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  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,730 Views
13 Pages

A Dynamic Scene Vision SLAM Method Incorporating Object Detection and Object Characterization

  • Hongliang Guan,
  • Chengyuan Qian,
  • Tingsong Wu,
  • Xiaoming Hu,
  • Fuzhou Duan and
  • Xinyi Ye

8 February 2023

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) based on RGB-D cameras has been widely used for robot localization and navigation in unknown environments. Most current SLAM methods are constrained by static environment assumptions and perform poorly in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,400 Views
19 Pages

OL-SLAM: A Robust and Versatile System of Object Localization and SLAM

  • Chao Chen,
  • Yukai Ma,
  • Jiajun Lv,
  • Xiangrui Zhao,
  • Laijian Li,
  • Yong Liu and
  • Wang Gao

10 January 2023

This paper proposes a real-time, versatile Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) and object localization system, which fuses measurements from LiDAR, camera, Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), and Global Positioning System (GPS). Our system can...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,944 Views
17 Pages

15 September 2023

With the rapid development of autonomous driving and robotics applications in recent years, visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has become a hot research topic. The majority of visual SLAM systems relies on the assumption of scene rig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,528 Views
14 Pages

5 October 2022

In dynamic indoor environments and for a Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (vSLAM) system to operate, moving objects should be considered because they could affect the system’s visual odometer stability and its position estimation ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,389 Views
16 Pages

Object-level SLAM is a new development direction in SLAM technology. To better understand the scene, it not only focuses on building an environmental map and robot localization but also emphasizes identifying, tracking, and constructing specific obje...

  • Article
  • Open Access
576 Views
18 Pages

24 December 2025

Coupled simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and multi-object tracking have been studied in recent years. Although these tasks achieve promising results, they mainly associate keypoints and objects across frames separately, which limits their...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,883 Views
34 Pages

RGB-D Object SLAM Using Quadrics for Indoor Environments

  • Ziwei Liao,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Xianyu Qi and
  • Xiaoyu Zhang

9 September 2020

Indoor service robots need to build an object-centric semantic map to understand and execute human instructions. Conventional visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems build a map using geometric features such as points, lines, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,609 Views
17 Pages

A Dynamic Visual SLAM System Incorporating Object Tracking for UAVs

  • Minglei Li,
  • Jia Li,
  • Yanan Cao and
  • Guangyong Chen

29 May 2024

The capability of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to capture and utilize dynamic object information assumes critical significance for decision making and scene understanding. This paper presents a method for UAV relative positioning and target tracki...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,628 Views
27 Pages

18 July 2024

Most visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems are based on the assumption of a static environment in autonomous vehicles. However, when dynamic objects, particularly vehicles, occupy a large portion of the image, the localization a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,663 Views
13 Pages

6 February 2023

Object simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) introduces object-level landmarks to the map and helps robots to further perceive their surroundings. As one of the most preferred landmark representations, ellipsoid has a dense mathematical expres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,113 Views
25 Pages

Shaped-Based Tightly Coupled IMU/Camera Object-Level SLAM

  • Ilyar Asl Sabbaghian Hokmabadi,
  • Mengchi Ai and
  • Naser El-Sheimy

18 September 2023

Object-level simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has gained popularity in recent years since it can provide a means for intelligent robot-to-environment interactions. However, most of these methods assume that the distribution of the errors...

  • Article
  • Open Access
128 Citations
9,512 Views
19 Pages

A New RGB-D SLAM Method with Moving Object Detection for Dynamic Indoor Scenes

  • Runzhi Wang,
  • Wenhui Wan,
  • Yongkang Wang and
  • Kaichang Di

14 May 2019

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) methods based on an RGB-D camera have been studied and used in robot navigation and perception. So far, most such SLAM methods have been applied to a static environment. However, these methods are incapabl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,085 Views
15 Pages

27 March 2025

SLAM is regarded as a fundamental task in mobile robots and AR, implementing localization and mapping in certain circumstances. However, with only RGB images as input, monocular SLAM systems suffer problems of scale ambiguity and tracking difficulty...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,903 Views
25 Pages

4 September 2024

The treatment of moving objects in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a key challenge in contemporary robotics. In this paper, we propose an extension of the EKF-SLAM algorithm that incorporates moving objects into the estimation process...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,572 Views
18 Pages

MoTI: A Multi-Stage Algorithm for Moving Object Identification in SLAM

  • Changqing Hu,
  • Manlu Liu,
  • Su Zhang,
  • Yu Xie and
  • Liguo Tan

15 September 2023

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms are widely applied in fields such as autonomous driving and target tracking. However, the effect of moving objects on localization and mapping remains a challenge in natural dynamic scenarios. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,981 Views
20 Pages

Real-Time 3D Object Detection and SLAM Fusion in a Low-Cost LiDAR Test Vehicle Setup

  • Duarte Fernandes,
  • Tiago Afonso,
  • Pedro Girão,
  • Dibet Gonzalez,
  • António Silva,
  • Rafael Névoa,
  • Paulo Novais,
  • João Monteiro and
  • Pedro Melo-Pinto

