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Modern 3D laser-range scanners have a high data rate, making online simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) computationally challenging. Recursive state estimation techniques are efficient but commit to a state estimate immediately…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-17 David Droeschel , Sven Behnke

We have proposed, to the best of our knowledge, the first-of-its-kind LiDAR-Inertial-Visual-Fused simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system with a strong place recognition capacity. Our proposed SLAM system is consist of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Kangcheng Liu

Navigating outdoor environments with visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems poses significant challenges due to dynamic scenes, lighting variations, and seasonal changes, requiring robust solutions. While traditional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Fabian Schmidt , Markus Enzweiler , Abhinav Valada

Tracking and mapping in large-scale, unbounded outdoor environments using only monocular RGB input presents substantial challenges for existing SLAM systems. Traditional Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Kai Deng , Yigong Zhang , Jian Yang , Jin Xie

Autonomous navigation is one of the key requirements for every potential application of mobile robots in the real-world. Besides high-accuracy state estimation, a suitable and globally consistent representation of the 3D environment is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Simon Boche , Sebastián Barbas Laina , Stefan Leutenegger

Combining 3D Gaussian splatting with Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has gained popularity as it enables continuous 3D environment reconstruction during motion. However, existing methods struggle in dynamic environments,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yangfan Zhao , Hanwei Zhang , Ke Huang , Qiufeng Wang , Zhenzhou Shao , Dengyu Wu

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

While recent Gaussian-based SLAM methods achieve photorealistic reconstruction from RGB-D data, their computational performance remains a critical bottleneck. State-of-the-art techniques operate at less than 20 fps, significantly lagging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Zhexi Peng , Kun Zhou , Tianjia Shao

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…

Recently,3DGaussianSplattinghasshowngreatpotentialin visual Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM). Existing methods have achieved encouraging results on RGB-D SLAM, but studies of the monocular case are still scarce. Moreover, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Tian Lan , Qinwei Lin , Haoqian Wang

Thermal cameras offer several advantages for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with mobile robots: they provide a passive, low-power solution to operating in darkness, are invariant to rapidly changing or high dynamic range…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Spencer Carmichael , Katherine A. Skinner

3D Gaussian Splatting offers expressive scene reconstruction, modeling a broad range of visual, geometric, and semantic information. However, efficient real-time map reconstruction with data streamed from multiple robots and devices remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Javier Yu , Timothy Chen , Mac Schwager

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized neural rendering with its efficiency and quality, but like many novel view synthesis methods, it heavily depends on accurate camera poses from Structure-from-Motion (SfM) systems. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zhisheng Huang , Peng Wang , Jingdong Zhang , Yuan Liu , Xin Li , Wenping Wang

Visual understanding of 3D environments in real-time, at low power, is a huge computational challenge. Often referred to as SLAM (Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping), it is central to applications spanning domestic and industrial…

Neural implicit representations have recently shown promising progress in dense Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM). However, existing works have shortcomings in terms of reconstruction quality and real-time performance, mainly due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zhen Hong , Bowen Wang , Haoran Duan , Yawen Huang , Xiong Li , Zhenyu Wen , Xiang Wu , Wei Xiang , Yefeng Zheng

We present WildGS-SLAM, a robust and efficient monocular RGB SLAM system designed to handle dynamic environments by leveraging uncertainty-aware geometric mapping. Unlike traditional SLAM systems, which assume static scenes, our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jianhao Zheng , Zihan Zhu , Valentin Bieri , Marc Pollefeys , Songyou Peng , Iro Armeni

SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) seeks to provide a moving agent with real-time self-localization. To achieve real-time speed, SLAM incrementally propagates position estimates. This makes SLAM fast but also makes it vulnerable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Huajian Huang , Wen-Yan Lin , Siying Liu , Dong Zhang , Sai-Kit Yeung

Numerous Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms have been presented in last decade using different sensor modalities. However, robust SLAM in extreme weather conditions is still an open research problem. In this paper,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Ziyang Hong , Yvan Petillot , Sen Wang

In this paper, we propose a highly accurate continuous-time trajectory estimation framework dedicated to SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) applications, which enables fuse high-frequency and asynchronous sensor data effectively.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Jiajun Lv , Kewei Hu , Jinhong Xu , Yong Liu , Xiushui Ma , Xingxing Zuo

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has been considered as a solved problem thanks to the progress made in the past few years. However, the great majority of LiDAR-based SLAM algorithms are designed for a specific type of payload…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Weikun Zhen , Sebastian Scherer