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Occupancy mapping has been a key enabler of mobile robotics. Originally based on a discrete grid representation, occupancy mapping has evolved towards continuous representations that can predict the occupancy status at any location and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Cedric Le Gentil , Cedric Pradalier , Timothy D. Barfoot

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

SLAM is a fundamental component of modern autonomous systems, providing robots and their operators with a deeper understanding of their environment. SLAM systems often encounter challenges due to the dynamic nature of robotic motion,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Leon Davies , Baihua Li , Mohamad Saada , Simon Sølvsten , Qinggang Meng

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become a leading technique for real-time neural rendering and 3D scene reconstruction, but its rendering cost remains too high for many latency-sensitive scenarios. In particular, the rasterization stage in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Sheng Li , Yang Sui , Yue Wu , Zhuoran Song , Bo Yuan , Xulong Tang , Yue Dai

This paper presents a novel system designed for 3D mapping and visual relocalization using 3D Gaussian Splatting. Our proposed method uses LiDAR and camera data to create accurate and visually plausible representations of the environment.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Peng Jiang , Gaurav Pandey , Srikanth Saripalli

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) with dense representation plays a key role in robotics, Virtual Reality (VR), and Augmented Reality (AR) applications. Recent advancements in dense representation SLAM have highlighted the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Seongbo Ha , Jiung Yeon , Hyeonwoo Yu

The current state of the art of Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping, or SLAM, on low power embedded systems is about sparse localisation and mapping with low resolution results in the name of efficiency. Meanwhile, research in this field…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Konstantinos Boikos , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

SLAM (Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping) is a crucial component for robotic systems, providing a map of an environment, the current location and previous trajectory of a robot. While 3D LiDAR SLAM has received notable improvements in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Leon Davies , Baihua Li , Mohamad Saada , Simon Sølvsten , Qinggang Meng

In this paper, we introduce \textbf{GS-SLAM} that first utilizes 3D Gaussian representation in the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system. It facilitates a better balance between efficiency and accuracy. Compared to recent SLAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Chi Yan , Delin Qu , Dan Xu , Bin Zhao , Zhigang Wang , Dong Wang , Xuelong Li

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a leading neural rendering technique for high-fidelity view synthesis, prompting the development of dedicated 3DGS accelerators for resource-constrained platforms. The conventional decoupled…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Minnan Pei , Gang Li , Junwen Si , Zeyu Zhu , Zitao Mo , Peisong Wang , Zhuoran Song , Xiaoyao Liang , Jian Cheng

Constructing an occupancy representation of the environment is a fundamental problem for robot autonomy. Many accurate and efficient methods exist that address this problem but most assume that the occupancy states of different elements in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Ke Sun , Kelsey Saulnier , Nikolay Atanasov , George J. Pappas , Vijay Kumar

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems can largely benefit from 3DGS's state-of-the-art rendering efficiency and accuracy, but have not yet been adopted in resource-constrained edge devices…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Leshu Li , Jiayin Qin , Jie Peng , Zishen Wan , Huaizhi Qu , Ye Han , Pingqing Zheng , Hongsen Zhang , Yu Cao , Tianlong Chen , Yang Katie Zhao

Achieving real-time Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) based on 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) in large-scale real-world environments remains challenging, as existing methods still struggle to jointly achieve low-latency pose…

3D semantic occupancy prediction is a pivotal task in autonomous driving, providing a dense and fine-grained understanding of the surrounding environment, yet single-modality methods face trade-offs between camera semantics and LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 A. Enes Doruk , Hasan F. Ates

Occupancy is crucial for autonomous driving, providing essential geometric priors for perception and planning. However, existing methods predominantly rely on LiDAR-based occupancy annotations, which limits scalability and prevents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Baijun Ye , Minghui Qin , Saining Zhang , Moonjun Gong , Shaoting Zhu , Zebang Shen , Luan Zhang , Lu Zhang , Hao Zhao , Hang Zhao

This work introduces a novel and adaptable architecture designed for real-time occupancy forecasting that outperforms existing state-of-the-art models on the Waymo Open Motion Dataset in Soft IOU. The proposed model uses recursive latent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Bryce Ferenczi , Michael Burke , Tom Drummond

This paper presents a 3D lidar SLAM system based on improved regionalized Gaussian process (GP) map reconstruction to provide both low-drift state estimation and mapping in real-time for robotics applications. We utilize spatial GP…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jianyuan Ruan , Bo Li , Yinqiang Wang , Zhou Fang

Occupancy prediction plays a pivotal role in autonomous driving (AD) due to the fine-grained geometric perception and general object recognition capabilities. However, existing methods often incur high computational costs, which contradicts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yulin He , Wei Chen , Tianci Xun , Yusong Tan

We present a novel approach for enhancing robotic exploration by using generative occupancy mapping. We implement SceneSense, a diffusion model designed and trained for predicting 3D occupancy maps given partial observations. Our proposed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Lorin Achey , Alec Reed , Brendan Crowe , Bradley Hayes , Christoffer Heckman

General matrix multiplication (GEMM) on spatial accelerators is highly sensitive to mapping choices in both execution efficiency and energy consumption. However, the mapping space exhibits combinatorial explosion, which makes it extremely…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Wulve Yang , Hailong Zou , Rui Zhou , Jionghao Zhang , Qiang Li , Gang Li , Yi Zhan , Shushan Qiao