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7 papers

cs.RO2026

Mapping Pamir: Multi-Session Visual-Inertial SLAM and 3D Reconstruction of an Underwater Shipwreck

Michalis Chatzispyrou, Luke Horgan, Hyunkil Hwang +6

This paper presents a framework for multi-session mapping of underwater environments utilizing an affordable action camera. The Visual-Inertial data are augmented by water depth re…

cs.RO2025

Is Image-based Object Pose Estimation Ready to Support Grasping?

Eric C. Joyce, Qianwen Zhao, Nathaniel Burgdorfer +2

We present a framework for evaluating 6-DoF instance-level object pose estimators, focusing on those that require a single RGB (not RGB-D) image as input. Besides gaining intuition…

cs.RO2025

Understanding while Exploring: Semantics-driven Active Mapping

Liyan Chen, Huangying Zhan, Hairong Yin +2

Effective robotic autonomy in unknown environments demands proactive exploration and precise understanding of both geometry and semantics. In this paper, we propose ActiveSGM, an a…

cs.CV2025

Radiant Triangle Soup with Soft Connectivity Forces for 3D Reconstruction and Novel View Synthesis

Nathaniel Burgdorfer, Philippos Mordohai

We introduce an inference-time scene optimization algorithm utilizing triangle soup, a collection of disconnected translucent triangle primitives, as the representation for the geo…

cs.RO2025

Mapping the Catacombs: An Underwater Cave Segment of the Devil's Eye System

Michalis Chatzispyrou, Luke Horgan, Hyunkil Hwang +5

This paper presents a framework for mapping underwater caves. Underwater caves are crucial for fresh water resource management, underwater archaeology, and hydrogeology. Mapping th…

cs.RO2025

Consensus-Driven Uncertainty for Robotic Grasping based on RGB Perception

Eric C. Joyce, Qianwen Zhao, Nathaniel Burgdorfer +2

Deep object pose estimators are notoriously overconfident. A grasping agent that both estimates the 6-DoF pose of a target object and predicts the uncertainty of its own estimate c…