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cs.RO2026

OASIS-Map: Object-Level Change Detection in Multi-Session Mapping using Semantic Correspondence Matching

Haedam Oh, Yifu Tao, Nived Chebrolu +1

Map representations which are consistent across repeated visits to a real-world semi-static environment are very useful for long-term robotic inspection. In such settings, the scen…

cs.RO2026

Hilti-Trimble-Oxford Dataset: 360 Visual-Inertial Benchmark with Floor Plan Priors for SLAM and Localization

Samuele Centanni, Yuhao Zhang, Yifu Tao +8

Automated progress monitoring on construction sites is an active area of research and development. Robot and human-carried mapping systems have been developed to build 3D maps of b…

cs.RO2026

ScaRF-SLAM: Scale-Consistent Reconstruction with Feed-Forward Models and Classical Visual SLAM

Yuhao Zhang, Yifu Tao, Frank Dellaert +1

Recent works have explored unifying SLAM with geometric foundation models (GFMs). However, directly using GFM predictions for tracking is highly sensitive to model capability and u…

cs.RO2026

LAPS: Improving Incremental LiDAR Mapping using Active Pooling and Sampling for Neural Distance Fields

Dongjae Lee, Wooseong Yang, Yifu Tao +2

Neural distance fields offer a compact and continuous representation of 3D geometry, making them attractive for incremental LiDAR mapping. However, their online optimization is vul…

cs.RO2026

Sapling-NeRF: Geo-Localised Sapling Reconstruction in Forests for Ecological Monitoring

Miguel Ángel Muñoz-Bañón, Nived Chebrolu, Sruthi M. Krishna Moorthy +4

Saplings are key indicators of forest regeneration and overall forest health. However, their fine-scale architectural traits are difficult to capture with existing 3D sensing metho…

cs.RO2025

PlanarMesh: Building Compact 3D Meshes from LiDAR using Incremental Adaptive Resolution Reconstruction

Jiahao Wang, Nived Chebrolu, Yifu Tao +3

Building an online 3D LiDAR mapping system that produces a detailed surface reconstruction while remaining computationally efficient is a challenging task. In this paper, we presen…

cs.RO2025

SiLVR: Scalable Lidar-Visual Radiance Field Reconstruction with Uncertainty Quantification

Yifu Tao, Maurice Fallon

We present a neural radiance field (NeRF) based large-scale reconstruction system that fuses lidar and vision data to generate high-quality reconstructions that are geometrically a…

cs.RO2024★ 27 cited

SiLVR: Scalable Lidar-Visual Reconstruction with Neural Radiance Fields for Robotic Inspection

Yifu Tao, Yash Bhalgat, Lanke Frank Tarimo Fu +3

We present a neural-field-based large-scale reconstruction system that fuses lidar and vision data to generate high-quality reconstructions that are geometrically accurate and capt…

cs.RO2023★ 12 cited

Osprey: Multi-Session Autonomous Aerial Mapping with LiDAR-based SLAM and Next Best View Planning

Rowan Border, Nived Chebrolu, Yifu Tao +2

Aerial mapping systems are important for many surveying applications (e.g., industrial inspection or agricultural monitoring). Aerial platforms that can fly GPS-guided preplanned m…

cs.RO2022

3D Lidar Reconstruction with Probabilistic Depth Completion for Robotic Navigation

Yifu Tao, Marija Popović, Yiduo Wang +3

Safe motion planning in robotics requires planning into space which has been verified to be free of obstacles. However, obtaining such environment representations using lidars is c…