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We propose SemGauss-SLAM, a dense semantic SLAM system utilizing 3D Gaussian representation, that enables accurate 3D semantic mapping, robust camera tracking, and high-quality rendering simultaneously. In this system, we incorporate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Siting Zhu , Renjie Qin , Guangming Wang , Jiuming Liu , Hesheng Wang

Scene graphs are a compact and explicit representation successfully used in a variety of 2D scene understanding tasks. This work proposes a method to incrementally build up semantic scene graphs from a 3D environment given a sequence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Shun-Cheng Wu , Johanna Wald , Keisuke Tateno , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Modern Gaussian Splatting methods have proven highly effective for real-time photorealistic rendering of 3D scenes. However, integrating semantic information into this representation remains a significant challenge, especially in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Roman Titkov , Egor Zubkov , Dmitry Yudin , Jaafar Mahmoud , Malik Mohrat , Gennady Sidorov

Visual SLAM algorithms have been enhanced through the exploration of Gaussian Splatting representations, particularly in generating high-fidelity dense maps. While existing methods perform reliably in static environments, they often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yi Liu , Keyu Fan , Bin Lan , Houde Liu

Existing Scene Text Recognition (STR) methods typically use a language model to optimize the joint probability of the 1D character sequence predicted by a visual recognition (VR) model, which ignore the 2D spatial context of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yue He , Chen Chen , Jing Zhang , Juhua Liu , Fengxiang He , Chaoyue Wang , Bo Du

Object detection, scene graph generation and region captioning, which are three scene understanding tasks at different semantic levels, are tied together: scene graphs are generated on top of objects detected in an image with their pairwise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Yikang Li , Wanli Ouyang , Bolei Zhou , Kun Wang , Xiaogang Wang

Visual scene understanding is a fundamental task in computer vision that aims to extract meaningful information from visual data. It traditionally involves disjoint and specialized algorithms for different tasks that are tailored for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Américo Pereira , Pedro Carvalho , Luís Côrte-Real

In this paper, we present an evolved version of Situational Graphs, which jointly models in a single optimizable factor graph (1) a pose graph, as a set of robot keyframes comprising associated measurements and robot poses, and (2) a 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Hriday Bavle , Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez , Muhammad Shaheer , Javier Civera , Holger Voos

This letter proposes a method of global localization on a map with semantic object landmarks. One of the most promising approaches for localization on object maps is to use semantic graph matching using landmark descriptors calculated from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Shigemichi Matsuzaki , Kazuhito Tanaka , Kazuhiro Shintani

In this paper, we propose a new framework for zero-shot object navigation. Existing zero-shot object navigation methods prompt LLM with the text of spatially closed objects, which lacks enough scene context for in-depth reasoning. To better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Hang Yin , Xiuwei Xu , Zhenyu Wu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

3D semantic scene graphs (3DSSG) provide compact structured representations of environments by explicitly modeling objects, attributes, and relationships. While 3DSSGs have shown promise in robotics and embodied AI, many existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Marian Renz , Felix Igelbrink , Martin Atzmueller

Visibility analysis in urban planning has traditionally relied on line-of-sight (LoS) simulations, which capture geometric occlusion. However, these approaches depend on accurate 3D data that is often unavailable and may not adequately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zicheng Fan , Kunihiko Fujiwara , Pengyuan Liu , Fan Zhang , Filip Biljecki

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is one of the most important environment-perception and navigation algorithms for computer vision, robotics, and autonomous cars/drones. Hence, high quality and fast mapping becomes a fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Runfa Blark Li , Mahdi Shaghaghi , Keito Suzuki , Xinshuang Liu , Varun Moparthi , Bang Du , Walker Curtis , Martin Renschler , Ki Myung Brian Lee , Nikolay Atanasov , Truong Nguyen

The assumption of scene rigidity is common in visual SLAM algorithms. However, it limits their applicability in populated real-world environments. Furthermore, most scenarios including autonomous driving, multi-robot collaboration and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Berta Bescos , Carlos Campos , Juan D. Tardós , José Neira

Multi-label image recognition aims to predict a set of labels that present in an image. The key to deal with such problem is to mine the associations between image contents and labels, and further obtain the correct assignments between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yanan Wu , Songhe Feng , Yang Wang

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

3D scene graphs provide a structured representation of object entities and their relationships, enabling high-level interpretation and reasoning for robots while remaining intuitively understandable to humans. Existing approaches for 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Zirui Wang , Ruiping Liu , Yufan Chen , Junwei Zheng , Weijia Fan , Kunyu Peng , Di Wen , Jiale Wei , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Semantic SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) systems enrich robot maps with structural and semantic information, enabling robots to operate more effectively in complex environments. However, these systems struggle in real-world…

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) technology has recently achieved photorealistic mapping capabilities thanks to the real-time, high-fidelity rendering enabled by 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). However, due to the static…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhicong Sun , Jacqueline Lo , Jinxing Hu

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