English
Related papers

Related papers: Large-Scale Dense 3D Mapping Using Submaps Derived…

200 papers

In this paper, we present an omnidirectional localization and dense mapping system for a wide-baseline multiview stereo setup with ultra-wide field-of-view (FOV) fisheye cameras, which has a 360 degrees coverage of stereo observations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Changhee Won , Hochang Seok , Zhaopeng Cui , Marc Pollefeys , Jongwoo Lim

Enabling fully autonomous robots capable of navigating and exploring large-scale, unknown and complex environments has been at the core of robotics research for several decades. A key requirement in autonomous exploration is building…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Kamak Ebadi , Matteo Palieri , Sally Wood , Curtis Padgett , Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi

Quadrotors hold significant promise for several applications such as agriculture, search and rescue, and infrastructure inspection. Achieving autonomous operation requires systems to navigate safely through complex and unfamiliar…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jeffrey Mao , Raghuram Cauligi Srinivas , Steven Nogar , Giuseppe Loianno

In challenging environments where traditional sensing modalities struggle, in-air sonar offers resilience to optical interference. Placing a priori known landmarks in these environments can eliminate accumulated errors in autonomous mobile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Wouter Jansen , Jan Steckel

In this paper, we address the challenging problem of data association for underwater SLAM through a novel method for sonar image correspondence using learned features. We introduce SONIC (SONar Image Correspondence), a pose-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Samiran Gode , Akshay Hinduja , Michael Kaess

Underwater 3D object detection remains one of the most challenging frontiers in computer vision, where traditional approaches struggle with the harsh acoustic environment and scarcity of training data. While deep learning has revolutionized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 M. Salman Shaukat , Yannik Käckenmeister , Sebastian Bader , Thomas Kirste

Traditional Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (vSLAM) systems focus solely on static scene structures, overlooking dynamic elements in the environment. Although effective for accurate visual odometry in complex scenarios, these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Jesse Morris , Yiduo Wang , Mikolaj Kliniewski , Viorela Ila

In this paper, we propose a novel dense surfel mapping system that scales well in different environments with only CPU computation. Using a sparse SLAM system to estimate camera poses, the proposed mapping system can fuse intensity images…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Kaixuan Wang , Fei Gao , Shaojie Shen

Building accurate maps is a key building block to enable reliable localization, planning, and navigation of autonomous vehicles. We propose a novel approach for building accurate maps of dynamic environments utilizing a sequence of LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Xingguang Zhong , Yue Pan , Cyrill Stachniss , Jens Behley

In many applications, maintaining a consistent dense map of the environment is key to enabling robotic platforms to perform higher level decision making. Several works have addressed the challenge of creating precise dense 3D maps from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Alexander Millane , Zachary Taylor , Helen Oleynikova , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart , César Cadena

Large-scale semantic mapping is crucial for outdoor autonomous agents to fulfill high-level tasks such as planning and navigation. This paper proposes a novel method for large-scale 3D semantic reconstruction through implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jianyuan Zhang , Zhiliu Yang , Meng Zhang

Reliable and accurate localization and mapping are key components of most autonomous systems. Besides geometric information about the mapped environment, the semantics plays an important role to enable intelligent navigation behaviors. In…

Generating 3D point cloud (PC) data from noisy sonar measurements is a problem that has potential applications for bathymetry mapping, artificial object inspection, mapping of aquatic plants and fauna as well as underwater navigation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Andres Pulido , Ruoyao Qin , Antonio Diaz , Andrew Ortega , Peter Ifju , Jaejeong Shin

Automatic underground parking has attracted considerable attention as the scope of autonomous driving expands. The auto-vehicle is supposed to obtain the environmental information, track its location, and build a reliable map of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Jiawei Hou , Qi Chen , Yurong Cheng , Guang Chen , Xiangyang Xue , Taiping Zeng , Jian Pu

Achieving real-time Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) based on 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) in large-scale real-world environments remains challenging, as existing methods still struggle to jointly achieve low-latency pose…

Dense simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is crucial for robotics and augmented reality applications. However, current methods are often hampered by the non-volumetric or implicit way they represent a scene. This work introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Nikhil Keetha , Jay Karhade , Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula , Gengshan Yang , Sebastian Scherer , Deva Ramanan , Jonathon Luiten

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

The representation of geometry in real-time 3D perception systems continues to be a critical research issue. Dense maps capture complete surface shape and can be augmented with semantic labels, but their high dimensionality makes them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Michael Bloesch , Jan Czarnowski , Ronald Clark , Stefan Leutenegger , Andrew J. Davison

Modern 3D laser-range scanners have a high data rate, making online simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) computationally challenging. Recursive state estimation techniques are efficient but commit to a state estimate immediately…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-17 David Droeschel , Sven Behnke

High resolution depth-maps, obtained by upsampling sparse range data from a 3D-LIDAR, find applications in many fields ranging from sensory perception to semantic segmentation and object detection. Upsampling is often based on combining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-20 C. Premebida , L. Garrote , A. Asvadi , A. Pedro Ribeiro , U. Nunes