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Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system typically employ vision-based sensors to observe the surrounding environment. However, the performance of such systems highly depends on the ambient illumination conditions. In scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Muhamad Risqi U. Saputra , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Pedro P. B. de Gusmao , Bing Wang , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

With the rise of deep learning, there is a fundamental change in visual SLAM algorithms toward developing different modules trained as end-to-end pipelines. However, regardless of the implementation domain, visual SLAM's performance is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Olaya Alvarez-Tunon , Yury Brodskiy , Erdal Kayacan

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) plays an important role in many robotics fields, including social robots. Many of the available visual SLAM methods are based on the assumption of a static world and struggle in dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Mobin Habibpour , Alireza Nemati , Ali Meghdari , Alireza Taheri , Shima Nazari

Robots operating in the open world encounter various different environments that can substantially differ from each other. This domain gap also poses a challenge for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) being one of the fundamental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Niclas Vödisch , Daniele Cattaneo , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

Place recognition is the fundamental module that can assist Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) in loop-closure detection and re-localization for long-term navigation. The place recognition community has made astonishing progress…

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…

The existence of variable factors within the environment can cause a decline in camera localization accuracy, as it violates the fundamental assumption of a static environment in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Ghanta Sai Krishna , Kundrapu Supriya , Sabur Baidya

Simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) is the problem of autonomous robots to construct or update a map of an undetermined unstructured environment while simultaneously estimate the pose in it. The current trend towards self-driving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-14 B. Udugama

The real-world deployment of fully autonomous mobile robots depends on a robust SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) system, capable of handling dynamic environments, where objects are moving in front of the robot, and changing…

In this work, we explore the use of objects in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in unseen worlds and propose an object-aided system (OA-SLAM). More precisely, we show that, compared to low-level points, the major benefit of objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Matthieu Zins , Gilles Simon , Marie-Odile Berger

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) plays a vital role in real-time localization for autonomous systems. However, traditional SLAM methods, which assume a static environment, often suffer from significant localization drift…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Haolan Zhang , Thanh Nguyen Canh , Chenghao Li , Nak Young Chong

This paper explores how deep learning techniques can improve visual-based SLAM performance in challenging environments. By combining deep feature extraction and deep matching methods, we introduce a versatile hybrid visual SLAM system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Zhang Xiao , Shuaixin Li

As a fundamental task for intelligent robots, visual SLAM has made great progress over the past decades. However, robust SLAM under highly weak-textured environments still remains very challenging. In this paper, we propose a novel visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Qihao Peng , Zhiyu Xiang , YuanGang Fan , Tengqi Zhao , Xijun Zhao

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

Image based reconstruction of urban environments is a challenging problem that deals with optimization of large number of variables, and has several sources of errors like the presence of dynamic objects. Since most large scale approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-29 N. Dinesh Reddy , Prateek Singhal , Visesh Chari , K. Madhava Krishna

Successful visual navigation depends upon capturing images that contain sufficient useful information. In this letter, we explore a data-driven approach to account for environmental lighting changes, improving the quality of images for use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Justin Tomasi , Brandon Wagstaff , Steven L. Waslander , Jonathan Kelly

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems are an essential component in agricultural robotics that enable autonomous navigation and the construction of accurate 3D maps of agricultural fields. However, lack of texture,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Mohamad Qadri , George Kantor

For VSLAM (Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), localization is a challenging task, especially for some challenging situations: textureless frames, motion blur, etc.. To build a robust exploration and localization system in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Weinan Chen , Lei Zhu , Yisheng Guan , C. Ronald Kube , Hong Zhang

Simultaneous mapping and localization (SLAM) in an real indoor environment is still a challenging task. Traditional SLAM approaches rely heavily on low-level geometric constraints like corners or lines, which may lead to tracking failure in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Xueyang Kang , Shunying Yuan

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