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In this paper we present a complete SLAM system for RGB-D cameras, namely RGB-iD SLAM. The presented approach is a dense direct SLAM method with the main characteristic of working with the depth maps in inverse depth parametrisation for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Daniel Gutierrez-Gomez , Jose J. Guerrero

Image representation is a fundamental task in computer vision. Recently, Gaussian Splatting has emerged as an efficient representation framework, and its extension to 2D image representation enables lightweight, yet expressive modeling of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Masaya Takabe , Hiroshi Watanabe , Sujun Hong , Tomohiro Ikai , Zheming Fan , Ryo Ishimoto , Kakeru Sugimoto , Ruri Imichi

Mapping and localization are crucial problems in robotics and autonomous driving. Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled precise 3D mapping and scene understanding by rendering photo-realistic images. However, existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jaewon Lee , Mangyu Kong , Minseong Park , Euntai Kim

Differentiable 3D Gaussian splatting has emerged as an efficient and flexible rendering technique for representing complex scenes from a collection of 2D views and enabling high-quality real-time novel-view synthesis. However, its reliance…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Meenakshi Krishnan , Liam Fowl , Ramani Duraiswami

In this paper, we address common error sources for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) including blur, imperfect camera poses, and color inconsistencies, with the goal of improving its robustness for practical applications like reconstructions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 François Darmon , Lorenzo Porzi , Samuel Rota-Bulò , Peter Kontschieder

Gaussian Splatting (GS) has gained attention as a fast and effective method for novel view synthesis. It has also been applied to 3D reconstruction using multi-view images and can achieve fast and accurate 3D reconstruction. However, GS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Natsuki Takama , Shintaro Ito , Koichi Ito , Hwann-Tzong Chen , Takafumi Aoki

In this paper, we challenge the conventional notion in 3DGS-SLAM that rendering quality is the primary determinant of tracking accuracy. We argue that, compared to solely pursuing a perfect scene representation, it is more critical to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Shouhe Zhang , Dayong Ren , Sensen Song , Wenjie Li , Piaopiao Yu , Yurong Qian

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

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

Scene reconstruction has emerged as a central challenge in computer vision, with approaches such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and Gaussian Splatting achieving remarkable progress. While Gaussian Splatting demonstrates strong performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Alexander Valverde , Brian Xu , Yuyin Zhou , Meng Xu , Hongyun Wang

Handling the dynamic environments is a significant research challenge in Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Recent research combines 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) with SLAM to achieve both robust camera pose estimation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yunsong Wang , Gim Hee Lee

Mobile robots and IoT devices demand real-time localization and dense reconstruction under tight compute and energy budgets. While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables efficient dense SLAM, dynamic objects and occlusions still degrade…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Li Zhang , Yu-An Liu , Xijia Jiang , Conghao Huang , Danyang Li , Yanyong Zhang

In this paper, we introduce GS-LIVM, a real-time photo-realistic LiDAR-Inertial-Visual mapping framework with Gaussian Splatting tailored for outdoor scenes. Compared to existing methods based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yusen Xie , Zhenmin Huang , Jin Wu , Jun Ma

3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) has recently attracted great attention with real-time and photo-realistic renderings. This technique typically takes perspective images as input and optimizes a set of 3D elliptical Gaussians by splatting them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Jiayang Bai , Letian Huang , Jie Guo , Wen Gong , Yuanqi Li , Yanwen Guo

Recently, 2D Gaussian Splatting (2DGS) has demonstrated superior geometry reconstruction quality than the popular 3DGS by using 2D surfels to approximate thin surfaces. However, it falls short when dealing with glossy surfaces, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Yixin Yang , Yang Zhou , Hui Huang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) effectively synthesizes novel views through its flexible representation, yet fails to accurately reconstruct scene geometry. While modern variants like PGSR introduce additional losses to ensure proper depth and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Zhentao Huang , Di Wu , Zhenbang He , Minglun Gong

Recent advancements in neural rendering, particularly 2D Gaussian Splatting (2DGS), have shown promising results for jointly reconstructing fine appearance and geometry by leveraging 2D Gaussian surfels. However, current methods face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yunzhou Song , Heguang Lin , Jiahui Lei , Lingjie Liu , Kostas Daniilidis

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a fast, high-quality method for novel view synthesis (NVS). However, its use of low-degree spherical harmonics limits its ability to capture spatially varying color and view-dependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Hoang Chuong Nguyen , Wei Mao , Jose M. Alvarez , Miaomiao Liu

Recent 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) methods have demonstrated the feasibility of self-driving scene reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, most existing methods either rely solely on cameras or use LiDAR only for Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 ZY Chen , F Zhu , H Zhu , DY Kong , XK Kuang , YJ Zhang , CM Jiang

Reconstructing high-fidelity underwater scenes remains a challenging task due to light absorption, scattering, and limited visibility inherent in aquatic environments. This paper presents an enhanced Gaussian Splatting-based framework that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhuodong Jiang , Haoran Wang , Guoxi Huang , Brett Seymour , Nantheera Anantrasirichai