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Neural implicit representations have recently shown encouraging results in various domains, including promising progress in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Nevertheless, existing methods produce over-smoothed scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Zihan Zhu , Songyou Peng , Viktor Larsson , Weiwei Xu , Hujun Bao , Zhaopeng Cui , Martin R. Oswald , Marc Pollefeys

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a critical task that enables autonomous vehicles to construct maps and localize themselves in unknown environments. Recent breakthroughs combine SLAM with 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Houshu He , Naifeng Jing , Li Jiang , Xiaoyao Liang , Zhuoran Song

Neural implicit fields have recently emerged as a powerful representation method for multi-view surface reconstruction due to their simplicity and state-of-the-art performance. However, reconstructing thin structures of indoor scenes while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Shaoxiang Wang , Yaxu Xie , Chun-Peng Chang , Christen Millerdurai , Alain Pagani , Didier Stricker

We introduce MUTE-SLAM, a real-time neural RGB-D SLAM system employing multiple tri-plane hash-encodings for efficient scene representation. MUTE-SLAM effectively tracks camera positions and incrementally builds a scalable multi-map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yifan Yan , Ruomin He , Zhenghua Liu

3D Gaussian Splatting algorithms excel in novel view rendering applications and have been adapted to extend the capabilities of traditional SLAM systems. However, current Gaussian Splatting SLAM methods, designed mainly for hand-held RGB or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Zunjie Zhu , Youxu Fang , Xin Li , Chengang Yan , Feng Xu , Chau Yuen , Yanyan Li

We propose a method to enhance 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)~\cite{Kerbl2023}, addressing challenges in initialization, optimization, and density control. Gaussian Splatting is an alternative for rendering realistic images while supporting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Xingjun Wang , Lianlei Shan

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become a popular solution in SLAM due to its high-fidelity and real-time novel view synthesis performance. However, some previous 3DGS SLAM methods employ a differentiable rendering pipeline for tracking,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Chong Cheng , Sicheng Yu , Zijian Wang , Yifan Zhou , Hao Wang

Existing NeRF-based methods for large scene reconstruction often have limitations in visual quality and rendering speed. While the recent 3D Gaussian Splatting works well on small-scale and object-centric scenes, scaling it up to large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Jiaqi Lin , Zhihao Li , Xiao Tang , Jianzhuang Liu , Shiyong Liu , Jiayue Liu , Yangdi Lu , Xiaofei Wu , Songcen Xu , Youliang Yan , Wenming Yang

Recently, 3D Gaussian splatting has gained attention for its capability to generate high-fidelity rendering results. At the same time, most applications such as games, animation, and AR/VR use mesh-based representations to represent and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Jaehoon Choi , Yonghan Lee , Hyungtae Lee , Heesung Kwon , Dinesh Manocha

In recent years, coordinate-based neural implicit representations have shown promising results for the task of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). While achieving impressive performance on small synthetic scenes, these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Kunyi Li , Michael Niemeyer , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently gained popularity for efficient scene rendering by representing scenes as explicit sets of anisotropic 3D Gaussians. However, most existing work focuses primarily on modeling external surfaces. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Shuxin Liang , Yihan Xiao , Wenlu Tang

Blending representation learning approaches with simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems is an open question, because of their highly modular and complex nature. Functionally, SLAM is an operation that transforms raw sensor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula , Soroush Saryazdi , Ganesh Iyer , Liam Paull

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have focused on accelerating optimization while preserving reconstruction quality. However, many proposed methods entangle implementation-level improvements with fundamental algorithmic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Florian Hahlbohm , Linus Franke , Martin Eisemann , Marcus Magnor

State-of-the-art methods for large-scale 3D reconstruction from RGB-D sensors usually reduce drift in camera tracking by globally optimizing the estimated camera poses in real-time without simultaneously updating the reconstructed surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Robert Maier , Raphael Schaller , Daniel Cremers

Monocular Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) aims to estimate a robot's pose while simultaneously reconstructing an unknown 3D scene using a single camera. While existing monocular SLAM systems generate detailed 3D geometry…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yuchen Zhou , Haihang Wu

When an agent, person, vehicle or robot is moving through an unknown environment without GNSS signals, online mapping of nonlinear terrains can be used to improve position estimates when the agent returns to a previously mapped area.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Frida Marie Viset , Rudy Helmons , Manon Kok

The integration of neural rendering and the SLAM system recently showed promising results in joint localization and photorealistic view reconstruction. However, existing methods, fully relying on implicit representations, are so…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Huajian Huang , Longwei Li , Hui Cheng , Sai-Kit Yeung

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has been crucial across various domains, including autonomous driving, mobile robotics, and mixed reality. Dense visual SLAM, leveraging RGB-D camera systems, offers advantages but faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Hongbeen Park , Minjeong Park , Giljoo Nam , Jinkyu Kim

High-fidelity 3D reconstruction of common indoor scenes is crucial for VR and AR applications. 3D Gaussian splatting, a novel differentiable rendering technique, has achieved state-of-the-art novel view synthesis results with high rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Matias Turkulainen , Xuqian Ren , Iaroslav Melekhov , Otto Seiskari , Esa Rahtu , Juho Kannala

This paper presents a collaborative implicit neural simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system with RGB-D image sequences, which consists of complete front-end and back-end modules including odometry, loop detection, sub-map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Jiarui Hu , Mao Mao , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui