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Visual SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) methods typically rely on handcrafted visual features or raw RGB values for establishing correspondences between images. These features, while suitable for sparse mapping, often lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Chamara Saroj Weerasekera , Ravi Garg , Yasir Latif , Ian Reid

Monocular SLAM algorithms perform robustly when observing rigid scenes, however, they fail when the observed scene deforms, for example, in medical endoscopy applications. We present DefSLAM, the first monocular SLAM capable of operating in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Jose Lamarca , Shaifali Parashar , Adrien Bartoli , J. M. M. Montiel

Recent advances in Dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) have demonstrated remarkable performance in static environments. However, dense SLAM in dynamic environments remains challenging. Most methods directly remove dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Siting Zhu , Yuxiang Huang , Wenhua Wu , Chaokang Jiang , Yongbo Chen , I-Ming Chen , Hesheng Wang

Gaussian SLAM systems excel in real-time rendering and fine-grained reconstruction compared to NeRF-based systems. However, their reliance on extensive keyframes is impractical for deployment in real-world robotic systems, which typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Mingrui Li , Shuhong Liu , Tianchen Deng , Hongyu Wang

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

Classical monocular Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) and the recently emerging convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for monocular depth prediction represent two largely disjoint approaches towards building a 3D map of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Lokender Tiwari , Pan Ji , Quoc-Huy Tran , Bingbing Zhuang , Saket Anand , Manmohan Chandraker

SLAM systems based on Gaussian Splatting have garnered attention due to their capabilities for rapid real-time rendering and high-fidelity mapping. However, current Gaussian Splatting SLAM systems usually struggle with large scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Jingwei Huang , Mingrui Li , Lei Sun , Aaron Xuxiang Tian , Tianchen Deng , Hongyu Wang

While neural 3D reconstruction has advanced substantially, its performance significantly degrades with sparse-view data, which limits its broader applicability, since SfM is often unreliable in sparse-view scenarios where feature matches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhiwen Fan , Wenyan Cong , Kairun Wen , Kevin Wang , Jian Zhang , Xinghao Ding , Danfei Xu , Boris Ivanovic , Marco Pavone , Georgios Pavlakos , Zhangyang Wang , Yue Wang

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

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

Recently, Gaussian Splatting has sparked a new trend in the field of computer vision. Apart from novel view synthesis, it has also been extended to the area of multi-view reconstruction. The latest methods facilitate complete, detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Han Huang , Yulun Wu , Chao Deng , Ge Gao , Ming Gu , Yu-Shen Liu

Tissue deformation poses a key challenge for accurate surgical scene reconstruction. Despite yielding high reconstruction quality, existing methods suffer from slow rendering speeds and long training times, limiting their intraoperative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Shuojue Yang , Qian Li , Daiyun Shen , Bingchen Gong , Qi Dou , Yueming Jin

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a promising direction for SLAM due to its high-fidelity reconstruction and rapid convergence. However, 3DGS-SLAM algorithms remain impractical for mobile platforms due to their high computational…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xiaotong Huang , He Zhu , Tianrui Ma , Yuxiang Xiong , Fangxin Liu , Zhezhi He , Yiming Gan , Zihan Liu , Jingwen Leng , Yu Feng , Minyi Guo

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) based on 3D Gaussian Splats (3DGS) has recently shown promise towards more accurate, dense 3D scene maps. However, existing 3DGS-based methods fail to address the global consistency of the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Liyuan Zhu , Yue Li , Erik Sandström , Shengyu Huang , Konrad Schindler , Iro Armeni

This work proposes a new method for real-time dense 3d reconstruction for common 360{\deg} action cams, which can be mounted on small scouting UAVs during USAR missions. The proposed method extends a feature based Visual monocular SLAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Hartmut Surmann , Marc Thurow , Dominik Slomma

Sparse-view satellite image surface reconstruction remains highly challenging, fundamentally because the reliability of multi-view matching under satellite imaging conditions is strongly spatially heterogeneous. Affected by large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Min Chen , Wei Guo , Bin Wang , Wen Li , Tong Fang , Jinbo Zhang , Junqi Zhao , Hong Kuang , Han Hu , Xuming Ge , Qing Zhu , Bo Xu

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting and its derivatives have achieved significant breakthroughs in large-scale scene reconstruction. However, how to efficiently and stably achieve high-quality geometric fidelity remains a core challenge. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Kehua Chen , Tianlu Mao , Xinzhu Ma , Hao Jiang , Zehao Li , Zihan Liu , Shuqin Gao , Honglong Zhao , Feng Dai , Yucheng Zhang , Zhaoqi Wang

We introduce the Deformable Gaussian Splats Large Reconstruction Model (DGS-LRM), the first feed-forward method predicting deformable 3D Gaussian splats from a monocular posed video of any dynamic scene. Feed-forward scene reconstruction…

Recent advances in generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting have demonstrated promising results in real-time high-fidelity rendering without per-scene optimization, yet existing approaches still struggle to handle unfamiliar visual content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Yifan Liu , Keyu Fan , Weihao Yu , Chenxin Li , Hao Lu , Yixuan Yuan

Synthesizing novel views from in-the-wild monocular videos is challenging due to scene dynamics and the lack of multi-view cues. To address this, we propose SplineGS, a COLMAP-free dynamic 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Jongmin Park , Minh-Quan Viet Bui , Juan Luis Gonzalez Bello , Jaeho Moon , Jihyong Oh , Munchurl Kim