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Recent advances in neural radiation fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian-based SLAM have achieved impressive localization accuracy and high-quality dense mapping in static scenes. However, these methods remain challenged in dynamic environments,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Wenhua Wu , Chenpeng Su , Siting Zhu , Tianchen Deng , Jianhao Jiao , Guangming Wang , Dimitrios Kanoulas , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

Various datasets have been proposed for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and related problems. Existing datasets often include small environments, have incomplete ground truth, or lack important sensor data, such as depth and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Janne Mustaniemi , Juho Kannala , Esa Rahtu , Li Liu , Janne Heikkilä

The recently developed Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have shown encouraging and impressive results for visual SLAM. However, most representative methods require RGBD sensors and are only available for indoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Zhe Xin , Chenyang Wu , Penghui Huang , Yanyong Zhang , Yinian Mao , Guoquan Huang

Visual degradation caused by limited visibility, insufficient lighting, and feature scarcity in underwater environments presents significant challenges to visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems. To address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Shuoshuo Ding , Tiedong Zhang , Dapeng Jiang , Ming Lei

Existing underwater SLAM systems are difficult to work effectively in texture-sparse and geometrically degraded underwater environments, resulting in intermittent tracking and sparse mapping. Therefore, we present Water-DSLAM, a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yaming Ou , Junfeng Fan , Chao Zhou , Pengju Zhang , Zongyuan Shen , Yichen Fu , Xiaoyan Liu , Zengguang Hou

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

In this paper, a novel solution is introduced for visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (vSLAM) that is built up of Deep Learning components. The proposed architecture is a highly modular framework in which each component offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Mátyás Szántó , György R. Bogár , László Vajta

We present a robust, real-time RGB SLAM system that handles dynamic environments by leveraging differentiable Uncertainty-aware Bundle Adjustment. Traditional SLAM methods typically assume static scenes, leading to tracking failures in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Moyang Li , Zihan Zhu , Marc Pollefeys , Daniel Barath

Datasets have gained an enormous amount of popularity in the computer vision community, from training and evaluation of Deep Learning-based methods to benchmarking Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Without a doubt, synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Wenbin Li , Sajad Saeedi , John McCormac , Ronald Clark , Dimos Tzoumanikas , Qing Ye , Yuzhong Huang , Rui Tang , Stefan Leutenegger

3D Gaussian Splatting has emerged as a promising technique for high-quality 3D rendering, leading to increasing interest in integrating 3DGS into realism SLAM systems. However, existing methods face challenges such as Gaussian primitives…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Lizhi Bai , Chunqi Tian , Jun Yang , Siyu Zhang , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

Research in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has made outstanding progress over the past years. SLAM systems are nowadays transitioning from academic to real world applications. However, this transition has posed new demanding…

Neural implicit representations have recently become popular in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), especially in dense visual SLAM. However, previous works in this direction either rely on RGB-D sensors, or require a separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Zihan Zhu , Songyou Peng , Viktor Larsson , Zhaopeng Cui , Martin R. Oswald , Andreas Geiger , Marc Pollefeys

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

The reliability of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is severely constrained in environments where visual inputs suffer from noise and low illumination. Although recent 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) based SLAM frameworks achieve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Huilin Yin , Zhaolin Yang , Linchuan Zhang , Gerhard Rigoll , Johannes Betz

In this paper, we propose a tightly-coupled SLAM system fused with RGB, Depth, IMU and structured plane information. Traditional sparse points based SLAM systems always maintain a mass of map points to model the environment. Huge number of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Danpeng Chen , Shuai Wang , Weijian Xie , Shangjin Zhai , Nan Wang , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang

This paper presents a novel dataset for the development of visual navigation and simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) algorithms as well as for underwater intervention tasks. It differs from existing datasets as it contains ground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Tomasz Luczynski , Jonatan Scharff Willners , Elizabeth Vargas , Joshua Roe , Shida Xu , Yu Cao , Yvan Petillot , Sen Wang

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 introduce DROID-SLAM, a new deep learning based SLAM system. DROID-SLAM consists of recurrent iterative updates of camera pose and pixelwise depth through a Dense Bundle Adjustment layer. DROID-SLAM is accurate, achieving large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Zachary Teed , Jia Deng

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technology has been widely applied in various robotic scenarios, from rescue operations to autonomous driving. However, the generalization of SLAM algorithms remains a significant challenge, as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Hexiang Wei , Jianhao Jiao , Xiangcheng Hu , Jingwen Yu , Xupeng Xie , Jin Wu , Yilong Zhu , Yuxuan Liu , Lujia Wang , Ming Liu

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