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Differentiable 3D-Gaussian splatting (GS) is emerging as a prominent technique in computer vision and graphics for reconstructing 3D scenes. GS represents a scene as a set of 3D Gaussians with varying opacities and employs a computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Ziyuan Qu , Omkar Vengurlekar , Mohamad Qadri , Kevin Zhang , Michael Kaess , Christopher Metzler , Suren Jayasuriya , Adithya Pediredla

Place recognition is a crucial component that enables autonomous vehicles to obtain localization results in GPS-denied environments. In recent years, multimodal place recognition methods have gained increasing attention. They overcome the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Zhangshuo Qi , Junyi Ma , Jingyi Xu , Zijie Zhou , Luqi Cheng , Guangming Xiong

Efficient multi-agent 3D mapping is essential for robotic teams operating in unknown environments, but dense representations hinder real-time exchange over constrained communication links. In multi-agent Simultaneous Localization and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Monica M. Q. Li , Pierre-Yves Lajoie , Jialiang Liu , Giovanni Beltrame

This survey comprehensively reviews the evolving field of multi-robot collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). As an explicit scene representation, 3DGS has enabled unprecedented…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Phuc Nguyen Xuan , Thanh Nguyen Canh , Huu-Hung Nguyen , Nak Young Chong , Xiem HoangVan

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

Visuomotor policies learned from teleoperated demonstrations face challenges such as lengthy data collection, high costs, and limited data diversity. Existing approaches address these issues by augmenting image observations in RGB space or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Sizhe Yang , Wenye Yu , Jia Zeng , Jun Lv , Kerui Ren , Cewu Lu , Dahua Lin , Jiangmiao Pang

Novel view synthesis (NVS) and surface reconstruction (SR) are essential tasks in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS). Despite recent progress, these tasks are often addressed independently, with GS-based rendering methods struggling under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Qingyuan Zhou , Yuehu Gong , Weidong Yang , Jiaze Li , Yeqi Luo , Baixin Xu , Shuhao Li , Ben Fei , Ying He

Learning robot manipulation policies from raw, real-world image data requires a large number of robot-action trials in the physical environment. Although training using simulations offers a cost-effective alternative, the visual domain gap…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Yuekun Wu , Yik Lung Pang , Andrea Cavallaro , Changjae Oh

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized neural rendering with its efficiency and quality, but like many novel view synthesis methods, it heavily depends on accurate camera poses from Structure-from-Motion (SfM) systems. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zhisheng Huang , Peng Wang , Jingdong Zhang , Yuan Liu , Xin Li , Wenping Wang

We leverage 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) as a scene representation and propose a novel test-time camera pose refinement (CPR) framework, GS-CPR. This framework enhances the localization accuracy of state-of-the-art absolute pose regression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Changkun Liu , Shuai Chen , Yash Bhalgat , Siyan Hu , Ming Cheng , Zirui Wang , Victor Adrian Prisacariu , Tristan Braud

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is one of the most important environment-perception and navigation algorithms for computer vision, robotics, and autonomous cars/drones. Hence, high quality and fast mapping becomes a fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Runfa Blark Li , Mahdi Shaghaghi , Keito Suzuki , Xinshuang Liu , Varun Moparthi , Bang Du , Walker Curtis , Martin Renschler , Ki Myung Brian Lee , Nikolay Atanasov , Truong Nguyen

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

Recently, the multi-modal fusion of RGB, depth, and semantics has shown great potential in dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). However, a prerequisite for generating consistent semantic maps is the availability of dense,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Linfei Li , Lin Zhang , Zhong Wang , Ying Shen

We propose fast and communication-efficient optimization algorithms for multi-robot rotation averaging and translation estimation problems that arise from collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), structure-from-motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Yulun Tian , Jonathan P. How

We present Real-time Gaussian SLAM (RTG-SLAM), a real-time 3D reconstruction system with an RGBD camera for large-scale environments using Gaussian splatting. The system features a compact Gaussian representation and a highly efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Zhexi Peng , Tianjia Shao , Yong Liu , Jingke Zhou , Yin Yang , Jingdong Wang , Kun Zhou

3D Gaussian Splatting is emerging as a state-of-the-art technique in novel view synthesis, recognized for its impressive balance between visual quality, speed, and rendering efficiency. However, reliance on third-degree spherical harmonics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yiwen Wang , Siyuan Chen , Ran Yi

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a powerful representation for high-quality rendering across a wide range of applications.However, its high computational demands and large storage costs pose significant challenges for deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Xiaobiao Du , Yida Wang , Kun Zhan , Xin Yu

Stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM) extends the concept of single-layer reconfigurable holographic surfaces (RHS) by incorporating a multi-layered structure, thereby providing enhanced control over electromagnetic wave propagation and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Junjie Fang , Chao Zhang , Jiancheng An , Hongwen Yu , Qingqing Wu , Mérouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has attracted widespread attention due to its high-quality rendering, and ultra-fast training and rendering speed. However, due to the unstructured and irregular nature of Gaussian point clouds, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Danpeng Chen , Hai Li , Weicai Ye , Yifan Wang , Weijian Xie , Shangjin Zhai , Nan Wang , Haomin Liu , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has gained significant attention for its application in dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), enabling real-time rendering and high-fidelity mapping. However, existing 3DGS-based SLAM methods often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Ziheng Xu , Qingfeng Li , Chen Chen , Xuefeng Liu , Jianwei Niu