Research Papers
LeGO-LOAM introduces a cutting-edge lidar odometry and mapping framework designed to deliver real-time, accurate 6-DOF pose estimation for ground vehicles, optimized for challenging, variable terrain environments. It significantly reduces computational
Reliable-loc introduces a resilient LiDAR-based global localization system for wearable mapping devices in complex, GNSS-denied street environments with sparse features and incomplete prior maps. Key Highlights: Paper Resources Related articles
This is the world’s first SLAM dataset recorded onboard real roller coasters, offering extreme motion dynamics, perceptual challenges, and unique conditions for benchmarking SLAM algorithms under aggressive real-world trajectories. Key
This paper introduces a SLAM framework that achieves real-time CPU-only performance in dense, registration-error-minimization-based odometry and mapping by leveraging exact point cloud downsampling via coreset extraction, eliminating the need for
MP-SfM redefines classical Structure-from-Motion by tightly integrating monocular depth and surface normal priors into incremental SfM, enabling robust 3D reconstruction from sparse, unstructured image collections. Key Highlights: Resources Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20040Github:
NormalCrafter introduces a novel approach for surface normal estimation in videos, leveraging diffusion priors to achieve high spatial fidelity and temporal consistency over arbitrary-length sequences. Key Highlights: Project Related articles
OpenLiDARMap presents a GNSS-free mapping framework that combines sparse public map priors with LiDAR data through scan-to-map and scan-to-scan alignment. This approach achieves georeferenced and drift-free point cloud maps. Key
MedSAM2 introduces a robust foundation model for promptable segmentation in 3D medical images and temporal video data, built by fine-tuning SAM2.1 on a large-scale curated medical dataset. Key Highlights: Resources
GenZ-ICP introduces an innovative iterative Closest Point (ICP) method that enhances LiDAR-based pose estimation by adaptively integrating point-to-plane and point-to-point error metrics, ensuring robust performance across diverse and degenerative environments.
Imperial College London unveils MASt3R-SLAM: a cutting-edge monocular dense SLAM system built on the revolutionary MASt3R two-view 3D reconstruction prior, delivering unmatched real-time accuracy and global consistency. Key Highlights: MASt3R-SLAM
Fast3R breaks the pairwise bottleneck in multi-view 3D reconstruction. Building on DUSt3R, it introduces a transformer-based architecture that directly regresses dense 3D pointmaps from unposed, unordered RGB images-processing 1000+ views
AirSLAM introduces a hybrid visual SLAM approach that integrates deep learning for feature detection with traditional backend optimization. Key highlights: Resource Links Related articles from LearnOpenCV: