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In a Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system, a loop-closure can eliminate accumulated errors, which is accomplished by Visual Place Recognition (VPR), a task that retrieves the current scene from a set of pre-stored sequential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Nie Jiwei , Feng Joe-Mei , Xue Dingyu , Pan Feng , Liu Wei , Hu Jun , Cheng Shuai

Place recognition and loop-closure detection are main challenges in the localization, mapping and navigation tasks of self-driving vehicles. In this paper, we solve the loop-closure detection problem by incorporating the deep-learning based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Zhe Liu , Chuanzhe Suo , Shunbo Zhou , Huanshu Wei , Yingtian Liu , Hesheng Wang , Yun-Hui Liu

Visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) and 3D reconstruction methods have gone through impressive progress. These methods are very promising for autonomous vehicle and consumer robot applications because they can map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Guoxiang Zhang , YangQuan Chen

Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is a fundamental problem in mobile robotics. While sparse point-based SLAM methods provide accurate camera localization, the generated maps lack semantic information. On the other hand, state of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh , Kejie Li , Yasir Latif , Ian Reid

Accurate and robust localization and mapping are essential components for most autonomous robots. In this paper, we propose a SLAM system for building globally consistent maps, called PIN-SLAM, that is based on an elastic and compact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Yue Pan , Xingguang Zhong , Louis Wiesmann , Thorbjörn Posewsky , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Moving objects can greatly jeopardize the performance of a visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) system which relies on the static-world assumption. Motion removal have seen successful on solving this problem. Two main…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Ting Sun , Yuxiang Sun , Ming Liu , Dit-Yan Yeung

This paper presents a novel framework for simultaneously implementing localization and segmentation, which are two of the most important vision-based tasks for robotics. While the goals and techniques used for them were considered to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Kai Wang , Yimin Lin , Luowei Wang , Liming Han , Minjie Hua , Xiang Wang , Shiguo Lian , Bill Huang

An accurate and computationally efficient SLAM algorithm is vital for modern autonomous vehicles. To make a lightweight the algorithm, most SLAM systems rely on feature detection from images for vision SLAM or point cloud for laser-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Waqas Ali , Peilin Liu , Rendong Ying , Zheng Gong

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) frameworks for autonomous navigation rely on robust data association to identify loop closures for back-end trajectory optimization. In the case of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) equipped…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Jiarui Tan , Ignacio Torroba , Yiping Xie , John Folkesson

As the robot explores the environment, the map grows over time in the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system, especially for the large scale environment. The ever-growing map prevents long-term mapping. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Taiping Zeng , Bailu Si

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

Recently, there has been a growing interest in leveraging pre-trained large language models (LLMs) for various time series applications. However, the semantic space of LLMs, established through the pre-training, is still underexplored and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Zijie Pan , Yushan Jiang , Sahil Garg , Anderson Schneider , Yuriy Nevmyvaka , Dongjin Song

Semantic code search is the task of retrieving a code snippet given a textual description of its functionality. Recent work has been focused on using similarity metrics between neural embeddings of text and code. However, current language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Shushan Arakelyan , Anna Hakhverdyan , Miltiadis Allamanis , Luis Garcia , Christophe Hauser , Xiang Ren

Simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) algorithms are commonly used in robotic systems for learning maps of novel environments. Brains also appear to learn maps, but the mechanisms are not known and it is unclear how to infer these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Kipp Freud , Nathan Lepora , Matt W. Jones , Cian O'Donnell

The key to successive cancellation (SC) flip decoding of polar codes is to accurately identify the first error bit. The optimal flipping strategy is considered difficult due to lack of an analytical solution. Alternatively, we propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Xianbin Wang , Huazi Zhang , Rong Li , Lingchen Huang , Shengchen Dai , Yourui Huangfu , Jun Wang

SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) seeks to provide a moving agent with real-time self-localization. To achieve real-time speed, SLAM incrementally propagates position estimates. This makes SLAM fast but also makes it vulnerable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Huajian Huang , Wen-Yan Lin , Siying Liu , Dong Zhang , Sai-Kit Yeung

Traditional SLAM algorithms are typically based on artificial features, which lack high-level information. By introducing semantic information, SLAM can own higher stability and robustness rather than purely hand-crafted features. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Xianwei Meng , Bonian Li

Sign language is commonly used by deaf or speech impaired people to communicate but requires significant effort to master. Sign Language Recognition (SLR) aims to bridge the gap between sign language users and others by recognizing signs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Songyao Jiang , Bin Sun , Lichen Wang , Yue Bai , Kunpeng Li , Yun Fu

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) plays an important role in many robotics fields, including social robots. Many of the available visual SLAM methods are based on the assumption of a static world and struggle in dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Mobin Habibpour , Alireza Nemati , Ali Meghdari , Alireza Taheri , Shima Nazari

Loop closure is crucial for maintaining the accuracy and consistency of visual SLAM. We propose a method to improve loop closure performance in DPV-SLAM. Our approach integrates AnyLoc, a learning-based visual place recognition technique,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Wenzheng Zhang , Kazuki Adachi , Yoshitaka Hara , Sousuke Nakamura