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Thermal cameras offer several advantages for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with mobile robots: they provide a passive, low-power solution to operating in darkness, are invariant to rapidly changing or high dynamic range…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Spencer Carmichael , Katherine A. Skinner

Achieving high-fidelity 3D reconstruction from monocular video remains challenging due to the inherent limitations of traditional methods like Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and monocular SLAM in accurately capturing scene details. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yue Hu , Rong Liu , Meida Chen , Peter Beerel , Andrew Feng

We present SGS-SLAM, the first semantic visual SLAM system based on Gaussian Splatting. It incorporates appearance, geometry, and semantic features through multi-channel optimization, addressing the oversmoothing limitations of neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Mingrui Li , Shuhong Liu , Heng Zhou , Guohao Zhu , Na Cheng , Tianchen Deng , Hongyu Wang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has shown its ability in rapid rendering and high-fidelity mapping. In this paper, we introduce LVI-GS, a tightly-coupled LiDAR-Visual-Inertial mapping framework with 3DGS, which leverages the complementary…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Huibin Zhao , Weipeng Guan , Peng Lu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieves high-fidelity rendering with fast real-time performance, but existing methods rely on offline training after full Structure-from-Motion (SfM) processing. In contrast, this work introduces Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yiwei Xu , Yifei Yu , Wentian Gan , Tengfei Wang , Zongqian Zhan , Hao Cheng , Xin Wang

We introduce RGS-SLAM, a robust Gaussian-splatting SLAM framework that replaces the residual-driven densification stage of GS-SLAM with a training-free correspondence-to-Gaussian initialization. Instead of progressively adding Gaussians as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Wei-Tse Cheng , Yen-Jen Chiou , Yuan-Fu Yang

Empowering 3D Gaussian Splatting with generalization ability is appealing. However, existing generalizable 3D Gaussian Splatting methods are largely confined to narrow-range interpolation between stereo images due to their heavy backbones,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Yunsong Wang , Tianxin Huang , Hanlin Chen , Gim Hee Lee

We introduce Go-SLAM, a novel framework that utilizes 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM to reconstruct dynamic environments while embedding object-level information within the scene representations. This framework employs advanced object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Phu Pham , Dipam Patel , Damon Conover , Aniket Bera

This paper presents a 3D lidar SLAM system based on improved regionalized Gaussian process (GP) map reconstruction to provide both low-drift state estimation and mapping in real-time for robotics applications. We utilize spatial GP…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jianyuan Ruan , Bo Li , Yinqiang Wang , Zhou Fang

Robotics applications often rely on scene reconstructions to enable downstream tasks. In this work, we tackle the challenge of actively building an accurate map of an unknown scene using an RGB-D camera on a mobile platform. We propose a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Liren Jin , Xingguang Zhong , Yue Pan , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss , Marija Popović

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

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) serves as a highly performant and efficient encoding of scene geometry, appearance, and semantics. Moreover, grounding language in 3D scenes has proven to be an effective strategy for 3D scene understanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Mengjiao Ma , Qi Ma , Yue Li , Jiahuan Cheng , Runyi Yang , Bin Ren , Nikola Popovic , Mingqiang Wei , Nicu Sebe , Luc Van Gool , Theo Gevers , Martin R. Oswald , Danda Pani Paudel

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables efficient training and fast novel view synthesis in static environments. To address challenges posed by transient objects, distractor-free 3DGS methods have emerged and shown promising results when dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yi Gu , Zhaorui Wang , Jiahang Cao , Jiaxu Wang , Mingle Zhao , Dongjun Ye , Renjing Xu

In this paper, we propose a RGB-D SLAM system that reconstructs a language-aligned dense feature field while sustaining low-latency tracking and mapping. First, we introduce a Top-K Rendering pipeline, a high-throughput and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Seongbo Ha , Sibaek Lee , Kyungsu Kang , Joonyeol Choi , Seungjun Tak , Hyeonwoo Yu

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

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become horsepower in high-quality, real-time rendering for novel view synthesis of 3D scenes. However, existing methods focus primarily on geometric and appearance modeling, lacking deeper scene…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Minchao Jiang , Shunyu Jia , Jiaming Gu , Xiaoyuan Lu , Guangming Zhu , Anqi Dong , Liang Zhang

We propose a visual SLAM method by predicting and updating line flows that represent sequential 2D projections of 3D line segments. While feature-based SLAM methods have achieved excellent results, they still face problems in challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Qiuyuan Wang , Zike Yan , Junqiu Wang , Fei Xue , Wei Ma , Hongbin Zha

This paper introduces MipSLAM, a frequency-aware 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) SLAM framework capable of high-fidelity anti-aliased novel view synthesis and robust pose estimation under varying camera configurations. Existing 3DGS-based SLAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yingzhao Li , Yan Li , Shixiong Tian , Yanjie Liu , Lijun Zhao , Gim Hee Lee

In the domain of 3D scene representation, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a pivotal technology. However, its application to large-scale, high-resolution scenes (exceeding 4k$\times$4k pixels) is hindered by the excessive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Wenkai Liu , Tao Guan , Bin Zhu , Lili Ju , Zikai Song , Dan Li , Yuesong Wang , Wei Yang

We propose WildSplatter, a feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) model for unconstrained images with unknown camera parameters and varying lighting conditions. 3DGS is an effective scene representation that enables high-quality,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yuki Fujimura , Takahiro Kushida , Kazuya Kitano , Takuya Funatomi , Yasuhiro Mukaigawa