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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

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

Consistent maps are key for most autonomous mobile robots, and they often use SLAM approaches to build such maps. Loop closures via place recognition help to maintain accurate pose estimates by mitigating global drift, and are thus key for…

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems can largely benefit from 3DGS's state-of-the-art rendering efficiency and accuracy, but have not yet been adopted in resource-constrained edge devices…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Leshu Li , Jiayin Qin , Jie Peng , Zishen Wan , Huaizhi Qu , Ye Han , Pingqing Zheng , Hongsen Zhang , Yu Cao , Tianlong Chen , Yang Katie Zhao

The emergence of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently ignited a renewed wave of research in dense visual SLAM. However, existing approaches encounter challenges, including sensitivity to artifacts and noise, suboptimal selection of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Wancai Zheng , Xinyi Yu , Jintao Rong , Linlin Ou , Yan Wei , Libo Zhou

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

This survey comprehensively reviews the evolving field of multi-robot collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). As an explicit scene representation, 3DGS has enabled unprecedented…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Phuc Nguyen Xuan , Thanh Nguyen Canh , Huu-Hung Nguyen , Nak Young Chong , Xiem HoangVan

Neural field-based SLAM methods typically employ a single, monolithic field as their scene representation. This prevents efficient incorporation of loop closure constraints and limits scalability. To address these shortcomings, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Leonard Bruns , Jun Zhang , Patric Jensfelt

We present a novel Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) method that employs Gaussian Process (GP) based landmark (object) representations. Instead of conventional grid maps or point cloud registration, we model the environment on a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Ali Emre Balcı , Erhan Ege Keyvan , Emre Özkan

Visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems face challenges in detecting loop closure under the circumstance of large viewpoint changes. In this paper, we present an object-based loop closure detection method based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Xingwu Ji , Peilin Liu , Haochen Niu , Xiang Chen , Rendong Ying , Fei Wen

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a powerful representation of geometry and appearance for dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Through rapid, differentiable rasterization of 3D Gaussians, many 3DGS SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xulang Liu , Ning Tan

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

3D Gaussian Splatting is a powerful visual representation, providing high-quality and efficient 3D scene reconstruction, but it is crucially dependent on accurate camera poses typically obtained from computationally intensive processes like…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Daniel Yang , Jungseok Hong , John J. Leonard , Yogesh Girdhar

We introduce ConfidentSplat, a novel 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)-based SLAM system for robust, highfidelity RGB-only reconstruction. Addressing geometric inaccuracies in existing RGB-only 3DGS SLAM methods that stem from unreliable depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Amanuel T. Dufera , Yuan-Li Cai

With their high-fidelity scene representation capability, the attention of SLAM field is deeply attracted by the Neural Radiation Field (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Recently, there has been a surge in NeRF-based SLAM, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Xinli Guo , Weidong Zhang , Ruonan Liu , Peng Han , Hongtian Chen

Recent 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) techniques for Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) have significantly progressed in tracking and high-fidelity mapping. However, their sequential optimization framework and sensitivity to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Wancai Zheng , Linlin Ou , Jiajie He , Libo Zhou , Xinyi Yu , Yan Wei

Gaussian Splatting SLAM (GS-SLAM) offers a notable improvement over traditional SLAM methods, enabling photorealistic 3D reconstruction that conventional approaches often struggle to achieve. However, existing GS-SLAM systems perform poorly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Siyu Chen , Shenghai Yuan , Thien-Minh Nguyen , Zhuyu Huang , Chenyang Shi , Jin Jing , Lihua Xie

Recently neural radiance fields (NeRF) have been widely exploited as 3D representations for dense simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Despite their notable successes in surface modeling and novel view synthesis, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jiarui Hu , Xianhao Chen , Boyin Feng , Guanglin Li , Liangjing Yang , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui

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

We present a simple yet effective method to address loop closure detection in simultaneous localisation and mapping using local 3D deep descriptors (L3Ds). L3Ds are emerging compact representations of patches extracted from point clouds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Youjie Zhou , Yiming Wang , Fabio Poiesi , Qi Qin , Yi Wan