English
Related papers

Related papers: AI-enhanced Direct SLAM: A Principled Approach to …

200 papers

Successful visual navigation depends upon capturing images that contain sufficient useful information. In this letter, we explore a data-driven approach to account for environmental lighting changes, improving the quality of images for use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Justin Tomasi , Brandon Wagstaff , Steven L. Waslander , Jonathan Kelly

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems are fundamental building blocks for any autonomous robot navigating in unknown environments. The SLAM implementation heavily depends on the sensor modality employed on the mobile…

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a critical technology that enables autonomous robots to be aware of their surrounding environment. With the development of deep learning, SLAM systems can achieve a higher level of perception…

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) based on particle filtering has been extensively employed in indoor scenarios due to its high efficiency. However, in geometry feature-less scenes, the accuracy is severely reduced due to lack of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Yanbin Li , Wei Zhang , Zhiguo Zhang , Xiaogang Shi , Ziruo Li , Mingming Zhang , Hongping Xie , Wenzheng Chi

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…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Dong Wang , Hannes Haag , Daniel Casado Herraez , Stefan May , Cyrill Stachniss , Andreas Nüchter

We present the concept of concurrent flow-based localization and mapping (FLAM) for autonomous field robots navigating within background flows. Different from the classical simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem, where the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Zhuoyuan Song , Kamran Mohseni

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has shown promising results for 3D scene modeling using mixtures of Gaussians, yet its existing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) variants typically rely on direct, deterministic pose optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yuhan Zhu , Yanyu Zhang , Jie Xu , Wei Ren

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a critical task in robotics, enabling systems to autonomously navigate and understand complex environments. Current SLAM approaches predominantly rely on geometric cues for mapping and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yongxu Wang , Xu Cao , Weiyun Yi , Zhaoxin Fan

NeRF-based SLAM has recently achieved promising results in tracking and reconstruction. However, existing methods face challenges in providing sufficient scene representation, capturing structural information, and maintaining global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Ziren Gong , Fabio Tosi , Youmin Zhang , Stefano Mattoccia , Matteo Poggi

Simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) play a vital role in autonomous robotics. Robotic platforms are often resource-constrained, and this limitation motivates resource-efficient SLAM implementations. While sparse visual SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Christiaan J. Müller , Corné E. van Daalen

This paper presents a novel approach to visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) using multiple RGB-D cameras. The proposed method, Multicam-SLAM, significantly enhances the robustness and accuracy of SLAM systems by capturing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Shenghao Li , Luchao Pang , Xianglong Hu

The visual-based SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) is a technology widely used in applications such as robotic navigation and virtual reality, which primarily focuses on detecting feature points from visual images to construct an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Qiong Chang , Xinyuan Chen , Xiang Li , Weimin Wang , Jun Miyazaki

The ability for an agent to localize itself within an environment is crucial for many real-world applications. For unknown environments, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) enables incremental and concurrent building of and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Emilio Parisotto , Devendra Singh Chaplot , Jian Zhang , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

A novel simultaneous localization and radio mapping (SLARM) framework for communication-aware connected robots in the unknown indoor environment is proposed, where the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm and the global…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Xinyu Gao , Yuanwei Liu , Xidong Mu

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) in large-scale, unknown, and complex subterranean environments is a challenging problem. Sensors must operate in off-nominal conditions; uneven and slippery terrains make wheel odometry…

We introduce a high-fidelity neural implicit dense visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system, termed DF-SLAM. In our work, we employ dictionary factors for scene representation, encoding the geometry and appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Weifeng Wei , Jie Wang , Shuqi Deng , Jie Liu

Object SLAM is considered increasingly significant for robot high-level perception and decision-making. Existing studies fall short in terms of data association, object representation, and semantic mapping and frequently rely on additional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Yanmin Wu , Yunzhou Zhang , Delong Zhu , Zhiqiang Deng , Wenkai Sun , Xin Chen , Jian Zhang

Previous attempts to integrate Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) into the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) framework either rely on the assumption of static scenes or require the ground truth camera poses, which impedes their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Chengyao Duan , Zhiliu Yang

Versatile and adaptive semantic understanding would enable autonomous systems to comprehend and interact with their surroundings. Existing fixed-class models limit the adaptability of indoor mobile and assistive autonomous systems. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Christina Kassab , Matias Mattamala , Lintong Zhang , Maurice Fallon

In the upcoming sixth generation (6G) of wireless communication systems, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces~(RISs) are regarded as one of the promising technological enablers, which can provide programmable signal propagation. Therefore,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-15 Hyowon Kim , Hui Chen , Musa Furkan Keskin , Yu Ge , Kamran Keykhosravi , George C. Alexandropoulos , Sunwoo Kim , Henk Wymeersch