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This letter introduces a novel framework for dense Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM) based on Gaussian Splatting. Recently, SLAM based on Gaussian Splatting has shown promising results. However, in monocular scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Pengcheng Zhu , Yaoming Zhuang , Baoquan Chen , Li Li , Chengdong Wu , Zhanlin Liu

The rapid growth of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized neural rendering, enabling real-time production of high-quality renderings. However, the previous 3DGS-based methods have limitations in urban scenes due to reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zhuopeng Li , Yilin Zhang , Chenming Wu , Jianke Zhu , Liangjun Zhang

In recent years, 3D Gaussian splatting (3D-GS) has emerged as a novel scene representation approach. However, existing vision-only 3D-GS methods often rely on hand-crafted heuristics for point-cloud densification and face challenges in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Sheng Hong , Chunran Zheng , Yishu Shen , Changze Li , Fu Zhang , Tong Qin , Shaojie Shen

Side-scan sonar (SSS) is a lightweight acoustic sensor that is frequently deployed on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to provide high-resolution seafloor images. However, using side-scan images to perform simultaneous localization and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Jun Zhang , Yiping Xie , Li Ling , John Folkesson

3D Gaussian splatting (3D-GS) has recently revolutionized novel view synthesis in the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. However, most existing algorithms fail to fully capture the underlying structure, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Tianci Wen , Zhiang Liu , Yongchun Fang

Reliable perception is essential for autonomous driving systems to operate safely under diverse real-world traffic conditions. However, camera- and LiDAR-based perception systems suffer from performance degradation under adverse weather and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yue Sun , Yeqiang Qian , Zhe Wang , Tianhui Li , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang

In this paper, a complete framework for Autonomous Self Driving is implemented. LIDAR, Camera and IMU sensors are used together. The entire data communication is managed using Robot Operating System which provides a robust platform for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Rahul M K , Sumukh B , Praveen L Uppunda , Vinayaka Raju , C Gururaj

Simulation models for perception sensors are integral components of automotive simulators used for the virtual Verification and Validation (V\&V) of Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS). These models also serve as powerful tools for generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Hamed Haghighi , Mehrdad Dianati , Valentina Donzella , Kurt Debattista

Recently, the multi-modal fusion of RGB, depth, and semantics has shown great potential in dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). However, a prerequisite for generating consistent semantic maps is the availability of dense,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Linfei Li , Lin Zhang , Zhong Wang , Ying Shen

Feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting methods have achieved impressive reconstruction quality for autonomous driving scenes, yet they entangle scene geometry with transient appearance properties such as lighting, weather, and time of day. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Quentin Herau , Tianshuo Xu , Depu Meng , Jiezhi Yang , Chensheng Peng , Spencer Sherk , Yihan Hu , Wei Zhan

Driven by the emergence of Controllable Video Diffusion, existing Sim2Real methods for autonomous driving video generation typically rely on explicit intermediate representations to bridge the domain gap. However, these modalities face a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xuyang Chen , Conglang Zhang , Chuanheng Fu , Zihao Yang , Kaixuan Zhou , Yizhi Zhang , Jianan He , Yanfeng Zhang , Mingwei Sun , Zengmao Wang , Zhen Dong , Xiaoxiao Long , Liqiu Meng

The NGSIM trajectory data sets provide longitudinal and lateral positional information for all vehicles in certain spatiotemporal regions. Velocity and acceleration information cannot be extracted directly since the noise in the NGSIM…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-03-13 Christian Thiemann , Martin Treiber , Arne Kesting

Current state of the art solutions in the control of an autonomous vehicle mainly use supervised end-to-end learning, or decoupled perception, planning and action pipelines. Another possible solution is deep reinforcement learning, but such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Bogdan Trasnea , Andrei Vasilcoi , Claudiu Pozna , Sorin Grigorescu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) allows flexible adjustments to scene representation, enabling continuous optimization of scene quality during dense visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in static environments. However, 3DGS faces…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Long Wen , Shixin Li , Yu Zhang , Yuhong Huang , Jianjie Lin , Fengjunjie Pan , Zhenshan Bing , Alois Knoll

Multimodal image fusion and semantic segmentation are critical for autonomous driving. Despite advancements, current models often struggle with segmenting densely packed elements due to a lack of comprehensive fusion features for guidance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Daixun Li , Weiying Xie , Mingxiang Cao , Yunke Wang , Yusi Zhang , Leyuan Fang , Yunsong Li , Chang Xu

We introduce Dynamic Gaussian Splatting SLAM (DGS-SLAM), the first dynamic SLAM framework built on the foundation of Gaussian Splatting. While recent advancements in dense SLAM have leveraged Gaussian Splatting to enhance scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Mangyu Kong , Jaewon Lee , Seongwon Lee , Euntai Kim

While self-supervised pretraining has reduced vision systems' reliance on synthetic data, simulation remains an indispensable tool for closed-loop optimization and rigorous out-of-distribution (OOD) evaluation. However, modern simulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Wufei Ma , Chloe Wang , Siyi Chen , Jiawei Peng , Patrick Li , Alan Yuille

Dynamic 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) extends static 3DGS to render dynamic scenes, enabling AR/VR applications with moving objects. However, implementing dynamic 3DGS on edge devices faces challenges: (1) Loading all Gaussian parameters…

Sand painting is a process-driven art where visual appearance emerges from granular accumulation. Given a single image, reconstructing a plausible sand painting process requires modeling coherent stroke structures and material-dependent…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yilin Wang , Haojie Huang , Chen Li , Yang Li , Changbo Wang , Chenhui Li

The last decades have witnessed the breakthrough of autonomous vehicles (AVs), and the perception capabilities of AVs have been dramatically improved. Various sensors installed on AVs, including, but are not limited to, LiDAR, radar, camera…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-08 Wei Ma , Sean Qian