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The cost-efficiency of visual(-inertial) SLAM (VSLAM) is a critical characteristic of resource-limited applications. While hardware and algorithm advances have been significantly improved the cost-efficiency of VSLAM front-ends, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Yipu Zhao , Justin S. Smith , Patricio A. Vela

Monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms estimate drone poses and build a 3D map using a single camera. Current algorithms include sparse methods that lack detailed geometry, while learning-driven approaches produce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jeryes Danial , Yosi Ben Asher , Itzik Klein

The real-world deployment of fully autonomous mobile robots depends on a robust SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) system, capable of handling dynamic environments, where objects are moving in front of the robot, and changing…

Vision-based localization for autonomous driving has been of great interest among researchers. When a pre-built 3D map is not available, the techniques of visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) are typically adopted. Due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yanhao Zhang , Yujiao Shi , Shan Wang , Ankit Vora , Akhil Perincherry , Yongbo Chen , Hongdong Li

The monocular visual-inertial system (VINS), which consists one camera and one low-cost inertial measurement unit (IMU), is a popular approach to achieve accurate 6-DOF state estimation. However, such locally accurate visual-inertial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Tong Qin , Perliang Li , Shaojie Shen

This paper presents a robust monocular visual SLAM system that simultaneously utilizes point, line, and vanishing point features for accurate camera pose estimation and mapping. To address the critical challenge of achieving reliable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Bingzheng Jiang , Jiayuan Wang , Han Ding , Lijun Zhu

Visual perception plays an important role in autonomous driving. One of the primary tasks is object detection and identification. Since the vision sensor is rich in color and texture information, it can quickly and accurately identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Fei Liu , Zihao Lu , Xianke Lin

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) plays a vital role in real-time localization for autonomous systems. However, traditional SLAM methods, which assume a static environment, often suffer from significant localization drift…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Haolan Zhang , Thanh Nguyen Canh , Chenghao Li , Nak Young Chong

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has shown promising results for 3D scene modeling using mixtures of Gaussians, yet its existing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) variants typically rely on direct, deterministic pose optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yuhan Zhu , Yanyu Zhang , Jie Xu , Wei Ren

We present a real-time semantic mapping approach for mobile vision systems with a 2D to 3D object detection pipeline and rapid data association for generated landmarks. Besides the semantic map enrichment the associated detections are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Thorsten Hempel , Ayoub Al-Hamadi

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a foundational component in robotics, AR/VR, and autonomous systems. With the rising focus on spatial AI in recent years, combining SLAM with semantic understanding has become increasingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jisang Yoo , Gyeongjin Kang , Hyun-kyu Ko , Hyeonwoo Yu , Eunbyung Park

Real time outdoor navigation in highly dynamic environments is an crucial problem. The recent literature on real time static SLAM don't scale up to dynamic outdoor environments. Most of these methods assume moving objects as outliers or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-04 N Dinesh Reddy , Iman Abbasnejad , Sheetal Reddy , Amit Kumar Mondal , Vindhya Devalla

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems are fundamental building blocks for any autonomous robot navigating in unknown environments. The SLAM implementation heavily depends on the sensor modality employed on the mobile…

To enhance the performance and effect of AR/VR applications and visual assistance and inspection systems, visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) is a fundamental task in computer vision and robotics. However, traditional vSLAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yichen Chen , Yiqi Pan , Ruyu Liu , Haoyu Zhang , Guodao Zhang , Bo Sun , Jianhua Zhang

Neural implicit representations have recently shown promising progress in dense Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM). However, existing works have shortcomings in terms of reconstruction quality and real-time performance, mainly due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zhen Hong , Bowen Wang , Haoran Duan , Yawen Huang , Xiong Li , Zhenyu Wen , Xiang Wu , Wei Xiang , Yefeng Zheng

We present WildGS-SLAM, a robust and efficient monocular RGB SLAM system designed to handle dynamic environments by leveraging uncertainty-aware geometric mapping. Unlike traditional SLAM systems, which assume static scenes, our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jianhao Zheng , Zihan Zhu , Valentin Bieri , Marc Pollefeys , Songyou Peng , Iro Armeni

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

This paper presents ORB-SLAM, a feature-based monocular SLAM system that operates in real time, in small and large, indoor and outdoor environments. The system is robust to severe motion clutter, allows wide baseline loop closing and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-09-21 Raul Mur-Artal , J. M. M. Montiel , Juan D. Tardos

In this paper, we present a monocular Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithm using high-level object and plane landmarks. The built map is denser, more compact and semantic meaningful compared to feature point based SLAM. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Shichao Yang , Sebastian Scherer

Visual SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) based on planar features has found widespread applications in fields such as environmental structure perception and augmented reality. However, current research faces challenges in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Xinggang Hu , Yanmin Wu , Mingyuan Zhao , Linghao Yang , Xiangkui Zhang , Xiangyang Ji