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This paper presents a collaborative implicit neural simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system with RGB-D image sequences, which consists of complete front-end and back-end modules including odometry, loop detection, sub-map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Jiarui Hu , Mao Mao , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang , Zhaopeng Cui

Visual degradation caused by limited visibility, insufficient lighting, and feature scarcity in underwater environments presents significant challenges to visual-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems. To address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Shuoshuo Ding , Tiedong Zhang , Dapeng Jiang , Ming Lei

Future lunar missions will require autonomous rovers capable of traversing tens of kilometers across challenging terrain while maintaining accurate localization and producing globally consistent maps. However, the absence of global…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Adam Dai , Guillem Casadesus Vila , Grace Gao

In this paper, we consider the problems in the practical application of visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). With the popularization and application of the technology in wide scope, the practicability of SLAM system has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 BaoSheng Zhang

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) plays an important role in many robotics fields, including social robots. Many of the available visual SLAM methods are based on the assumption of a static world and struggle in dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Mobin Habibpour , Alireza Nemati , Ali Meghdari , Alireza Taheri , Shima Nazari

In recent years, the paradigm of neural implicit representations has gained substantial attention in the field of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). However, a notable gap exists in the existing approaches when it comes to scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Hongjia Zhai , Gan Huang , Qirui Hu , Guanglin Li , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang

Leveraging multiple sensors enhances complex environmental perception and increases resilience to varying luminance conditions and high-speed motion patterns, achieving precise localization and mapping. This paper proposes, ECMD, an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Peiyu Chen , Weipeng Guan , Feng Huang , Yihan Zhong , Weisong Wen , Li-Ta Hsu , Peng Lu

Event cameras offer high-temporal-resolution sensing that remains reliable under high-speed motion and challenging lighting, making them promising for localization from LiDAR point clouds in GPS-denied and visually degraded environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Kuangyi Chen , Jun Zhang , Yuxi Hu , Yi Zhou , Friedrich Fraundorfer

Recent 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) techniques for Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) have significantly progressed in tracking and high-fidelity mapping. However, their sequential optimization framework and sensitivity to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Wancai Zheng , Linlin Ou , Jiajie He , Libo Zhou , Xinyi Yu , Yan Wei

We present UbiSLAM, an innovative solution for real-time mapping and localization in dynamic indoor environments. By deploying a network of fixed RGB-D cameras strategically throughout the workspace, UbiSLAM addresses limitations commonly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Halim Djerroud , Nico Steyn , Olivier Rabreau , Patrick Bonnin , Abderraouf Benali

Performing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in low-visibility conditions, such as environments filled with smoke, dust and transparent objets, has long been a challenging task. Sensors like cameras and Light Detection and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Fuhua Jia , Xiaoying Yang , Mengshen Yang , Yang Li , Hang Xu , Adam Rushworth , Salman Ijaz , Heng Yu , Tianxiang Cui

Collaborative simultaneous localization and mapping (CSLAM) is essential for autonomous aerial swarms, laying the foundation for downstream algorithms such as planning and control. To address existing CSLAM systems' limitations in relative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Hao Xu , Peize Liu , Xinyi Chen , Shaojie Shen

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) demand robust spatial perception capabilities, including Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), to support both remote and autonomous tasks. Vision-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Pushyami Kaveti , Ambjorn Grimsrud Waldum , Hanumant Singh , Martin Ludvigsen

Event cameras are a new type of sensors that are different from traditional cameras. Each pixel is triggered asynchronously by event. The trigger event is the change of the brightness irradiated on the pixel. If the increment or decrement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Kun Xiao , Guohui Wang , Yi Chen , Yongfeng Xie , Hong Li , Sen Li

In the field of multi-sensor fusion for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), monocular cameras and IMUs are widely used to build simple and effective visual-inertial systems. However, limited research has explored the integration…

Event cameras are an interesting visual exteroceptive sensor that reacts to brightness changes rather than integrating absolute image intensities. Owing to this design, the sensor exhibits strong performance in situations of challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Runze Yuan , Tao Liu , Zijia Dai , Yi-Fan Zuo , Laurent Kneip

We present a robust visual-inertial SLAM system that combines the benefits of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and planar constraints. Our system leverages a CNN to predict the depth map and the corresponding uncertainty map for each…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Pan Ji , Yuan Tian , Qingan Yan , Yuxin Ma , Yi Xu

Event cameras are bio-inspired sensors that offer advantages over traditional cameras. They operate asynchronously, sampling the scene at microsecond resolution and producing a stream of brightness changes. This unconventional output has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Suman Ghosh , Guillermo Gallego

Recent deep learning based visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) methods have made significant progress. However, how to make full use of visual information as well as better integrate with inertial measurement unit (IMU) in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xiongfeng Peng , Zhihua Liu , Weiming Li , Ping Tan , SoonYong Cho , Qiang Wang

Visual SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) based on planar features has found widespread applications in fields such as environmental structure perception and augmented reality. However, current research faces challenges in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Xinggang Hu , Yanmin Wu , Mingyuan Zhao , Linghao Yang , Xiangkui Zhang , Xiangyang Ji