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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,…

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This paper presents DINO-SLAM, a DINO-informed design strategy to enhance neural implicit (Neural Radiance Field -- NeRF) and explicit representations (3D Gaussian Splatting -- 3DGS) in SLAM systems through more comprehensive scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Ziren Gong , Xiaohan Li , Fabio Tosi , Youmin Zhang , Stefano Mattoccia , Jun Wu , Matteo Poggi

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

Dense simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is crucial for robotics and augmented reality applications. However, current methods are often hampered by the non-volumetric or implicit way they represent a scene. This work introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Nikhil Keetha , Jay Karhade , Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula , Gengshan Yang , Sebastian Scherer , Deva Ramanan , Jonathon Luiten

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

In addition to the core tasks of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), active SLAM additionally in- volves generating robot actions that enable effective and efficient exploration of unknown environments. However, existing active…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Xiangqi Meng , Pengxu Hou , Zhenjun Zhao , Javier Civera , Daniel Cremers , Hesheng Wang , Haoang Li

Environment perception is a crucial ability for robot's interaction into an environment. One of the first steps in this direction is the combined problem of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). A new method, called G-SLAM, is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Nikos Zikos , Vassilios Petridis

We present NeuSE, a novel Neural SE(3)-Equivariant Embedding for objects, and illustrate how it supports object SLAM for consistent spatial understanding with long-term scene changes. NeuSE is a set of latent object embeddings created from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Jiahui Fu , Yilun Du , Kurran Singh , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , John J. Leonard

The static world assumption is standard in most simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) algorithms. Increased deployment of autonomous systems to unstructured dynamic environments is driving a need to identify moving objects and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Mina Henein , Jun Zhang , Robert Mahony , Viorela Ila

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has gained significant attention for its application in dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), enabling real-time rendering and high-fidelity mapping. However, existing 3DGS-based SLAM methods often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Ziheng Xu , Qingfeng Li , Chen Chen , Xuefeng Liu , Jianwei Niu

Visual SLAM in dynamic environments remains challenging, as several existing methods rely on semantic filtering that only handles known object classes, or use fixed robust kernels that cannot adapt to unknown moving objects, leading to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-21 João Carlos Virgolino Soares , Gabriel Fischer Abati , Claudio Semini

The RGB-D camera maintains a limited range for working and is hard to accurately measure the depth information in a far distance. Besides, the RGB-D camera will easily be influenced by strong lighting and other external factors, which will…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Mingyang Geng , Suning Shang , Bo Ding , Huaimin Wang , Pengfei Zhang , Lei Zhang

The majority of visual SLAM systems are not robust in dynamic scenarios. The ones that deal with dynamic objects in the scenes usually rely on deep-learning-based methods to detect and filter these objects. However, these methods cannot…

We proposed an end-to-end deep learning-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system following conventional visual odometry (VO) pipelines. The proposed method completes the SLAM framework by including tracking, mapping, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Youngji Kim , Ayoung Kim

Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) is one of the fundamental problems in autonomous mobile robots where a robot needs to reconstruct a previously unseen environment while simultaneously localising itself with respect to the map.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Tin Lai

We present a collaborative visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) framework for service robots. With an edge server maintaining a map database and performing global optimization, each robot can register to an existing map,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Ming Ouyang , Xuesong Shi , Yujie Wang , Yuxin Tian , Yingzhe Shen , Dawei Wang , Peng Wang , Zhiqiang Cao

We present SplitFusion, a novel dense RGB-D SLAM framework that simultaneously performs tracking and dense reconstruction for both rigid and non-rigid components of the scene. SplitFusion first adopts deep learning based semantic instant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Yang Li , Tianwei Zhang , Yoshihiko Nakamura , Tatsuya Harada

In this paper, we consider the problems in the practical application of visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). With the popularization and application of the technology in wide scope, the practicability of SLAM system has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 BaoSheng Zhang

Enabling robots to understand the world in terms of objects is a critical building block towards higher level autonomy. The success of foundation models in vision has created the ability to segment and identify nearly all objects in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Kurran Singh , Tim Magoun , John J. Leonard

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is one of the most essential techniques in many real-world robotic applications. The assumption of static environments is common in most SLAM algorithms, which however, is not the case for most…

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