize themselves in unknown environments. Recent breakthroughs combine SLAM with 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Houshu He , Naifeng Jing , Li Jiang , Xiaoyao Liang , Zhuoran Song