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Monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is emerging in advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving, because a single camera is cheap and easy to install. Conventional monocular SLAM has two major challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Jinkyu Lee , Muhyun Back , Sung Soo Hwang , Il Yong Chun

High-quality reconstruction is crucial for dense SLAM. Recent popular approaches utilize 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D GS) techniques for RGB, depth, and semantic reconstruction of scenes. However, these methods often overlook issues of detail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Zhenzhong Cao , Chenyang Zhao , Qianyi Zhang , Jinzheng Guang , Yinuo Song Jingtai Liu

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

3D Gaussian Splatting has emerged as a powerful representation of geometry and appearance for RGB-only dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), as it provides a compact dense map representation while enabling efficient and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Erik Sandström , Keisuke Tateno , Michael Oechsle , Michael Niemeyer , Luc Van Gool , Martin R. Oswald , Federico Tombari

Current Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) methods based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) or 3D Gaussian Splatting excel in reconstructing static 3D scenes but struggle with tracking and reconstruction in dynamic environments,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Mingrui Li , Yiming Zhou , Hongxing Zhou , Xinggang Hu , Florian Roemer , Hongyu Wang , Ahmad Osman

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

3D Gaussian Splatting has emerged as a promising technique for high-quality 3D rendering, leading to increasing interest in integrating 3DGS into realism SLAM systems. However, existing methods face challenges such as Gaussian primitives…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Lizhi Bai , Chunqi Tian , Jun Yang , Siyu Zhang , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

We present HI-SLAM2, a geometry-aware Gaussian SLAM system that achieves fast and accurate monocular scene reconstruction using only RGB input. Existing Neural SLAM or 3DGS-based SLAM methods often trade off between rendering quality and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Wei Zhang , Qing Cheng , David Skuddis , Niclas Zeller , Daniel Cremers , Norbert Haala

Event cameras offer a promising avenue for multi-view stereo depth estimation and Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) due to their ability to detect blur-free 3D edges at high-speed and over broad illumination conditions. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Diego Hitzges , Suman Ghosh , Guillermo Gallego

The RGB-D camera maintains a limited range for working and is hard to accurately measure the depth information in a far distance. Besides, the RGB-D camera will easily be influenced by strong lighting and other external factors, which will…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Mingyang Geng , Suning Shang , Bo Ding , Huaimin Wang , Pengfei Zhang , Lei Zhang

We propose Unblur-SLAM, a novel RGB SLAM pipeline for sharp 3D reconstruction from blurred image inputs. In contrast to previous work, our approach is able to handle different types of blur and demonstrates state-of-the-art performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Qi Zhang , Denis Rozumny , Francesco Girlanda , Sezer Karaoglu , Marc Pollefeys , Theo Gevers , Martin R. Oswald

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

3D Gaussian Splatting has recently shown promising results as an alternative scene representation in SLAM systems to neural implicit representations. However, current methods either lack dense depth maps to supervise the mapping process or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 F. Aykut Sarikamis , A. Aydin Alatan

In this paper we present NR-SLAM, a novel non-rigid monocular SLAM system founded on the combination of a Dynamic Deformation Graph with a Visco-Elastic deformation model. The former enables our system to represent the dynamics of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Juan J. Gomez Rodriguez , J. M. M Montiel , Juan D. Tardos

Estimating depth from RGB images can facilitate many computer vision tasks, such as indoor localization, height estimation, and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Recently, monocular depth estimation has obtained great progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Qing Li , Jiasong Zhu , Jun Liu , Rui Cao , Qingquan Li , Sen Jia , Guoping Qiu

Neural implicit representations have recently become popular in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), especially in dense visual SLAM. However, previous works in this direction either rely on RGB-D sensors, or require a separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Zihan Zhu , Songyou Peng , Viktor Larsson , Zhaopeng Cui , Martin R. Oswald , Andreas Geiger , Marc Pollefeys

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

Recent progress in dense SLAM has primarily targeted monocular setups, often at the expense of robustness and geometric coverage. We present MCGS-SLAM, the first purely RGB-based multi-camera SLAM system built on 3D Gaussian Splatting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zhihao Cao , Hanyu Wu , Li Wa Tang , Zizhou Luo , Wei Zhang , Marc Pollefeys , Zihan Zhu , Martin R. Oswald

Monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms estimate drone poses and build a 3D map using a single camera. Current algorithms include sparse methods that lack detailed geometry, while learning-driven approaches produce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jeryes Danial , Yosi Ben Asher , Itzik Klein

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has achieved impressive performance in static environments. However, SLAM in dynamic environments remains an open question. Many methods directly filter out dynamic objects, resulting in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Haoang Li , Xiangqi Meng , Xingxing Zuo , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang , Daniel Cremers