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The application of monocular dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is often hindered by high latency, large GPU memory consumption, and reliance on camera calibration. To relax this constraint, we propose EC3R-SLAM, a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Lingxiang Hu , Naima Ait Oufroukh , Fabien Bonardi , Raymond Ghandour

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in highly dynamic environments is challenging due to the correlation complexity between moving objects and the camera pose. Many methods have been proposed to deal with this problem; however, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Tuan Dang , Khang Nguyen , Mandfred Huber

We present a real-time tracking SLAM system that unifies efficient camera tracking with photorealistic feature-enriched mapping using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Our main contribution is integrating dense feature rasterization into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Christopher Thirgood , Oscar Mendez , Erin Ling , Jon Storey , Simon Hadfield

Visual simultaneous localization and mapping (V-SLAM) is a fundamental capability for autonomous perception and navigation. However, endoscopic scenes violate the rigidity assumption due to persistent soft-tissue deformations, creating a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Jiwei Shan , Zeyu Cai , Yirui Li , Yongbo Chen , Lijun Han , Yun-hui Liu , Hesheng Wang , Shing Shin Cheng

This work presents a novel dense RGB-D SLAM approach for dynamic planar environments that enables simultaneous multi-object tracking, camera localisation and background reconstruction. Previous dynamic SLAM methods either rely on semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Ran Long , Christian Rauch , Tianwei Zhang , Vladimir Ivan , Tin Lun Lam , Sethu Vijayakumar

The existence of variable factors within the environment can cause a decline in camera localization accuracy, as it violates the fundamental assumption of a static environment in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Ghanta Sai Krishna , Kundrapu Supriya , Sabur Baidya

We present a real-time monocular dense SLAM system designed bottom-up from MASt3R, a two-view 3D reconstruction and matching prior. Equipped with this strong prior, our system is robust on in-the-wild video sequences despite making no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Riku Murai , Eric Dexheimer , Andrew J. Davison

Leveraging neural implicit representation to conduct dense RGB-D SLAM has been studied in recent years. However, this approach relies on a static environment assumption and does not work robustly within a dynamic environment due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Haochen Jiang , Yueming Xu , Kejie Li , Jianfeng Feng , Li Zhang

We present a mapping system capable of constructing detailed instance-level semantic models of room-sized indoor environments by means of an RGB-D camera. In this work, we integrate deep-learning-based instance segmentation and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Dinh-Cuong Hoang , Todor Stoyanov , Achim J. Lilienthal

Visual SLAM systems targeting static scenes have been developed with satisfactory accuracy and robustness. Dynamic 3D object tracking has then become a significant capability in visual SLAM with the requirement of understanding dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Hanwei Zhang , Hideaki Uchiyama , Shintaro Ono , Hiroshi Kawasaki

In this letter, we present a neural field-based real-time monocular mapping framework for accurate and dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Recent neural mapping frameworks show promising results, but rely on RGB-D or pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Wei Zhang , Tiecheng Sun , Sen Wang , Qing Cheng , Norbert Haala

Monocular visual SLAM enables 3D reconstruction from internet video and autonomous navigation on resource-constrained platforms, yet suffers from scale drift, i.e., the gradual divergence of estimated scale over long sequences. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yuchen Wu , Jiahe Li , Xiaohan Yu , Lina Yu , Jin Zheng , Xiao Bai

This paper reports on a robust RGB-D SLAM system that performs well in scarcely textured and structured environments. We present a novel keyframe-based continuous visual odometry that builds on the recently developed continuous sensor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Xi Lin , Dingyi Sun , Tzu-Yuan Lin , Ryan M. Eustice , Maani Ghaffari

Recently, 3D Gaussian splatting-based RGB-D SLAM displays remarkable performance of high-fidelity 3D reconstruction. However, the lack of depth rendering consistency and efficient loop closure limits the quality of its geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xingguang Zhong , Yue Pan , Liren Jin , Marija Popović , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Visual SLAM in dynamic environments remains challenging, as several existing methods rely on semantic filtering that only handles known object classes, or use fixed robust kernels that cannot adapt to unknown moving objects, leading to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-21 João Carlos Virgolino Soares , Gabriel Fischer Abati , Claudio Semini

In this paper, a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method that eliminates the influence of moving objects in dynamic environments is proposed. This method utilizes the correlation between map points to separate points that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Weichen Dai , Yu Zhang , Ping Li , Zheng Fang , Sebastian Scherer

Existing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms are not robust in challenging low-texture environments because there are only few salient features. The resulting sparse or semi-dense map also conveys little information for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Shichao Yang , Yu Song , Michael Kaess , Sebastian Scherer

This paper addresses the problem of scale estimation in monocular SLAM by estimating absolute distances between camera centers of consecutive image frames. These estimates would improve the overall performance of classical (not deep) SLAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Danila Rukhovich , Daniel Mouritzen , Ralf Kaestner , Martin Rufli , Alexander Velizhev

We present ESLAM, an efficient implicit neural representation method for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). ESLAM reads RGB-D frames with unknown camera poses in a sequential manner and incrementally reconstructs the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Mohammad Mahdi Johari , Camilla Carta , François Fleuret

Visual SLAM algorithms achieve significant improvements through the exploration of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) representations, particularly in generating high-fidelity dense maps. However, they depend on a static environment assumption…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yi Liu , Haoxuan Xu , Hongbo Duan , Keyu Fan , Zhengyang Zhang , Peiyu Zhuang , Pengting Luo , Houde Liu