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We introduce ConfidentSplat, a novel 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)-based SLAM system for robust, highfidelity RGB-only reconstruction. Addressing geometric inaccuracies in existing RGB-only 3DGS SLAM methods that stem from unreliable depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Amanuel T. Dufera , Yuan-Li Cai

Autonomous navigation is one of the key requirements for every potential application of mobile robots in the real-world. Besides high-accuracy state estimation, a suitable and globally consistent representation of the 3D environment is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Simon Boche , Sebastián Barbas Laina , Stefan Leutenegger

Models and methods originally developed for Novel View Synthesis and Scene Rendering, such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and Gaussian Splatting, are increasingly being adopted as representations in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Samuel Cerezo , Gaetano Meli , Tomás Berriel Martins , Kirill Safronov , Javier Civera

Gaussian Splatting SLAMs have made significant advancements in improving the efficiency and fidelity of real-time reconstructions. However, these systems often encounter incomplete reconstructions in complex indoor environments,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Shuhong Liu , Tianchen Deng , Heng Zhou , Liuzhuozheng Li , Hongyu Wang , Danwei Wang , Mingrui Li

Constructing a high-fidelity representation of the 3D scene using a monocular camera can enable a wide range of applications on mobile devices, such as micro-robots, smartphones, and AR/VR headsets. On these devices, memory is often limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Dasong Gao , Peter Zhi Xuan Li , Vivienne Sze , Sertac Karaman

SLAM systems based on NeRF have demonstrated superior performance in rendering quality and scene reconstruction for static environments compared to traditional dense SLAM. However, they encounter tracking drift and mapping errors in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Mingrui Li , Yiming Zhou , Guangan Jiang , Tianchen Deng , Yangyang Wang , Hongyu Wang

We propose Hier-SLAM++, a comprehensive Neuro-Symbolic semantic 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM method with both RGB-D and monocular input featuring an advanced hierarchical categorical representation, which enables accurate pose estimation as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Boying Li , Vuong Chi Hao , Peter J. Stuckey , Ian Reid , Hamid Rezatofighi

Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is a task to estimate the robot location and to reconstruct the environment based on observation from sensors such as LIght Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) and camera. It is widely used in robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Han Wang , Chen Wang , Lihua Xie

Recent advancements in photo-realistic novel view synthesis have been significantly driven by Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Nevertheless, the explicit nature of 3DGS data entails considerable storage requirements, highlighting a pressing need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Minye Wu , Tinne Tuytelaars

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as an alternative representation that leverages a 3D Gaussian-based representation and introduces an approximated volumetric rendering, achieving very fast rendering speed and promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Joo Chan Lee , Daniel Rho , Xiangyu Sun , Jong Hwan Ko , Eunbyung Park

Capturing and reconstructing high-speed dynamic 3D scenes has numerous applications in computer graphics, vision, and interdisciplinary fields such as robotics, aerodynamics, and evolutionary biology. However, achieving this using a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Zihao Zou , Ziyuan Qu , Xi Peng , Vivek Boominathan , Adithya Pediredla , Praneeth Chakravarthula

Neural implicit representations have emerged as a promising solution for providing dense geometry in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). However, existing methods in this direction fall short in terms of global consistency and low…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yunxuan Mao , Xuan Yu , Kai Wang , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong , Yiyi Liao

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

Understanding geometric, semantic, and instance information in 3D scenes from sequential video data is essential for applications in robotics and augmented reality. However, existing Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Runnan Chen , Zhaoqing Wang , Jiepeng Wang , Yuexin Ma , Mingming Gong , Wenping Wang , Tongliang Liu

This paper presents a novel approach to visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) using multiple RGB-D cameras. The proposed method, Multicam-SLAM, significantly enhances the robustness and accuracy of SLAM systems by capturing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Shenghao Li , Luchao Pang , Xianglong Hu

Recent progress in scene synthesis makes standalone SLAM systems purely based on optimizing hyperprimitives with a Rendering objective possible. However, the tracking performance still lacks behind traditional and end-to-end SLAM systems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Christian Homeyer , Leon Begiristain , Christoph Schnörr

This study addresses the challenge of online 3D model generation for neural rendering using an RGB image stream. Previous research has tackled this issue by incorporating Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) or 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Byeonggwon Lee , Junkyu Park , Khang Truong Giang , Sungho Jo , Soohwan Song

This paper introduces LiGSM, a novel LiDAR-enhanced 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) mapping framework that improves the accuracy and robustness of 3D scene mapping by integrating LiDAR data. LiGSM constructs joint loss from images and LiDAR…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Jian Shen , Huai Yu , Ji Wu , Wen Yang , Gui-Song Xia

Navigating outdoor environments with visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems poses significant challenges due to dynamic scenes, lighting variations, and seasonal changes, requiring robust solutions. While traditional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Fabian Schmidt , Markus Enzweiler , Abhinav Valada

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