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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

With their high-fidelity scene representation capability, the attention of SLAM field is deeply attracted by the Neural Radiation Field (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Recently, there has been a surge in NeRF-based SLAM, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Xinli Guo , Weidong Zhang , Ruonan Liu , Peng Han , Hongtian Chen

Real-time SLAM with dense 3D mapping is computationally challenging, especially on resource-limited devices. The recent development of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) offers a promising approach for real-time dense 3D reconstruction. However,…

Recently, several studies have combined Gaussian Splatting to obtain scene representations with language embeddings for open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding. While these methods perform well, they essentially require very dense multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Jun Hu , Zhang Chen , Zhong Li , Yi Xu , Juyong Zhang

Humans live in a 3D world and commonly use natural language to interact with a 3D scene. Modeling a 3D language field to support open-ended language queries in 3D has gained increasing attention recently. This paper introduces LangSplat,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Minghan Qin , Wanhua Li , Jiawei Zhou , Haoqian Wang , Hanspeter Pfister

DUSt3R-based end-to-end scene reconstruction has recently shown promising results in dense visual SLAM. However, most existing methods only use image pairs to estimate pointmaps, overlooking spatial memory and global consistency.To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Guole Shen , Tianchen Deng , Yanbo Wang , Yongtao Chen , Yilin Shen , Jiuming Liu , Jingchuan Wang

In this letter, we present a neural field-based real-time monocular mapping framework for accurate and dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Recent neural mapping frameworks show promising results, but rely on RGB-D or pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Wei Zhang , Tiecheng Sun , Sen Wang , Qing Cheng , Norbert Haala

We present LatentAM, an online 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) mapping framework that builds scalable latent feature maps from streaming RGB-D observations for open-vocabulary robotic perception. Instead of distilling high-dimensional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Junwoon Lee , Yulun Tian

3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) is a recent 3D scene reconstruction technique that enables real-time rendering of novel views by modeling scenes as parametric point clouds of differentiable 3D Gaussians. However, its rendering speed and model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Alex Hanson , Allen Tu , Geng Lin , Vasu Singla , Matthias Zwicker , Tom Goldstein

Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have made a significant impact on rendering and reconstruction techniques. Current research predominantly focuses on improving rendering performance and reconstruction quality using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yinlong Bai , Hongxin Zhang , Sheng Zhong , Junkai Niu , Hai Li , Yijia He , Yi Zhou

Recent advancements in 3D scene understanding have made significant strides in enabling interaction with scenes using open-vocabulary queries, particularly for VR/AR and robotic applications. Nevertheless, existing methods are hindered by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Dianyi Yang , Xihan Wang , Yu Gao , Shiyang Liu , Bohan Ren , Yufeng Yue , Yi Yang

Gaussian Splatting has rapidly emerged as a transformative technique for real-time 3D scene representation, offering a highly efficient and expressive alternative to Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). Its ability to render complex scenes with…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Mahmoud Chick Zaouali , Todd Charter , Yehor Karpichev , Brandon Haworth , Homayoun Najjaran

We propose Hier-SLAM++, a comprehensive Neuro-Symbolic semantic 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM method with both RGB-D and monocular input featuring an advanced hierarchical categorical representation, which enables accurate pose estimation as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Boying Li , Vuong Chi Hao , Peter J. Stuckey , Ian Reid , Hamid Rezatofighi

In this paper, we introduce LangSplatV2, which achieves high-dimensional feature splatting at 476.2 FPS and 3D open-vocabulary text querying at 384.6 FPS for high-resolution images, providing a 42 $\times$ speedup and a 47 $\times$ boost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Wanhua Li , Yujie Zhao , Minghan Qin , Yang Liu , Yuanhao Cai , Chuang Gan , Hanspeter Pfister

Navigation and mapping on the lunar surface require robust perception under challenging conditions, including poorly textured environments, high-contrast lighting, and limited computational resources. This paper presents a real-time mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Guillem Casadesus Vila , Adam Dai , Grace Gao

3D Gaussian Splatting has recently gained traction for its efficient training and real-time rendering. While its vanilla representation is mainly designed for view synthesis, recent works extended it to scene understanding with language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Siyun Liang , Sen Wang , Kunyi Li , Michael Niemeyer , Stefano Gasperini , Hendrik P. A. Lensch , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

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

Modern vision language pipelines are driven by RGB vision encoders trained on massive image text corpora. While these pipelines have enabled impressive zero-shot capabilities and strong transfer across tasks, they still inherit two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Yasmine Omri , Connor Ding , Tsachy Weissman , Thierry Tambe

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

Mobile robots and IoT devices demand real-time localization and dense reconstruction under tight compute and energy budgets. While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enables efficient dense SLAM, dynamic objects and occlusions still degrade…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Li Zhang , Yu-An Liu , Xijia Jiang , Conghao Huang , Danyang Li , Yanyong Zhang