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We present a dense simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method that uses 3D Gaussians as a scene representation. Our approach enables interactive-time reconstruction and photo-realistic rendering from real-world single-camera RGBD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Vladimir Yugay , Yue Li , Theo Gevers , Martin R. Oswald

Simultaneous mapping and localization (SLAM) in an real indoor environment is still a challenging task. Traditional SLAM approaches rely heavily on low-level geometric constraints like corners or lines, which may lead to tracking failure in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Xueyang Kang , Shunying Yuan

The concept of continuous-time trajectory representation has brought increased accuracy and efficiency to multi-modal sensor fusion in modern SLAM. However, regardless of these advantages, its offline property caused by the requirement of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Chanoh Park , Peyman Moghadam , Soohwan Kim , Alberto Elfes , Clinton Fookes , Sridha Sridharan

Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication (SpMM) is a fundamental operation in graph computing and analytics. However, the irregularity of real-world graphs poses significant challenges to achieving efficient SpMM operation for graph data on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Zhonggen Li , Xiangyu Ke , Yifan Zhu , Yunjun Gao , Yaofeng Tu

Matlab is very widely used in scientific computing, but Matlab computational efficiency is lower than C language program. In order to improve the computing speed, some toolbox can use GPU to accelerate the computation. This paper describes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Mingzhe Wang , Bo Wang , Qiu He , Xiuxiu Liu , Kunshuai Zhu

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a crucial functionality for exploration robots and virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR) devices. However, some of such devices with limited resources cannot afford the computational or memory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Yetong Zhang , Ming Hsiao , Yipu Zhao , Jing Dong , Jakob J. Enge

The growth of large language models (LLMs) increases challenges of accelerating distributed training across multiple GPUs in different data centers. Moreover, concerns about data privacy and data exhaustion have heightened interest in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zhenheng Tang , Zichen Tang , Junlin Huang , Xinglin Pan , Rudan Yan , Yuxin Wang , Amelie Chi Zhou , Shaohuai Shi , Xiaowen Chu , Bo Li

Modern LLM serving systems confront inefficient GPU utilization due to the fundamental mismatch between compute-intensive prefill and memory-bound decode phases. While current practices attempt to address this by organizing these phases…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zejia Lin , Hongxin Xu , Guanyi Chen , Zhiguang Chen , Yutong Lu , Xianwei Zhang

With the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence, the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) has become increasingly essential across a growing number of safety-critical application domains. Applying a GPU is indispensable for parallel…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yuanhai Zhang , Songyang He , Ruizhe Gou , Mingyue Cui , Boyang Li , Shuai Zhao , Kai Huang

Simulations of physical phenomena are essential to the expedient design of precision components in aerospace and other high-tech industries. These phenomena are often described by mathematical models involving partial differential equations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 Daniel Magee , Kyle E Niemeyer

Accurate and robust pose estimation is a key requirement for any autonomous robot. We present cuVSLAM, a state-of-the-art solution for visual simultaneous localization and mapping, which can operate with a variety of visual-inertial sensor…

This work is dedicated to simultaneous continuous-time trajectory estimation and mapping based on Gaussian Processes (GP). State-of-the-art GP-based models for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) are computationally efficient but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Yermek Kapushev , Anastasia Kishkun , Gonzalo Ferrer , Evgeny Burnaev

Simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) is the problem of autonomous robots to construct or update a map of an undetermined unstructured environment while simultaneously estimate the pose in it. The current trend towards self-driving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-14 B. Udugama

We propose a dense neural simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) approach for monocular RGBD input which anchors the features of a neural scene representation in a point cloud that is iteratively generated in an input-dependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Erik Sandström , Yue Li , Luc Van Gool , Martin R. Oswald

Keyframes are LiDAR scans saved for future reference in Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM), but despite their central importance most algorithms leave choices of which scans to save and how to use them to wasteful heuristics. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 David Thorne , Nathan Chan , Yanlong Ma , Christa S. Robison , Philip R. Osteen , Brett T. Lopez

This paper presents a robust approach for a visual parallel tracking and mapping (PTAM) system that excels in challenging environments. Our proposed method combines the strengths of heterogeneous multi-modal visual sensors, including stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Abanob Soliman , Fabien Bonardi , Désiré Sidibé , Samia Bouchafa

Many techniques in program synthesis, superoptimization, and array programming require parallel rollouts of general-purpose programs. GPUs, while capable targets for domain-specific parallelism, are traditionally underutilized by such…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Breandan Considine

Serving deep neural networks in latency critical interactive settings often requires GPU acceleration. However, the small batch sizes typical in online inference results in poor GPU utilization, a potential performance gap which GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Paras Jain , Xiangxi Mo , Ajay Jain , Harikaran Subbaraj , Rehan Sohail Durrani , Alexey Tumanov , Joseph Gonzalez , Ion Stoica

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has been a hot research field in the past years. Against the backdrop of more affordable 3D LiDAR sensors, research on 3D LiDAR SLAM is becoming increasingly popular. Furthermore, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Ziqi Chai , Xiaoyu Shi , Yan Zhou , Zhenhua Xiong

This paper discusses opportunities to parallelize graph based path planning algorithms in a time varying environment. Parallel architectures have become commonplace, requiring algorithm to be parallelized for efficient execution. An…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Mike Eichhorn , Ulrich Kremer