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Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system typically employ vision-based sensors to observe the surrounding environment. However, the performance of such systems highly depends on the ambient illumination conditions. In scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Muhamad Risqi U. Saputra , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Pedro P. B. de Gusmao , Bing Wang , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) plays a crucial role in autonomous systems. Traditional SLAM methods, based on static environment assumptions, struggle to handle complex dynamic environments. Recent dynamic SLAM systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Haolan Zhang , Thanh Nguyen Canh , Chenghao Li , Ruidong Yang , Yonghoon Ji , Nak Young Chong

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

Visual SLAM has regained attention due to its ability to provide perceptual capabilities and simulation test data for Embodied AI. However, traditional SLAM methods struggle to meet the demands of high-quality scene reconstruction, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Fan Zhu , Yifan Zhao , Ziyu Chen , Biao Yu , Hui Zhu

Successful visual navigation depends upon capturing images that contain sufficient useful information. In this letter, we explore a data-driven approach to account for environmental lighting changes, improving the quality of images for use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Justin Tomasi , Brandon Wagstaff , Steven L. Waslander , Jonathan Kelly

Considering the scene's dynamics is the most effective solution to obtain an accurate perception of unknown environments for real vSLAM applications. Most existing methods attempt to address the non-rigid scene assumption by combining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Ayman Beghdadi , Malik Mallem , Lotfi Beji

Visual SLAM algorithms have been enhanced through the exploration of Gaussian Splatting representations, particularly in generating high-fidelity dense maps. While existing methods perform reliably in static environments, they often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yi Liu , Keyu Fan , Bin Lan , Houde Liu

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

According to experts, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is an intrinsic part of autonomous robotic systems. Several SLAM systems with impressive performance have been invented and used during the last several decades. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Ali Eslamian , Mohammad R. Ahmadzadeh

Despite advancements in SLAM technologies, robust operation under challenging conditions such as low-texture, motion-blur, or challenging lighting remains an open challenge. Such conditions are common in applications such as assistive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Marziyeh Bamdad , Hans-Peter Hutter , Alireza Darvishy

Recent research on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) based on implicit representation has shown promising results in indoor environments. However, there are still some challenges: the limited scene representation capability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Wenhua Wu , Guangming Wang , Ting Deng , Sebastian Aegidius , Stuart Shanks , Valerio Modugno , Dimitrios Kanoulas , Hesheng Wang

Conventional geometry-based SLAM systems lack dense 3D reconstruction capabilities since their data association usually relies on feature correspondences. Additionally, learning-based SLAM systems often fall short in terms of real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Zhongche Qu , Zhi Zhang , Cong Liu , Jianhua Yin

The traditional visual-inertial SLAM system often struggles with stability under low-light or motion-blur conditions, leading to potential lost of trajectory tracking. High accuracy and robustness are essential for the long-term and stable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Hongkun Luo , Yang Liu , Chi Guo , Zengke Li , Weiwei Song

Thermal cameras offer several advantages for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with mobile robots: they provide a passive, low-power solution to operating in darkness, are invariant to rapidly changing or high dynamic range…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Spencer Carmichael , Katherine A. Skinner

Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is a task to estimate the robot location and to reconstruct the environment based on observation from sensors such as LIght Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) and camera. It is widely used in robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Han Wang , Chen Wang , Lihua Xie

In this paper, we introduce \textbf{GS-SLAM} that first utilizes 3D Gaussian representation in the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system. It facilitates a better balance between efficiency and accuracy. Compared to recent SLAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Chi Yan , Delin Qu , Dan Xu , Bin Zhao , Zhigang Wang , Dong Wang , Xuelong Li

In this paper, we present a real-time photo-realistic SLAM method based on marrying Gaussian Splatting with LiDAR-Inertial-Camera SLAM. Most existing radiance-field-based SLAM systems mainly focus on bounded indoor environments, equipped…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Xiaolei Lang , Laijian Li , Chenming Wu , Chen Zhao , Lina Liu , Yong Liu , Jiajun Lv , Xingxing Zuo

Loop closure is necessary for correcting errors accumulated in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in unknown environments. However, conventional loop closure methods based on low-level geometric or image features may cause high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Zhentian Qian , Jie Fu , Jing Xiao

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has shown promising results for 3D scene modeling using mixtures of Gaussians, yet its existing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) variants typically rely on direct, deterministic pose optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yuhan Zhu , Yanyu Zhang , Jie Xu , Wei Ren

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) with 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables fast, differentiable rendering and high-fidelity reconstruction across diverse real-world scenes. However, existing 3DGS-SLAM approaches handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Anh Thuan Tran , Jana Kosecka