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We present HI-SLAM2, a geometry-aware Gaussian SLAM system that achieves fast and accurate monocular scene reconstruction using only RGB input. Existing Neural SLAM or 3DGS-based SLAM methods often trade off between rendering quality and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Wei Zhang , Qing Cheng , David Skuddis , Niclas Zeller , Daniel Cremers , Norbert Haala

Recent work has shown that 3D Gaussian-based SLAM enables high-quality reconstruction, accurate pose estimation, and real-time rendering of scenes. However, these approaches are built on a tremendous number of redundant 3D Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Tianchen Deng , Chang Nie , Shuhong Liu , Wenhua Wu , Jianfei Yang , Shenghai Yuan , Jiuming Liu , Danwei Wang , Hesheng Wang

We present MonoGS++, a novel fast and accurate Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) method that leverages 3D Gaussian representations and operates solely on RGB inputs. While previous 3D Gaussian Splatting (GS)-based methods largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Renwu Li , Wenjing Ke , Dong Li , Lu Tian , Emad Barsoum

In this paper we present NR-SLAM, a novel non-rigid monocular SLAM system founded on the combination of a Dynamic Deformation Graph with a Visco-Elastic deformation model. The former enables our system to represent the dynamics of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Juan J. Gomez Rodriguez , J. M. M Montiel , Juan D. Tardos

Monocular visual SLAM has become an attractive practical approach for robot localization and 3D environment mapping, since cameras are small, lightweight, inexpensive, and produce high-rate, high-resolution data streams. Although numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Hasnain Vohra , Maxim Bazik , Matthew Antone , Joseph Mundy , William Stephenson

Efficient three-dimensional reconstruction and real-time visualization are critical in surgical scenarios such as endoscopy. In recent years, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated remarkable performance in efficient 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Taoyu Wu , Yiyi Miao , Zhuoxiao Li , Haocheng Zhao , Kang Dang , Jionglong Su , Limin Yu , Haoang Li

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (V-SLAM) methods achieve remarkable performance in static environments, but face challenges in dynamic scenes where moving objects severely affect their core modules. To avoid this, dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Chenghao Xu , Elia Bonetto , Aamir Ahmad

We propose a novel, vision-only object-level SLAM framework for automotive applications representing 3D shapes by implicit signed distance functions. Our key innovation consists of augmenting the standard neural representation by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Li Cui , Yang Ding , Richard Hartley , Zirui Xie , Laurent Kneip , Zhenghua Yu

In this paper, a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method that eliminates the influence of moving objects in dynamic environments is proposed. This method utilizes the correlation between map points to separate points that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Weichen Dai , Yu Zhang , Ping Li , Zheng Fang , Sebastian Scherer

The Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) problem addresses the possibility of a robot to localize itself in an unknown environment and simultaneously build a consistent map of this environment. Recently, cameras have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Hudson M. S. Bruno , Esther L. Colombini

3D Gaussian splatting (3D-GS) has recently revolutionized novel view synthesis in the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. However, most existing algorithms fail to fully capture the underlying structure, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Tianci Wen , Zhiang Liu , Yongchun Fang

Simultaneously localizing camera poses and constructing Gaussian radiance fields in dynamic scenes establish a crucial bridge between 2D images and the 4D real world. Instead of removing dynamic objects as distractors and reconstructing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yanyan Li , Youxu Fang , Zunjie Zhu , Kunyi Li , Yong Ding , Federico Tombari

Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is a task to estimate the robot location and to reconstruct the environment based on observation from sensors such as LIght Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) and camera. It is widely used in robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Han Wang , Chen Wang , Lihua Xie

While dense visual SLAM methods are capable of estimating dense reconstructions of the environment, they suffer from a lack of robustness in their tracking step, especially when the optimisation is poorly initialised. Sparse visual SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Tristan Laidlow , Michael Bloesch , Wenbin Li , Stefan Leutenegger

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms are frequently deployed to support a wide range of robotics applications, such as autonomous navigation in unknown environments, and scene mapping in virtual reality. Many of these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Chih-Yuan Chiu

Recently, 3D Gaussian splatting-based RGB-D SLAM displays remarkable performance of high-fidelity 3D reconstruction. However, the lack of depth rendering consistency and efficient loop closure limits the quality of its geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xingguang Zhong , Yue Pan , Liren Jin , Marija Popović , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Constructing a high-fidelity representation of the 3D scene using a monocular camera can enable a wide range of applications on mobile devices, such as micro-robots, smartphones, and AR/VR headsets. On these devices, memory is often limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Dasong Gao , Peter Zhi Xuan Li , Vivienne Sze , Sertac Karaman

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is one of the most essential techniques in many real-world robotic applications. The assumption of static environments is common in most SLAM algorithms, which however, is not the case for most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Han Wang , Jing Ying Ko , Lihua Xie

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (vSLAM) is a widely used technique in robotics and computer vision that enables a robot to create a map of an unfamiliar environment using a camera sensor while simultaneously tracking its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yasaman Haghighi , Suryansh Kumar , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Luc Van Gool

Understanding geometric, semantic, and instance information in 3D scenes from sequential video data is essential for applications in robotics and augmented reality. However, existing Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Runnan Chen , Zhaoqing Wang , Jiepeng Wang , Yuexin Ma , Mingming Gong , Wenping Wang , Tongliang Liu