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9 papers

cs.RO2026

Scalix: Uncertainty-Aware Scale-Consistent Monocular SLAM

Sebastian Barbas Laina, Tianyi Zhang, Panagiotis Petropoulakis +5

Cameras are ubiquitous sensors in robotics due to their compact form factor and the perceptual richness captured through visual information. Monocular SLAM enables robots to unders…

cs.RO2026

AERO-VIS: Asynchronous Event-based Real-time Onboard Visual-Inertial SLAM

Yannick Burkhardt, Sebastián Barbas Laina, Simon Boche +2

The robustness of event cameras to high dynamic range and motion blur holds the potential to improve visual odometry systems in challenging environments. Although their high tempor…

cs.CV2026

CoRe-GS: Coarse-to-Refined Gaussian Splatting with Semantic Object Focus

Hannah Schieber, Dominik Frischmann, Victor Schaack +4

Fast and efficient 3D reconstruction is essential for time-critical robotic applications such as tele-guidance and disaster response, where operators must rapidly analyze specific…

cs.RO2026

FindAnything: Open-Vocabulary and Object-Centric Mapping for Robot Exploration in Any Environment

Sebastián Barbas Laina, Simon Boche, Sotiris Papatheodorou +4

Geometrically accurate and semantically expressive map representations have proven invaluable for robot deployment and task planning in unknown environments. Nevertheless, real-tim…

cs.RO2025

OKVIS2-X: Open Keyframe-based Visual-Inertial SLAM Configurable with Dense Depth or LiDAR, and GNSS

Simon Boche, Jaehyung Jung, Sebastián Barbas Laina +1

To empower mobile robots with usable maps as well as highest state estimation accuracy and robustness, we present OKVIS2-X: a state-of-the-art multi-sensor Simultaneous Localizatio…

cs.RO2025

Scalable Outdoors Autonomous Drone Flight with Visual-Inertial SLAM and Dense Submaps Built without LiDAR

Sebastián Barbas Laina, Simon Boche, Sotiris Papatheodorou +4

Autonomous navigation is needed for several robotics applications. In this paper we present an autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) system which purely relies on cost-effective an…