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3D Gaussian Splatting has recently shown promising results in dense visual SLAM. However, existing 3DGS-based SLAM methods are all constrained to small-room scenarios and struggle with memory explosion in large-scale scenes and long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Tianchen Deng , Wenhua Wu , Junjie He , Yue Pan , Shenghai Yuan , Danwei Wang , Hesheng Wang

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 have proposed, to the best of our knowledge, the first-of-its-kind LiDAR-Inertial-Visual-Fused simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system with a strong place recognition capacity. Our proposed SLAM system is consist of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Kangcheng Liu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) allows flexible adjustments to scene representation, enabling continuous optimization of scene quality during dense visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in static environments. However, 3DGS faces…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Long Wen , Shixin Li , Yu Zhang , Yuhong Huang , Jianjie Lin , Fengjunjie Pan , Zhenshan Bing , Alois Knoll

3D Gaussian Splatting has recently emerged as an efficient solution for high-quality and real-time novel view synthesis. However, its capability for accurate surface reconstruction remains underexplored. Due to the discrete and unstructured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Qing Li , Huifang Feng , Xun Gong , Yu-Shen Liu

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) with dense representation plays a key role in robotics, Virtual Reality (VR), and Augmented Reality (AR) applications. Recent advancements in dense representation SLAM have highlighted the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Seongbo Ha , Jiung Yeon , Hyeonwoo Yu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has made remarkable progress in RGBD SLAM. Current methods usually use 3D Gaussians or view-tied 3D Gaussians to represent radiance fields in tracking and mapping. However, these Gaussians are either too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Pengchong Hu , Zhizhong Han

While dense visual SLAM methods are capable of estimating dense reconstructions of the environment, they suffer from a lack of robustness in their tracking step, especially when the optimisation is poorly initialised. Sparse visual SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Tristan Laidlow , Michael Bloesch , Wenbin Li , Stefan Leutenegger

Jointly estimating camera poses and mapping scenes from RGBD images is a fundamental task in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). State-of-the-art methods employ 3D Gaussians to represent a scene, and render these Gaussians through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Pengchong Hu , Zhizhong Han

Accurate geometric surface reconstruction, providing essential environmental information for navigation and manipulation tasks, is critical for enabling robotic self-exploration and interaction. Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Tengfei Wang , Xin Wang , Yongmao Hou , Zhaoning Zhang , Yiwei Xu , Zongqian Zhan

Sparse-view synthesis remains a challenging problem due to the difficulty of recovering accurate geometry and appearance from limited observations. While recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled real-time rendering with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yi-Hsin Li , Thomas Sikora , Sebastian Knorr , Mårten Sjöström

We present the first application of 3D Gaussian Splatting in monocular SLAM, the most fundamental but the hardest setup for Visual SLAM. Our method, which runs live at 3fps, utilises Gaussians as the only 3D representation, unifying the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Hidenobu Matsuki , Riku Murai , Paul H. J. Kelly , Andrew J. Davison

Conventional geometry-based SLAM systems lack dense 3D reconstruction capabilities since their data association usually relies on feature correspondences. Additionally, learning-based SLAM systems often fall short in terms of real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Zhongche Qu , Zhi Zhang , Cong Liu , Jianhua Yin

Reconstructing 3D assets from images, known as inverse rendering (IR), remains a challenging task due to its ill-posed nature. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive capabilities for novel view synthesis (NVS) tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Hanxiao Sun , YuPeng Gao , Jin Xie , Jian Yang , Beibei Wang

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive performance in synthesizing high-fidelity novel views. Nonetheless, its effectiveness critically depends on the quality of the initialized point cloud. Specifically, achieving uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yikang Zhang , Rui Fan

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a fast, high-quality method for novel view synthesis (NVS). However, its use of low-degree spherical harmonics limits its ability to capture spatially varying color and view-dependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Hoang Chuong Nguyen , Wei Mao , Jose M. Alvarez , Miaomiao Liu

This paper presents a 3D lidar SLAM system based on improved regionalized Gaussian process (GP) map reconstruction to provide both low-drift state estimation and mapping in real-time for robotics applications. We utilize spatial GP…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jianyuan Ruan , Bo Li , Yinqiang Wang , Zhou Fang

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

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) with 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables fast, differentiable rendering and high-fidelity reconstruction across diverse real-world scenes. However, existing 3DGS-SLAM approaches handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Anh Thuan Tran , Jana Kosecka

Recent advancements in dynamic 3D scene reconstruction have shown promising results, enabling high-fidelity 3D novel view synthesis with improved temporal consistency. Among these, 4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS) has emerged as an appealing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Seungjun Oh , Younggeun Lee , Hyejin Jeon , Eunbyung Park