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Efficient multi-agent 3D mapping is essential for robotic teams operating in unknown environments, but dense representations hinder real-time exchange over constrained communication links. In multi-agent Simultaneous Localization and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Monica M. Q. Li , Pierre-Yves Lajoie , Jialiang Liu , Giovanni Beltrame

Recent advances in Dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) have demonstrated remarkable performance in static environments. However, dense SLAM in dynamic environments remains challenging. Most methods directly remove dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Siting Zhu , Yuxiang Huang , Wenhua Wu , Chaokang Jiang , Yongbo Chen , I-Ming Chen , Hesheng Wang

Precise coordinated planning over a forward time window enables safe and highly efficient motion when many robots must work together in tight spaces, but this would normally require centralised control of all devices which is difficult to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Aalok Patwardhan , Riku Murai , Andrew J. Davison

In this paper, we propose a highly accurate continuous-time trajectory estimation framework dedicated to SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) applications, which enables fuse high-frequency and asynchronous sensor data effectively.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Jiajun Lv , Kewei Hu , Jinhong Xu , Yong Liu , Xiushui Ma , Xingxing Zuo

Motion reasoning serves as the cornerstone of multi-object tracking (MOT), as it enables consistent association of targets across frames. However, existing motion estimation approaches face two major limitations: (1) instability caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Zikai Song , Junqing Yu , Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen , Wei Yang , Xinchao Wang

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 this work, we propose a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system using a monocular camera and Ultra-wideband (UWB) sensors. Our system, referred to as VRSLAM, is a multi-stage framework that leverages the strengths and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Thien Hoang Nguyen , Shenghai Yuan , Lihua Xie

We propose a neurobiologically inspired visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system based on direction sparse method to real-time build cognitive maps of large-scale environments from a moving stereo camera. The core SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Taiping Zeng , Xiaoli Li , Bailu Si

Performing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in low-visibility conditions, such as environments filled with smoke, dust and transparent objets, has long been a challenging task. Sensors like cameras and Light Detection and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Fuhua Jia , Xiaoying Yang , Mengshen Yang , Yang Li , Hang Xu , Adam Rushworth , Salman Ijaz , Heng Yu , Tianxiang Cui

The concept of continuous-time trajectory representation has brought increased accuracy and efficiency to multi-modal sensor fusion in modern SLAM. However, regardless of these advantages, its offline property caused by the requirement of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Chanoh Park , Peyman Moghadam , Soohwan Kim , Alberto Elfes , Clinton Fookes , Sridha Sridharan

When an agent, person, vehicle or robot is moving through an unknown environment without GNSS signals, online mapping of nonlinear terrains can be used to improve position estimates when the agent returns to a previously mapped area.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Frida Marie Viset , Rudy Helmons , Manon Kok

Recently, map representations based on radiance fields such as 3D Gaussian Splatting and NeRF, which excellent for realistic depiction, have attracted considerable attention, leading to attempts to combine them with SLAM. While these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Gyuhyeon Pak , Euntai Kim

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

We propose NEDS-SLAM, a dense semantic SLAM system based on 3D Gaussian representation, that enables robust 3D semantic mapping, accurate camera tracking, and high-quality rendering in real-time. In the system, we propose a Spatially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yiming Ji , Yang Liu , Guanghu Xie , Boyu Ma , Zongwu Xie

NeRF-based SLAM has recently achieved promising results in tracking and reconstruction. However, existing methods face challenges in providing sufficient scene representation, capturing structural information, and maintaining global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Ziren Gong , Fabio Tosi , Youmin Zhang , Stefano Mattoccia , Matteo Poggi

Visual SLAM algorithms achieve significant improvements through the exploration of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) representations, particularly in generating high-fidelity dense maps. However, they depend on a static environment assumption…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yi Liu , Haoxuan Xu , Hongbo Duan , Keyu Fan , Zhengyang Zhang , Peiyu Zhuang , Pengting Luo , Houde Liu

SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) seeks to provide a moving agent with real-time self-localization. To achieve real-time speed, SLAM incrementally propagates position estimates. This makes SLAM fast but also makes it vulnerable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Huajian Huang , Wen-Yan Lin , Siying Liu , Dong Zhang , Sai-Kit Yeung

3D Gaussian Splatting has recently shown promising results as an alternative scene representation in SLAM systems to neural implicit representations. However, current methods either lack dense depth maps to supervise the mapping process or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 F. Aykut Sarikamis , A. Aydin Alatan

We present UbiSLAM, an innovative solution for real-time mapping and localization in dynamic indoor environments. By deploying a network of fixed RGB-D cameras strategically throughout the workspace, UbiSLAM addresses limitations commonly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Halim Djerroud , Nico Steyn , Olivier Rabreau , Patrick Bonnin , Abderraouf Benali

We introduce a multi-user VR co-location framework that synchronizes users within a shared virtual environment aligned to physical space. Our approach combines a motion capture system with SLAM-based inside-out tracking to deliver smooth,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Carlos A. Pinheiro de Sousa , Niklas Gröne , Mathias Günther , Oliver Deussen