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Achieving real-time Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) based on 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) in large-scale real-world environments remains challenging, as existing methods still struggle to jointly achieve low-latency pose…

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a key component of autonomous systems operating in environments that require a consistent map for reliable localization. SLAM has been a widely studied topic for decades with most of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-23 J. Jorge , T. Barros , C. Premebida , M. Aleksandrov , D. Goehring , U. J. Nunes

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have recently been shown in many computer vision and pattern recog- nition applications to outperform by a significant margin state- of-the-art solutions that use traditional hand-crafted features.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Yi Hou , Hong Zhang , Shilin Zhou

In recent years, visual SLAM has achieved great progress and development, but in complex scenes, especially rotating scenes, the error of mapping will increase significantly, and the slam system is easy to lose track. In this article, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Zhenkun Zhu , Jikai Wang

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

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is one of the most essential techniques in many real-world robotic applications. The assumption of static environments is common in most SLAM algorithms, which however, is not the case for most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Han Wang , Jing Ying Ko , Lihua Xie

Due to budgetary constraints, indoor navigation typically employs 2D LiDAR rather than 3D LiDAR. However, the utilization of 2D LiDAR in Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) frequently encounters challenges related to motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Bin Zhang , Zexin Peng , Bi Zeng , Junjie Lu

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

In this paper, we propose a tightly-coupled, multi-modal simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) framework, integrating an extensive set of sensors: IMU, cameras, multiple lidars, and Ultra-wideband (UWB) range measurements, hence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Thien-Minh Nguyen , Shenghai Yuan , Muqing Cao , Thien Hoang Nguyen , Lihua Xie

Loop closure detection (LCD) is the key module in appearance based simultaneously localization and mapping (SLAM). However, in the real life, the appearance of visual inputs are usually affected by the illumination changes and texture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Peng Yin , Yuqing He , Na Liu , Jianda Han

Neural field-based SLAM methods typically employ a single, monolithic field as their scene representation. This prevents efficient incorporation of loop closure constraints and limits scalability. To address these shortcomings, we propose a…

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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

Vision-based localization for autonomous driving has been of great interest among researchers. When a pre-built 3D map is not available, the techniques of visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) are typically adopted. Due to…

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Object-level Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), which incorporates semantic information for high-level scene understanding, faces challenges of under-constrained optimization due to sparse observations. Prior work has introduced…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yang Jiao , Yiding Qiu , Henrik I. Christensen

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a fundamental task to mobile and aerial robotics. LiDAR based systems have proven to be superior compared to vision based systems due to its accuracy and robustness. In spite of its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Weizhao Shao , Srinivasan Vijayarangan , Cong Li , George Kantor

We propose a novel feature re-identification method for real-time visual-inertial SLAM. The front-end module of the state-of-the-art visual-inertial SLAM methods (e.g. visual feature extraction and matching schemes) relies on feature tracks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Xiongfeng Peng , Zhihua Liu , Qiang Wang , Yun-Tae Kim , Myungjae Jeon

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a crucial component of 6-DoF localization, visual SLAM and structure-from-motion pipelines, tasked to generate an initial list of place match hypotheses by matching global place descriptors. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Ahmad Khaliq , Michael Milford , Sourav Garg

Visual odometry (VO) and SLAM have been using multi-view geometry via local structure from motion for decades. These methods have a slight disadvantage in challenging scenarios such as low-texture images, dynamic scenarios, etc. Meanwhile,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Akankshya Kar , Sajal Maheshwari , Shamit Lal , Vinay Sameer Raja Kad

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a critical capability for autonomous systems. Traditional SLAM approaches, which often rely on visual or LiDAR sensors, face significant challenges in adverse conditions such as low light or…

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