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A robust visual localization and mapping system is essential for warehouse robot navigation, as cameras offer a more cost-effective alternative to LiDAR sensors. However, existing forward-facing camera systems often encounter challenges in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Kuan Xu , Zheng Yang , Lihua Xie , Chen Wang

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

Many applications of Visual SLAM, such as augmented reality, virtual reality, robotics or autonomous driving, require versatile, robust and precise solutions, most often with real-time capability. In this work, we describe OV$^{2}$SLAM, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Maxime Ferrera , Alexandre Eudes , Julien Moras , Martial Sanfourche , Guy Le Besnerais

We present a method for single image 3D cuboid object detection and multi-view object SLAM in both static and dynamic environments, and demonstrate that the two parts can improve each other. Firstly for single image object detection, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Shichao Yang , Sebastian Scherer

Localizing oneself during endoscopic procedures can be problematic due to the lack of distinguishable textures and landmarks, as well as difficulties due to the endoscopic device such as a limited field of view and challenging lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Gary Sarwin , Alessandro Carretta , Victor Staartjes , Matteo Zoli , Diego Mazzatenta , Luca Regli , Carlo Serra , Ender Konukoglu

Endoluminal surgery offers a minimally invasive option for early-stage gastrointestinal and urinary tract cancers but is limited by surgical tools and a steep learning curve. Robotic systems, particularly continuum robots, provide flexible…

This paper presents a novel visual-LiDAR odometry and mapping method with low-drift characteristics. The proposed method is based on two popular approaches, ORB-SLAM and A-LOAM, with monocular scale correction and visual-bootstrapped LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Hanyu Cai , Ni Ou , Junzheng Wang

In this letter, we present a neural field-based real-time monocular mapping framework for accurate and dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Recent neural mapping frameworks show promising results, but rely on RGB-D or pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Wei Zhang , Tiecheng Sun , Sen Wang , Qing Cheng , Norbert Haala

In this paper, we present an omnidirectional localization and dense mapping system for a wide-baseline multiview stereo setup with ultra-wide field-of-view (FOV) fisheye cameras, which has a 360 degrees coverage of stereo observations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Changhee Won , Hochang Seok , Zhaopeng Cui , Marc Pollefeys , Jongwoo Lim

The ability to estimate rich geometry and camera motion from monocular imagery is fundamental to future interactive robotics and augmented reality applications. Different approaches have been proposed that vary in scene geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Jan Czarnowski , Tristan Laidlow , Ronald Clark , Andrew J. Davison

Monocular SLAM refers to using a single camera to estimate robot ego motion while building a map of the environment. While Monocular SLAM is a well studied problem, automating Monocular SLAM by integrating it with trajectory planning…

Monocular SLAM refers to using a single camera to estimate robot ego motion while building a map of the environment. While Monocular SLAM is a well studied problem, automating Monocular SLAM by integrating it with trajectory planning…

We present ViSTA-SLAM as a real-time monocular visual SLAM system that operates without requiring camera intrinsics, making it broadly applicable across diverse camera setups. At its core, the system employs a lightweight symmetric two-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Ganlin Zhang , Shenhan Qian , Xi Wang , Daniel Cremers

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…

Ingestible wireless capsule endoscopy is an emerging minimally invasive diagnostic technology for inspection of the GI tract and diagnosis of a wide range of diseases and pathologies. Medical device companies and many research groups have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Mehmet Turan , Yasin Almalioglu , Helder Araujo , Ender Konukoglu , Metin Sitti

3D reconstruction of endoscopic surgery scenes plays a vital role in enhancing scene perception, enabling AR visualization, and supporting context-aware decision-making in image-guided surgery. A critical yet challenging step in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Changhao Zhang , Matthew J. Clarkson , Mobarak I. Hoque

While traditional computer vision models have historically struggled to generalize to endoscopic domains, the emergence of foundation models has shown promising cross-domain performance. In this work, we present the first large-scale study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Leon Mayer , Tim Rädsch , Dominik Michael , Lucas Luttner , Amine Yamlahi , Evangelia Christodoulou , Patrick Godau , Marcel Knopp , Annika Reinke , Fiona Kolbinger , Lena Maier-Hein

Classical monocular Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) and the recently emerging convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for monocular depth prediction represent two largely disjoint approaches towards building a 3D map of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Lokender Tiwari , Pan Ji , Quoc-Huy Tran , Bingbing Zhuang , Saket Anand , Manmohan Chandraker

Unsupervised Learning based monocular visual odometry (VO) has lately drawn significant attention for its potential in label-free leaning ability and robustness to camera parameters and environmental variations. However, partially due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Yang Li , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada

Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) has become a crucial aspect in the fields of autonomous driving and robotics. One crucial component of visual SLAM is the Field-of-View (FoV) of the camera, as a larger FoV allows for a wider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Ze Wang , Kailun Yang , Hao Shi , Peng Li , Fei Gao , Jian Bai , Kaiwei Wang