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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

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

3D Gaussian Splatting is a powerful visual representation, providing high-quality and efficient 3D scene reconstruction, but it is crucially dependent on accurate camera poses typically obtained from computationally intensive processes like…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Daniel Yang , Jungseok Hong , John J. Leonard , Yogesh Girdhar

Semantic-aware 3D scene reconstruction is essential for autonomous robots to perform complex interactions. Semantic SLAM, an online approach, integrates pose tracking, geometric reconstruction, and semantic mapping into a unified framework,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zuxing Lu , Xin Yuan , Shaowen Yang , Jingyu Liu , Changyin Sun

Recent advancements in monocular neural depth estimation, particularly those achieved by the UniDepth network, have prompted the investigation of integrating UniDepth within a Gaussian splatting framework for monocular SLAM. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Mostafa Mansour , Ahmed Abdelsalam , Ari Happonen , Jari Porras , Esa Rahtu

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has recently demonstrated promising advancements in RGB-D online dense mapping. Nevertheless, existing methods excessively rely on per-pixel depth cues to perform map densification, which leads to significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Meng Wang , Junyi Wang , Changqun Xia , Chen Wang , Yue Qi

Precise, seamless, and efficient train localization as well as long-term railway environment monitoring is the essential property towards reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety (RAMS) engineering for railroad systems.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Yusheng Wang , Weiwei Song , Yi Zhang , Fei Huang , Zhiyong Tu , Ruoying Li , Shimin Zhang , Yidong Lou

In complex environments, autonomous robot navigation and environmental perception pose higher requirements for SLAM technology. This paper presents a novel method for semantically enhancing 3D point cloud maps with thermal information. By…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Jiajun Sun , Yangyi Ou , Haoyuan Zheng , Chao yang , Yue Ma

3D Gaussian Splatting has emerged as a promising technique for high-quality 3D rendering, leading to increasing interest in integrating 3DGS into realism SLAM systems. However, existing methods face challenges such as Gaussian primitives…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Lizhi Bai , Chunqi Tian , Jun Yang , Siyu Zhang , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

We present a system for keyframe-based dense camera tracking and depth map estimation that is entirely learned. For tracking, we estimate small pose increments between the current camera image and a synthetic viewpoint. This significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Huizhong Zhou , Benjamin Ummenhofer , Thomas Brox

We introduce GeMS, a framework for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) designed to handle severely motion-blurred images. State-of-the-art deblurring methods for extreme blur, such as ExBluRF, as well as Gaussian Splatting-based approaches like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Gopi Raju Matta , Trisha Reddypalli , Vemunuri Divya Madhuri , Kaushik Mitra

Jointly estimating camera poses and mapping scenes from RGBD images is a fundamental task in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). State-of-the-art methods employ 3D Gaussians to represent a scene, and render these Gaussians through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Pengchong Hu , Zhizhong Han

In endoscopy, many applications (e.g., surgical navigation) would benefit from a real-time method that can simultaneously track the endoscope and reconstruct the dense 3D geometry of the observed anatomy from a monocular endoscopic video.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Xingtong Liu , Zhaoshuo Li , Masaru Ishii , Gregory D. Hager , Russell H. Taylor , Mathias Unberath

In this paper, we introduce GS-LIVM, a real-time photo-realistic LiDAR-Inertial-Visual mapping framework with Gaussian Splatting tailored for outdoor scenes. Compared to existing methods based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yusen Xie , Zhenmin Huang , Jin Wu , Jun Ma

The research in dense online 3D mapping is mostly focused on the geometrical accuracy and spatial extent of the reconstructions. Their color appearance is often neglected, leading to inconsistent colors and noticeable artifacts. We rectify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Sergey V. Alexandrov , Johann Prankl , Michael Zillich , Markus Vincze

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,…

We introduce RGS-SLAM, a robust Gaussian-splatting SLAM framework that replaces the residual-driven densification stage of GS-SLAM with a training-free correspondence-to-Gaussian initialization. Instead of progressively adding Gaussians as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Wei-Tse Cheng , Yen-Jen Chiou , Yuan-Fu Yang

We present Smol-GS, a novel method for learning compact representations for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Our approach learns highly efficient splat-wise features to model 3D space which capture abstracted cues, including color, opacity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Haishan Wang , Mohammad Hassan Vali , Arno Solin

We introduce ODE-GS, a novel approach that integrates 3D Gaussian Splatting with latent neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs) to enable future extrapolation of dynamic 3D scenes. Unlike existing dynamic scene reconstruction methods,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Daniel Wang , Patrick Rim , Tian Tian , Dong Lao , Alex Wong , Ganesh Sundaramoorthi

Traditional Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems often face limitations including coarse rendering quality, insufficient recovery of scene details, and poor robustness in dynamic environments. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Li Wang , Ruixuan Gong , Yumo Han , Lei Yang , Lu Yang , Ying Li , Bin Xu , Huaping Liu , Rong Fu