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We present a real-time tracking SLAM system that unifies efficient camera tracking with photorealistic feature-enriched mapping using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Our main contribution is integrating dense feature rasterization into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Christopher Thirgood , Oscar Mendez , Erin Ling , Jon Storey , Simon Hadfield

We consider the problem of autonomous mobile robot exploration in an unknown environment, taking into account a robot's coverage rate, map uncertainty, and state estimation uncertainty. This paper presents a novel exploration framework for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Jinkun Wang , Fanfei Chen , Yewei Huang , John McConnell , Tixiao Shan , Brendan Englot

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

Globally consistent dense maps are a key requirement for long-term robot navigation in complex environments. While previous works have addressed the challenges of dense mapping and global consistency, most require more computational…

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

We present a novel spectral learning algorithm for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) from range data with known correspondences. This algorithm is an instance of a general spectral system identification framework, from which it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-12 Byron Boots , Geoffrey J. Gordon

We propose GeoFusion, a SLAM-based scene estimation method for building an object-level semantic map in dense clutter. In dense clutter, objects are often in close contact and severe occlusions, which brings more false detections and noisy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Zhiqiang Sui , Haonan Chang , Ning Xu , Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

We present SLAIM - Simultaneous Localization and Implicit Mapping. We propose a novel coarse-to-fine tracking model tailored for Neural Radiance Field SLAM (NeRF-SLAM) to achieve state-of-the-art tracking performance. Notably, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Vincent Cartillier , Grant Schindler , Irfan Essa

Nowadays, SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) is considered by the Robotics community to be a mature field. Currently, there are many open-source systems that are able to deliver fast and accurate estimation in typical real-world…

Large-scale multi-session LiDAR mapping is crucial for various applications but still faces significant challenges in data redundancy, memory consumption, and efficiency. This paper presents MS-Mapping, a novel multi-session LiDAR mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Xiangcheng Hu , Jin Wu , Jianhao Jiao , Wei Zhang , Ping Tan

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is essential for mobile robotics, enabling autonomous navigation in dynamic, unstructured outdoor environments without relying on external positioning systems. These environments pose significant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Fabian Schmidt , Constantin Blessing , Markus Enzweiler , Abhinav Valada

Despite recent advances in text-conditioned 3D indoor scene generation, there remain gaps in the evaluation of these methods. Existing metrics often measure realism by comparing generated scenes to a set of ground-truth scenes, but they…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Hou In Ivan Tam , Hou In Derek Pun , Austin T. Wang , Angel X. Chang , Manolis Savva

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) enables spatial understanding, 3D reconstruction, and autonomous navigation, yet deep learning approaches often predict only relative depth without a consistent metric scale. This limitation reduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jiuling Zhang

Topological mapping offers a compact and robust representation for navigation, but progress in the field is hindered by the lack of standardized evaluation metrics, datasets, and protocols. Existing systems are assessed using different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jiaming Wang , Diwen Liu , Jizhuo Chen , Harold Soh

Urban navigation using GPS and fish-eye camera suffers from multipath effects in GPS measurements and data association errors in pixel intensities across image frames. We propose a Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Sriramya Bhamidipati , Grace Xingxin Gao

Perceiving and mapping the surroundings are essential for enabling autonomous navigation in any robotic platform. The algorithm class that enables accurate mapping while correcting the odometry errors present in most robotics systems is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Vlad Niculescu , Tommaso Polonelli , Michele Magno , Luca Benini

Online map estimation is a crucial component of autonomous driving systems that reduces the reliance on costly high-definition maps. State-of-the-art (SOTA) methods commonly predict map elements as ordered sequences of points that form…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Chouaib Bencheikh Lehocine , Adam Lilja , Junsheng Fu , Lars Hammarstrand

Sparse and feature SLAM methods provide robust camera pose estimation. However, they often fail to capture the level of detail required for inspection and scene awareness tasks. Conversely, dense SLAM approaches generate richer scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Maaz Qureshi , Alexander Werner , Zhenan Liu , Amir Khajepour , George Shaker , William Melek

Constructing precise 3D maps is crucial for the development of future map-based systems such as self-driving and navigation. However, generating these maps in complex environments, such as multi-level parking garages or shopping malls,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Xinran Zhang , Hanqi Zhu , Yifan Duan , Wuyang Zhang , Longfei Shangguan , Yu Zhang , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

Autonomous exploration for mapping unknown large scale environments is a fundamental challenge in robotics, with efficiency in time, stability against map corruption and computational resources being crucial. This paper presents a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Megha Maheshwari , Sadeigh Rabiee , He Yin , Martin Labrie , Hang Liu , Rajasimman Madhivanan