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In this paper, we consider the problems in the practical application of visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). With the popularization and application of the technology in wide scope, the practicability of SLAM system has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 BaoSheng Zhang

Traditional SLAM algorithms excel at camera tracking, but typically produce incomplete and low-resolution maps that are not tightly integrated with semantics prediction. Recent work integrates Gaussian Splatting (GS) into SLAM to enable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Mingqi Jiang , Chanho Kim , Chen Ziwen , Li Fuxin

Recent advancements in monocular neural depth estimation, particularly those achieved by the UniDepth network, have prompted the investigation of integrating UniDepth within a Gaussian splatting framework for monocular SLAM. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Mostafa Mansour , Ahmed Abdelsalam , Ari Happonen , Jari Porras , Esa Rahtu

The assumption of scene rigidity is typical in SLAM algorithms. Such a strong assumption limits the use of most visual SLAM systems in populated real-world environments, which are the target of several relevant applications like service…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Berta Bescos , José M. Fácil , Javier Civera , José Neira

Simultaneous localization and mapping is essential for position tracking and scene understanding. 3D Gaussian-based map representations enable photorealistic reconstruction and real-time rendering of scenes using multiple posed cameras. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Lisong C. Sun , Neel P. Bhatt , Jonathan C. Liu , Zhiwen Fan , Zhangyang Wang , Todd E. Humphreys , Ufuk Topcu

3D Gaussian splatting (3D-GS) has recently revolutionized novel view synthesis in the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. However, most existing algorithms fail to fully capture the underlying structure, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Tianci Wen , Zhiang Liu , Yongchun Fang

Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting have significantly improved the efficiency and quality of dense semantic SLAM. However, previous methods are generally constrained by limited-category pre-trained classifiers and implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Dianyi Yang , Yu Gao , Xihan Wang , Yufeng Yue , Yi Yang , Mengyin Fu

The recently developed Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have shown encouraging and impressive results for visual SLAM. However, most representative methods require RGBD sensors and are only available for indoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Zhe Xin , Chenyang Wu , Penghui Huang , Yanyong Zhang , Yinian Mao , Guoquan Huang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has made remarkable progress in RGBD SLAM. Current methods usually use 3D Gaussians or view-tied 3D Gaussians to represent radiance fields in tracking and mapping. However, these Gaussians are either too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Pengchong Hu , Zhizhong Han

Real-time 3D reconstruction is crucial for robotics and augmented reality, yet current simultaneous localization and mapping(SLAM) approaches often struggle to maintain structural consistency and robust pose estimation in the presence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xu Wang , Boyao Han , Xiaojun Chen , Ying Liu , Ruihui Li

We propose the first 4D tracking and mapping method that jointly performs camera localization and non-rigid surface reconstruction via differentiable rendering. Our approach captures 4D scenes from an online stream of color images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Hidenobu Matsuki , Gwangbin Bae , Andrew J. Davison

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

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled RGB-only SLAM systems to achieve high-fidelity scene representation. However, the heavy reliance of existing systems on photometric rendering loss for camera tracking undermines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhen Tan , Xieyuanli Chen , Lei Feng , Yangbing Ge , Shuaifeng Zhi , Jiaxiong Liu , Dewen Hu

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 propose GSO-SLAM, a real-time monocular dense SLAM system that leverages Gaussian scene representation. Unlike existing methods that couple tracking and mapping with a unified scene, incurring computational costs, or loosely integrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jiung Yeon , Seongbo Ha , Hyeonwoo Yu

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is considered to be a fundamental capability for intelligent mobile robots. Over the past decades, many impressed SLAM systems have been developed and achieved good performance under certain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Chao Yu , Zuxin Liu , Xinjun Liu , Fugui Xie , Yi Yang , Qi Wei , Qiao Fei

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

SLAM systems based on Gaussian Splatting have garnered attention due to their capabilities for rapid real-time rendering and high-fidelity mapping. However, current Gaussian Splatting SLAM systems usually struggle with large scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Jingwei Huang , Mingrui Li , Lei Sun , Aaron Xuxiang Tian , Tianchen Deng , Hongyu Wang

Incrementally recovering real-sized 3D geometry from a pose-free RGB stream is a challenging task in 3D reconstruction, requiring minimal assumptions on input data. Existing methods can be broadly categorized into end-to-end and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Linqing Zhao , Xiuwei Xu , Yirui Wang , Hao Wang , Wenzhao Zheng , Yansong Tang , Haibin Yan , Jiwen Lu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become a popular solution in SLAM, as it can produce high-fidelity novel views. However, previous GS-based methods primarily target indoor scenes and rely on RGB-D sensors or pre-trained depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Sicheng Yu , Chong Cheng , Yifan Zhou , Xiaojun Yang , Hao Wang