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The 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)-based SLAM system has garnered widespread attention due to its excellent performance in real-time high-fidelity rendering. However, in real-world environments with dynamic objects, existing 3DGS-based SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Mingrui Li , Weijian Chen , Na Cheng , Jingyuan Xu , Dong Li , Hongyu Wang

Gaussian Splatting SLAM (GS-SLAM) offers a notable improvement over traditional SLAM methods, enabling photorealistic 3D reconstruction that conventional approaches often struggle to achieve. However, existing GS-SLAM systems perform poorly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Siyu Chen , Shenghai Yuan , Thien-Minh Nguyen , Zhuyu Huang , Chenyang Shi , Jin Jing , Lihua Xie

Real-time 3D reconstruction is crucial for robotics and augmented reality, yet current simultaneous localization and mapping(SLAM) approaches often struggle to maintain structural consistency and robust pose estimation in the presence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xu Wang , Boyao Han , Xiaojun Chen , Ying Liu , Ruihui Li

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

Recent work has shown that 3D Gaussian-based SLAM enables high-quality reconstruction, accurate pose estimation, and real-time rendering of scenes. However, these approaches are built on a tremendous number of redundant 3D Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Tianchen Deng , Chang Nie , Shuhong Liu , Wenhua Wu , Jianfei Yang , Shenghai Yuan , Jiuming Liu , Danwei Wang , Hesheng Wang

We propose $S^3$LAM, a novel RGB-D SLAM system that leverages 2D surfel splatting to achieve highly accurate geometric representations for simultaneous tracking and mapping. Unlike existing 3DGS-based SLAM approaches that rely on 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ruoyu Fan , Yuhui Wen , Jiajia Dai , Tao Zhang , Long Zeng , Yong-jin Liu

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

In this paper, we address common error sources for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) including blur, imperfect camera poses, and color inconsistencies, with the goal of improving its robustness for practical applications like reconstructions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 François Darmon , Lorenzo Porzi , Samuel Rota-Bulò , Peter Kontschieder

We propose NEDS-SLAM, a dense semantic SLAM system based on 3D Gaussian representation, that enables robust 3D semantic mapping, accurate camera tracking, and high-quality rendering in real-time. In the system, we propose a Spatially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yiming Ji , Yang Liu , Guanghu Xie , Boyu Ma , Zongwu Xie

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become a popular solution in SLAM, as it can produce high-fidelity novel views. However, previous GS-based methods primarily target indoor scenes and rely on RGB-D sensors or pre-trained depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Sicheng Yu , Chong Cheng , Yifan Zhou , Xiaojun Yang , Hao Wang

Emerging 3D scene representations, such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), have demonstrated their effectiveness in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) for photo-realistic rendering, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Peng Wang , Lingzhe Zhao , Yin Zhang , Shiyu Zhao , Peidong Liu

3D Gaussian Splatting has recently shown promising results in dense visual SLAM. However, existing 3DGS-based SLAM methods are all constrained to small-room scenarios and struggle with memory explosion in large-scale scenes and long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Tianchen Deng , Wenhua Wu , Junjie He , Yue Pan , Shenghai Yuan , Danwei Wang , Hesheng Wang

We propose GauS-SLAM, a dense RGB-D SLAM system that leverages 2D Gaussian surfels to achieve robust tracking and high-fidelity mapping. Our investigations reveal that Gaussian-based scene representations exhibit geometry distortion under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yongxin Su , Lin Chen , Kaiting Zhang , Zhongliang Zhao , Chenfeng Hou , Ziping Yu

The limited robustness of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) to motion blur and camera noise, along with its poor real-time performance, restricts its application in robotic SLAM tasks. Upon analysis, the primary causes of these issues are the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Peifeng Jiang , Hong Liu , Xia Li , Ti Wang , Fabian Zhang , Joachim M. Buhmann

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) technology has recently achieved photorealistic mapping capabilities thanks to the real-time, high-fidelity rendering enabled by 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). However, due to the static…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhicong Sun , Jacqueline Lo , Jinxing Hu

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

We propose a method to enhance 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)~\cite{Kerbl2023}, addressing challenges in initialization, optimization, and density control. Gaussian Splatting is an alternative for rendering realistic images while supporting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Xingjun Wang , Lianlei Shan

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a powerful representation of geometry and appearance for dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Through rapid, differentiable rasterization of 3D Gaussians, many 3DGS SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xulang Liu , Ning Tan

While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized real-time photorealistic view synthesis, its fundamental reliance on symmetric Gaussian distributions introduces visual artifacts that hinder accurate spatial data exploration.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Beizhen Zhao , Yifan Zhou , Gaochao Song , Ziran Yin , Hao Wang