A comprehensive survey of visual slam algorithms

A Macario Barros, M Michel, Y Moline, G Corre… - Robotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) techniques are widely researched, since
they allow the simultaneous creation of a map and the sensors' pose estimation in an …

Factor graphs for robot perception

F Dellaert, M Kaess - Foundations and Trends® in Robotics, 2017 - nowpublishers.com
We review the use of factor graphs for the modeling and solving of large-scale inference
problems in robotics. Factor graphs are a family of probabilistic graphical models, other …

SplaTAM: Splat Track & Map 3D Gaussians for Dense RGB-D SLAM

N Keetha, J Karhade… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Dense simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is crucial for robotics and augmented
reality applications. However current methods are often hampered by the non-volumetric or …

Gaussian splatting slam

H Matsuki, R Murai, PHJ Kelly… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present the first application of 3D Gaussian Splatting in monocular SLAM the most
fundamental but the hardest setup for Visual SLAM. Our method which runs live at 3fps …

Droid-slam: Deep visual slam for monocular, stereo, and rgb-d cameras

Z Teed, J Deng - Advances in neural information …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We introduce DROID-SLAM, a new deep learning based SLAM system. DROID-SLAM
consists of recurrent iterative updates of camera pose and pixelwise depth through a Dense …

Hydra: A real-time spatial perception system for 3D scene graph construction and optimization

N Hughes, Y Chang, L Carlone - arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.13360, 2022 - arxiv.org
3D scene graphs have recently emerged as a powerful high-level representation of 3D
environments. A 3D scene graph describes the environment as a layered graph where …

RTAB‐Map as an open‐source lidar and visual simultaneous localization and mapping library for large‐scale and long‐term online operation

M Labbé, F Michaud - Journal of field robotics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Distributed as an open‐source library since 2013, real‐time appearance‐based mapping
(RTAB‐Map) started as an appearance‐based loop closure detection approach with …

The revisiting problem in simultaneous localization and mapping: A survey on visual loop closure detection

KA Tsintotas, L Bampis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Where am I? This is one of the most critical questions that any intelligent system should
answer to decide whether it navigates to a previously visited area. This problem has long …

Neural point-based graphics

KA Aliev, A Sevastopolsky, M Kolos, D Ulyanov… - Computer Vision–ECCV …, 2020 - Springer
We present a new point-based approach for modeling the appearance of real scenes. The
approach uses a raw point cloud as the geometric representation of a scene, and augments …

Orb-slam2: An open-source slam system for monocular, stereo, and rgb-d cameras

R Mur-Artal, JD Tardós - IEEE transactions on robotics, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present ORB-SLAM2, a complete simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)
system for monocular, stereo and RGB-D cameras, including map reuse, loop closing, and …