15 December 2021

Recently released research about deep learning applications related to perception for autonomous driving focuses heavily on the usage of LiDAR point cloud data as input for the neural networks, highlighting the importance of LiDAR technology in the f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,360 Views
20 Pages

10 October 2025

The integration of semantic simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with 3D object detection in indoor scenes is a significant challenge in the field of robot perception. Existing methods typically rely on expensive sensors and lack robustness a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,018 Views
20 Pages

12 October 2024

Traditional SLAM systems assume a static environment, but moving objects break this ideal assumption. In the real world, moving objects can greatly influence the precision of image matching and camera pose estimation. In order to solve these problems...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,367 Views
24 Pages

1 January 2021

Accurate localization and reliable mapping is essential for autonomous navigation of robots. As one of the core technologies for autonomous navigation, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has attracted widespread attention in recent decades....

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,805 Views
16 Pages

A visual localization approach for dynamic objects based on hybrid semantic-geometry information is presented. Due to the interference of moving objects in the real environment, the traditional simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system can...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,806 Views
17 Pages

24 April 2025

Conventional visual SLAM systems often struggle with degraded pose estimation accuracy in dynamic environments due to the interference of moving objects and unstable feature tracking. To address this critical challenge, we present a groundbreaking en...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
11,523 Views
28 Pages

19 January 2024

SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) based on 3D LiDAR (Laser Detection and Ranging) is an expanding field of research with numerous applications in the areas of autonomous driving, mobile robotics, and UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles). Howeve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,034 Views
23 Pages

24 April 2023

At present, SLAM is widely used in all kinds of dynamic scenes. It is difficult to distinguish dynamic targets in scenes using traditional visual SLAM. In the matching process, dynamic points are incorrectly added to the pose calculation with the cam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,657 Views
27 Pages

Multi-Objective Location and Mapping Based on Deep Learning and Visual Slam

  • Ying Sun,
  • Jun Hu,
  • Juntong Yun,
  • Ying Liu,
  • Dongxu Bai,
  • Xin Liu,
  • Guojun Zhao,
  • Guozhang Jiang,
  • Jianyi Kong and
  • Baojia Chen

6 October 2022

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) technology can be used to locate and build maps in unknown environments, but the constructed maps often suffer from poor readability and interactivity, and the primary and secondary information in the map...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,131 Views
18 Pages

13 December 2020

Vision-based sensors such as LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) are adopted in the SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) system. In the 16-beam LiDAR aided SLAM system, due to the difficulty of object detection by sparse laser data, neither t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,241 Views
20 Pages

26 August 2019

The important problem of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) in dynamic environments is less studied than the counterpart problem in static settings. In this paper, we present a solution for the feature-based SLAM problem in dynamic environm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,514 Views
19 Pages

11 July 2021

In this paper, we propose a novel approach that enables simultaneous localization, mapping (SLAM) and objects recognition using visual sensors data in open environments that is capable to work on sparse data point clouds. In the proposed algorithm th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,068 Views
15 Pages

22 February 2024

SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), as one of the basic functions of mobile robots, has become a hot topic in the field of robotics this year. The majority of SLAM systems in use today, however, disregard the impact of dynamic objects on th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
10,981 Views
28 Pages

A Review of 2D Lidar SLAM Research

  • Yingying Ran,
  • Xiaobin Xu,
  • Zhiying Tan and
  • Minzhou Luo

28 March 2025

Two-dimensional (2D) simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a key technology for intelligent indoor robots. By using a map generated via SLAM, the robot can navigate and perform specific tasks. This paper reviews the progress of 2D Lidar SLA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,208 Views
13 Pages

Stereo SLAM in Dynamic Environments Using Semantic Segmentation

  • Yongbao Ai,
  • Qianchong Sun,
  • Zhipeng Xi,
  • Na Li,
  • Jianmeng Dong and
  • Xiang Wang

As we all know, many dynamic objects appear almost continuously in the real world that are immensely capable of impairing the performance of the majority of vision-based SLAM systems based on the static-world assumption. In order to improve the robus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,767 Views
18 Pages

23 October 2023

Traditional simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) performs well in a static environment; however, with the abrupt increase of dynamic points in dynamic environments, the algorithm is influenced by a lot of meaningless information, leading to l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,877 Views
15 Pages

Semantics Aware Dynamic SLAM Based on 3D MODT

  • Muhammad Sualeh and
  • Gon-Woo Kim

23 September 2021

The idea of SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) being a solved problem revolves around the static world assumption, even though autonomous systems are gaining environmental perception capabilities by exploiting the advances in computer visio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,425 Views
31 Pages

YDD-SLAM: Indoor Dynamic Visual SLAM Fusing YOLOv5 with Depth Information

  • Peichao Cong,
  • Junjie Liu,
  • Jiaxing Li,
  • Yixuan Xiao,
  • Xilai Chen,
  • Xinjie Feng and
  • Xin Zhang

