A review of visual SLAM methods for autonomous driving vehicles

J Cheng, L Zhang, Q Chen, X Hu, J Cai - Engineering Applications of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Autonomous driving vehicles require both a precise localization and mapping solution in
different driving environment. In this context, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping …

Visual language maps for robot navigation

C Huang, O Mees, A Zeng… - 2023 IEEE International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Grounding language to the visual observations of a navigating agent can be performed
using off-the-shelf visual-language models pretrained on Internet-scale data (eg, image …

Bundlesdf: Neural 6-dof tracking and 3d reconstruction of unknown objects

B Wen, J Tremblay, V Blukis, S Tyree… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present a near real-time (10Hz) method for 6-DoF tracking of an unknown object from a
monocular RGBD video sequence, while simultaneously performing neural 3D …

vmap: Vectorised object mapping for neural field slam

X Kong, S Liu, M Taher… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We present vMAP, an object-level dense SLAM system using neural field representations.
Each object is represented by a small MLP, enabling efficient, watertight object modelling …

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 …

Kimera: From SLAM to spatial perception with 3D dynamic scene graphs

A Rosinol, A Violette, M Abate… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Humans are able to form a complex mental model of the environment they move in. This
mental model captures geometric and semantic aspects of the scene, describes the …

Kimera: an open-source library for real-time metric-semantic localization and mapping

A Rosinol, M Abate, Y Chang… - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We provide an open-source C++ library for real-time metric-semantic visual-inertial
Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM). The library goes beyond existing visual …

Kimera-multi: Robust, distributed, dense metric-semantic slam for multi-robot systems

Y Tian, Y Chang, FH Arias… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a crucial capability to obtain
timely situational awareness over large areas. Real-world applications demand multi-robot …

DynaSLAM II: Tightly-coupled multi-object tracking and SLAM

B Bescos, C Campos, JD Tardós… - IEEE robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The assumption of scene rigidity is common in visual SLAM algorithms. However, it limits
their applicability in populated real-world environments. Furthermore, most scenarios …

Blitz-SLAM: A semantic SLAM in dynamic environments

Y Fan, Q Zhang, Y Tang, S Liu, H Han - Pattern Recognition, 2022 - Elsevier
Static environment is a prerequisite for most of visual simultaneous localization and
mapping systems. Such a strong assumption limits the practical application of most existing …