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We present a novel approach for estimating depth from a monocular camera as it moves through complex and crowded indoor environments, e.g., a department store or a metro station. Our approach predicts absolute scale depth maps over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Dongki Jung , Jaehoon Choi , Yonghan Lee , Deokhwa Kim , Changick Kim , Dinesh Manocha , Donghwan Lee

Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) gained tremendous attention in recent years. Autonomous flight in indoor requires a dense depth map for navigable space detection which is the fundamental component for autonomous navigation. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Arindam Saha , Soumyadip Maity , Brojeshwar Bhowmick

Underwater monocular SLAM is a challenging problem with applications from autonomous underwater vehicles to marine archaeology. However, existing underwater SLAM methods struggle to produce maps with high-fidelity rendering. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Kangxu Wang , Shaofeng Zou , Chenxing Jiang , Yixiang Dai , Siang Chen , Shaojie Shen , Guijin Wang

LiDAR sensors are a powerful tool for robot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in unknown environments, but the raw point clouds they produce are dense, computationally expensive to store, and unsuited for direct use by downstream…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Adam Dai , Greg Lund , Grace Gao

Neural field-based SLAM methods typically employ a single, monolithic field as their scene representation. This prevents efficient incorporation of loop closure constraints and limits scalability. To address these shortcomings, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Leonard Bruns , Jun Zhang , Patric Jensfelt

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

In recent years, there have been significant advancements in 3D reconstruction and dense RGB-D SLAM systems. One notable development is the application of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) in these systems, which utilizes implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Tianchen Deng , Yanbo Wang , Hongle Xie , Hesheng Wang , Jingchuan Wang , Danwei Wang , Weidong Chen

This paper presents a novel dense optical-flow algorithm to solve the monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem for ground or aerial robots. Dense optical flow can effectively provide the ego-motion of the vehicle while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Yonhon Ng , Hongdong Li , Jonghyuk Kim

We present a dense simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method that uses 3D Gaussians as a scene representation. Our approach enables interactive-time reconstruction and photo-realistic rendering from real-world single-camera RGBD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Vladimir Yugay , Yue Li , Theo Gevers , Martin R. Oswald

This paper studies 3D LiDAR mapping with a focus on developing an updatable and localizable map representation that enables continuity, compactness and consistency in 3D maps. Traditional LiDAR Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Kaicheng Zhang , Shida Xu , Yining Ding , Xianwen Kong , Sen Wang

In this paper, we introduce \textbf{GS-SLAM} that first utilizes 3D Gaussian representation in the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system. It facilitates a better balance between efficiency and accuracy. Compared to recent SLAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Chi Yan , Delin Qu , Dan Xu , Bin Zhao , Zhigang Wang , Dong Wang , Xuelong Li

Visual challenges in underwater environments significantly hinder the accuracy of vision-based localisation and the high-fidelity dense reconstruction. In this paper, we propose VISO, a robust underwater SLAM system that fuses a stereo…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Shu Pan , Simon Archieri , Ahmet Cinar , Jonatan Scharff Willners , Ignacio Carlucho , Yvan Petillot

We present a stereo-based dense mapping algorithm for large-scale dynamic urban environments. In contrast to other existing methods, we simultaneously reconstruct the static background, the moving objects, and the potentially moving but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Ioan Andrei Bârsan , Peidong Liu , Marc Pollefeys , Andreas Geiger

Efficient multi-agent 3D mapping is essential for robotic teams operating in unknown environments, but dense representations hinder real-time exchange over constrained communication links. In multi-agent Simultaneous Localization and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Monica M. Q. Li , Pierre-Yves Lajoie , Jialiang Liu , Giovanni Beltrame

Scene flow is the dense 3D reconstruction of motion and geometry of a scene. Most state-of-the-art methods use a pair of stereo images as input for full scene reconstruction. These methods depend a lot on the quality of the RGB images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Rishav , Ramy Battrawy , René Schuster , Oliver Wasenmüller , Didier Stricker

We present FlashSLAM, a novel SLAM approach that leverages 3D Gaussian Splatting for efficient and robust 3D scene reconstruction. Existing 3DGS-based SLAM methods often fall short in sparse view settings and during large camera movements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Phu Pham , Damon Conover , Aniket Bera

We present ESLAM, an efficient implicit neural representation method for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). ESLAM reads RGB-D frames with unknown camera poses in a sequential manner and incrementally reconstructs the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Mohammad Mahdi Johari , Camilla Carta , François Fleuret

Conventional SLAM systems using visual or LiDAR data often struggle in poor lighting and severe weather. Although 4D radar is suited for such environments, its sparse and noisy point clouds hinder accurate odometry estimation, while the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Zhiheng Li , Weihua Wang , Qiang Shen , Yichen Zhao , Zheng Fang

Current Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) methods based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) or 3D Gaussian Splatting excel in reconstructing static 3D scenes but struggle with tracking and reconstruction in dynamic environments,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Mingrui Li , Yiming Zhou , Hongxing Zhou , Xinggang Hu , Florian Roemer , Hongyu Wang , Ahmad Osman

This paper presents a novel tightly-coupled monocular visual-inertial Simultaneous Localization and Mapping algorithm, which provides accurate and robust localization within the globally consistent map in real time on a standard CPU. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Meixiang Quan , Songhao Piao , Minglang Tan , Shi-Sheng Huang