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Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has achieved impressive performance in static environments. However, SLAM in dynamic environments remains an open question. Many methods directly filter out dynamic objects, resulting in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Haoang Li , Xiangqi Meng , Xingxing Zuo , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang , Daniel Cremers

Recent progress in dense SLAM has primarily targeted monocular setups, often at the expense of robustness and geometric coverage. We present MCGS-SLAM, the first purely RGB-based multi-camera SLAM system built on 3D Gaussian Splatting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zhihao Cao , Hanyu Wu , Li Wa Tang , Zizhou Luo , Wei Zhang , Marc Pollefeys , Zihan Zhu , Martin R. Oswald

3D Gaussian Splatting is renowned for its high-fidelity reconstructions and real-time novel view synthesis, yet its lack of semantic understanding limits object-level perception. In this work, we propose ObjectGS, an object-aware framework…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ruijie Zhu , Mulin Yu , Linning Xu , Lihan Jiang , Yixuan Li , Tianzhu Zhang , Jiangmiao Pang , Bo Dai

Reconstructing dynamic scenes with multiple interacting humans and objects from sparse-view inputs is a critical yet challenging task, essential for creating high-fidelity digital twins for robotics and VR/AR. This problem, which we term…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Weiquan Wang , Jun Xiao , Feifei Shao , Yi Yang , Yueting Zhuang , Long Chen

Recent trends in SLAM and visual navigation have embraced 3D Gaussians as the preferred scene representation, highlighting the importance of estimating camera poses from a single image using a pre-built Gaussian model. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Hao Wang , Linqing Zhao , Xiuwei Xu , Jiwen Lu , Haibin Yan

SLAM (Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping) is a crucial component for robotic systems, providing a map of an environment, the current location and previous trajectory of a robot. While 3D LiDAR SLAM has received notable improvements in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Leon Davies , Baihua Li , Mohamad Saada , Simon Sølvsten , Qinggang Meng

Computer vision technologies markedly enhance the automation capabilities of robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RAMIS) through advanced tool tracking, detection, and localization. However, the limited availability of comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Tianle Zeng , Gerardo Loza Galindo , Junlei Hu , Pietro Valdastri , Dominic Jones

Accurate object perception is essential for robotic applications such as object navigation. In this paper, we propose DQO-MAP, a novel object-SLAM system that seamlessly integrates object pose estimation and reconstruction. We employ 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Haoyuan Li , Ziqin Ye , Yue Hao , Weiyang Lin , Chao Ye

High dynamic range (HDR) novel view synthesis (NVS) aims to reconstruct HDR scenes by leveraging multi-view low dynamic range (LDR) images captured at different exposure levels. Current training paradigms with 3D tone mapping often result…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Jinfeng Liu , Lingtong Kong , Bo Li , Dan Xu

This paper presents a novel approach to image-goal navigation by integrating 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) with Visual Navigation Models (VNMs), a method we refer to as GSplatVNM. VNMs offer a promising paradigm for image-goal navigation by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Kohei Honda , Takeshi Ishita , Yasuhiro Yoshimura , Ryo Yonetani

3D Gaussian splatting has emerged as an expressive scene representation for RGB-D visual SLAM, but its application to large-scale, multi-agent outdoor environments remains unexplored. Multi-agent Gaussian SLAM is a promising approach to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Annika Thomas , Aneesa Sonawalla , Alex Rose , Jonathan P. How

Visual SLAM algorithms achieve significant improvements through the exploration of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) representations, particularly in generating high-fidelity dense maps. However, they depend on a static environment assumption…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yi Liu , Haoxuan Xu , Hongbo Duan , Keyu Fan , Zhengyang Zhang , Peiyu Zhuang , Pengting Luo , Houde Liu

The core problem of visual multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping (MR-SLAM) is how to efficiently and accurately perform multi-robot global localization (MR-GL). The difficulties are two-fold. The first is the difficulty of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Xiyue Guo , Junjie Hu , Junfeng Chen , Fuqin Deng , Tin Lun Lam

While generalizable 3D Gaussian splatting enables efficient, high-quality rendering of unseen scenes, it heavily depends on precise camera poses for accurate geometry. In real-world scenarios, obtaining accurate poses is challenging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Youngju Na , Taeyeon Kim , Jumin Lee , Kyu Beom Han , Woo Jae Kim , Sung-eui Yoon

Precisely perceiving the geometric and semantic properties of real-world 3D objects is crucial for the continued evolution of augmented reality and robotic applications. To this end, we present Foundation Model Embedded Gaussian Splatting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Xingxing Zuo , Pouya Samangouei , Yunwen Zhou , Yan Di , Mingyang Li

Recent advances in text-to-3D creation integrate the potent prior of Diffusion Models from text-to-image generation into 3D domain. Nevertheless, generating 3D scenes with multiple objects remains challenging. Therefore, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yueming Zhao , Xuening Yuan , Hongyu Yang , Di Huang

In complex environments, autonomous robot navigation and environmental perception pose higher requirements for SLAM technology. This paper presents a novel method for semantically enhancing 3D point cloud maps with thermal information. By…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Jiajun Sun , Yangyi Ou , Haoyuan Zheng , Chao yang , Yue Ma

Collaborative photorealistic 3D reconstruction from multiple agents enables rapid large-scale scene capture for virtual production and cooperative multi-robot exploration. While recent 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) SLAM algorithms can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhihao Cao , Qi Shao , Shuhao Zhai , Jing Zhang , Anh Nguyen , Baoru Huang

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

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) techniques play a key role towards long-term autonomy of mobile robots due to the ability to correct localization errors and produce consistent maps of an environment over time. Contrarily to…