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Recent progress in feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has notably improved rendering quality. However, the spatially uniform and highly redundant 3DGS map generated by previous feed-forward 3DGS methods limits their integration into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zicheng Zhang , Xiangting Meng , Ke Wu , Wenchao Ding

Mobile robots and IoT devices demand real-time localization and dense reconstruction under tight compute and energy budgets. While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables efficient dense SLAM, dynamic objects and occlusions still degrade…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Li Zhang , Yu-An Liu , Xijia Jiang , Conghao Huang , Danyang Li , Yanyong Zhang

Map-centric SLAM utilizes elasticity as a means of loop closure. This approach reduces the cost of loop closure while still provides large-scale fusion-based dense maps, when compared to the trajectory-centric SLAM approaches. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Chanoh Park , Peyman Moghadam , Jason Williams , Soohwan Kim , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a foundational component in robotics, AR/VR, and autonomous systems. With the rising focus on spatial AI in recent years, combining SLAM with semantic understanding has become increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jisang Yoo , Gyeongjin Kang , Hyun-kyu Ko , Hyeonwoo Yu , Eunbyung Park

Transparent object manipulation remains a significant challenge in robotics due to the difficulty of acquiring accurate and dense depth measurements. Conventional depth sensors often fail with transparent objects, resulting in incomplete or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Jeongyun Kim , Jeongho Noh , Dong-Guw Lee , Ayoung Kim

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

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a process that enables the direct creation of 3D objects from 2D images. This representation offers numerous advantages, including rapid training and rendering. However, a significant limitation of 3DGS is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Krzysztof Byrski , Marcin Mazur , Jacek Tabor , Tadeusz Dziarmaga , Marcin Kądziołka , Dawid Baran , Przemysław Spurek

It is well known that visual SLAM systems based on dense matching are locally accurate but are also susceptible to long-term drift and map corruption. In contrast, feature matching methods can achieve greater long-term consistency but can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Xingrui Yang , Yuhang Ming , Zhaopeng Cui , Andrew Calway

Handling the dynamic environments is a significant research challenge in Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Recent research combines 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) with SLAM to achieve both robust camera pose estimation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yunsong Wang , Gim Hee Lee

Three-dimensional scene reconstruction from sparse-view satellite images is a long-standing and challenging task. While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and its variants have recently attracted attention for its high efficiency, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Xuejun Huang , Xinyi Liu , Yi Wan , Zhi Zheng , Bin Zhang , Mingtao Xiong , Yingying Pei , Yongjun Zhang

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a fundamental capability required by most autonomous systems. In this paper, we address the problem of loop closing for SLAM based on 3D laser scans recorded by autonomous cars. Our approach…

We present VIGS-SLAM, a visual-inertial 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM system that achieves robust real-time tracking and high-fidelity reconstruction. Although recent 3DGS-based SLAM methods achieve dense and photorealistic mapping, their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zihan Zhu , Wei Zhang , Moyang Li , Norbert Haala , Marc Pollefeys , Daniel Barath

LongSplat addresses critical challenges in novel view synthesis (NVS) from casually captured long videos characterized by irregular camera motion, unknown camera poses, and expansive scenes. Current methods often suffer from pose drift,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Chin-Yang Lin , Cheng Sun , Fu-En Yang , Min-Hung Chen , Yen-Yu Lin , Yu-Lun Liu

We present GSplatLoc, a camera localization method that leverages the differentiable rendering capabilities of 3D Gaussian splatting for ultra-precise pose estimation. By formulating pose estimation as a gradient-based optimization problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Atticus J. Zeller , Haijuan Wu

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) allows mobile robots to navigate without external positioning systems or pre-existing maps. Radar is emerging as a valuable sensing tool, especially in vision-obstructed environments, as it is…

The efficient spatial allocation of primitives serves as the foundation of 3D Gaussian Splatting, as it directly dictates the synergy between representation compactness, reconstruction speed, and rendering fidelity. Previous solutions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Roni Itkin , Noam Issachar , Yehonatan Keypur , Xingyu Chen , Anpei Chen , Sagie Benaim

Recent advancements in RGB-only dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) have predominantly utilized grid-based neural implicit encodings and/or struggle to efficiently realize global map and pose consistency. To this end, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Ganlin Zhang , Erik Sandström , Youmin Zhang , Manthan Patel , Luc Van Gool , Martin R. Oswald

We present Rad-GS, a 4D radar-camera SLAM system designed for kilometer-scale outdoor environments, utilizing 3D Gaussian as a differentiable spatial representation. Rad-GS combines the advantages of raw radar point cloud with Doppler…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Renxiang Xiao , Wei Liu , Yuanfan Zhang , Yushuai Chen , Jinming Chen , Zilu Wang , Liang Hu

We present SGS-SLAM, the first semantic visual SLAM system based on Gaussian Splatting. It incorporates appearance, geometry, and semantic features through multi-channel optimization, addressing the oversmoothing limitations of neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Mingrui Li , Shuhong Liu , Heng Zhou , Guohao Zhu , Na Cheng , Tianchen Deng , Hongyu Wang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently unlocked real-time, high-fidelity novel view synthesis by representing scenes using explicit 3D primitives. However, traditional methods often require millions of Gaussians to capture complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Anh Thuan Tran , Jana Kosecka