3 December 2023

Simultaneous location and mapping (SLAM) technology is key in robot autonomous navigation. Most visual SLAM (VSLAM) algorithms for dynamic environments cannot achieve sufficient positioning accuracy and real-time performance simultaneously. When the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,405 Views
21 Pages

21 July 2021

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) in an unknown environment is a crucial part for intelligent mobile robots to achieve high-level navigation and interaction tasks. As one of the typical LiDAR-based SLAM algorithms, the Lidar Odometry and M...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,990 Views
13 Pages

VSLAM Optimization Method in Dynamic Scenes Based on YOLO-Fastest

  • Zijing Song,
  • Weihua Su,
  • Haiyong Chen,
  • Mianshi Feng,
  • Jiahe Peng and
  • Aifang Zhang

22 August 2023

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is one of the core technologies for intelligent mobile robots. However, when robots perform VSLAM in dynamic scenes, dynamic objects can reduce the accuracy of mapping and localization. If deep learning-ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,037 Views
15 Pages

Improved Visual SLAM Algorithm Based on Dynamic Scenes

  • Jinxing Niu,
  • Ziqi Chen,
  • Tao Zhang and
  • Shiyu Zheng

20 November 2024

This work presents a novel RGB-D dynamic simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) method that improves accuracy, stability, and efficiency of localization while relying on deep learning in a dynamic environment, in contrast to traditional static...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,998 Views
23 Pages

8 January 2024

This work presents a novel RGB-D dynamic Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) method that improves the precision, stability, and efficiency of localisation while relying on lightweight deep learning in a dynamic environment compared to the tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,988 Views
25 Pages

22 March 2024

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) poses distinct challenges, especially in settings with variable elements, which demand the integration of multiple sensors to ensure robustness. This study addresses these issues by integrating advanced te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,126 Views
21 Pages

30 March 2020

Aiming at addressing the issues related to the tuning of loop closure detection parameters for indoor 2D graph-based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), this article proposes a multi-objective optimization method for these parameters. The p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,860 Views
15 Pages

RGB-D Visual SLAM Based on Yolov4-Tiny in Indoor Dynamic Environment

  • Zhanyuan Chang,
  • Honglin Wu,
  • Yunlong Sun and
  • Chuanjiang Li

30 January 2022

For a SLAM system operating in a dynamic indoor environment, its position estimation accuracy and visual odometer stability could be reduced because the system can be easily affected by moving obstacles. In this paper, a visual SLAM algorithm based o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,256 Views
11 Pages

8 December 2019

In order to move around automatically, mobile robots usually need to recognize their working environment first. Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has become an important research field recently, by which the robot can generate a map while...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,652 Views
23 Pages

Evaluating LiDAR Perception Algorithms for All-Weather Autonomy

  • Himanshu Gupta,
  • Achim J. Lilienthal and
  • Henrik Andreasson

6 December 2025

LiDAR is used in autonomous driving for navigation, obstacle avoidance, and environment mapping. However, adverse weather conditions introduce noise into sensor data, potentially degrading the performance of perception algorithms and compromising the...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,341 Views
14 Pages

3 July 2023

Removing moving objects from 3D LiDAR data plays a crucial role in advancing real-time odometry, life-long SLAM, and motion planning for robust autonomous navigation. In this paper, we present a novel method aimed at addressing the challenges faced b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,563 Views
19 Pages

28 November 2024

The integration of robotics in the garment industry remains relatively limited, primarily due to the challenges in the highly deformable nature of garments. The objective of this study is thus to explore a vision-based garment recognition and environ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
8,173 Views
25 Pages

8 February 2022

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM) is a prerequisite for robots to accomplish fully autonomous movement and exploration in unknown environments. At present, many impressive VSLAM systems have emerged, but most of them rely on the st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
450 Views
24 Pages

Dynamic SLAM by Combining Rigid Feature Point Set Modeling and YOLO

  • Pengchao Ding,
  • Weidong Wang,
  • Xian Wu,
  • Kangle Xu,
  • Dongmei Wu and
  • Zhijiang Du

30 December 2025

To obtain accurate location information in dynamic environments, we propose a dynamic visual–inertial SLAM algorithm that can operate in real-time. In this paper, we combine the YOLO-V5 algorithm and the depth threshold extraction algorithm to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
12,621 Views
31 Pages

An Improved Otsu Threshold Segmentation Method for Underwater Simultaneous Localization and Mapping-Based Navigation

  • Xin Yuan,
  • José-Fernán Martínez,
  • Martina Eckert and
  • Lourdes López-Santidrián

22 July 2016

The main focus of this paper is on extracting features with SOund Navigation And Ranging (SONAR) sensing for further underwater landmark-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). According to the characteristics of sonar images, in this pap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,931 Views
16 Pages

8 November 2022

Place recognition is an essential part of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). LiDAR-based place recognition relies almost exclusively on geometric information. However, geometric information may become unreliable when faced with environment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,876 Views
20 Pages

A deep learning-based Visual Inertial SLAM technique is proposed in this paper to ensure accurate autonomous localization of mobile robots in environments with dynamic objects. Addressing the limitations of real-time performance in deep learning algo...

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