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  1. TRACE: Privacy-Preserving Next-Best-View Selection over Distributed 3D Gaussian-Splat Maps

    Sep 30, 2026Amirhossein Mollaei Khass, Athanasios Cosse, Qiyu Sun +1Gaussian Splatting Simultaneous Localization And Mapping Systems3D Mapping

    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, 18015, USA

  2. HIGS: Hierarchical Implicit Grids for Joint Geometric and Semantic Scene Understanding

    Sep 29, 2026Hanwen Cao, Wenqiang Wu, Kuang-Ting Tu +5Semantic Scene Understanding3D Mapping

    University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA · Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, China · Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway +2

  3. All Roads Lead to Rome: Flow-driven Multi-Anchor Exploration for Open-Environment Active 3D Mapping

    Sep 29, 2026Yang Li, Aming Wu, Zihao Zhang +33D MappingViewpoint-Dependent Active Perception

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Tianjin University, China · School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, China

  4. OREN-X: Octree Residual Network for Real-Time Multi-Modal Mapping

    Sep 24, 2026Zhirui Dai, Qihao Qian, Dinh Minh Nguyen +63D MappingSimultaneous Localization And Mapping

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA · VinMotion · Parsons +2

  5. ArborSplat: Online Semantic Gaussian Splatting SLAM for Orchards

    Sep 22, 2026Alessandro Masini, Matteo Frosi, Mirko Usuelli +1Gaussian Splatting Simultaneous Localization And Mapping SystemsOrb-Slam2

    Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy

  6. BayesianGS-SLAM: Uncertainty-Aware Neural Rendering SLAM via Probabilistic Formulation

    Sep 21, 2026Kyeongsu Kang, Seongbo Ha, Sibaek Lee +1Gaussian Splatting Simultaneous Localization And Mapping SystemsOrb-Slam2

    Department of Intelligent Robotics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea

  7. EliGSiR: Continual RGB-D Mapping with Gaussian Splatting under Bounded Compute

    Sep 17, 2026Björn Ellensohn, Elmar Rueckert, Christian RauchGaussian Splatting Simultaneous Localization And Mapping SystemsGaussian Splatting

    TUM

  8. Lesion-centered 3D mapping of colonoscopy procedures: validation of a hierarchical ensemble pipeline on public benchmark videos

    Sep 15, 2026Hyunjun Kim, Hyeonwoo Na, Jaewoo LeeColonoscopyLesion

    School of Computing, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea · Clinical Imaging Research Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea · Division of Mechanical and Space Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan +1

  9. Valerant: An Automatic Navigable Game Map Generator via Action-Conditioned World Model Exploration

    Sep 8, 2026Yiran Qiao, Feng Wang, Jing Ma3D World3D Mapping

    Case Western Reserve University · Johns Hopkins University

  10. Rethinking Learned Occupancy in Autonomous Active Mapping with Observation-Gated Filtering

    Sep 8, 2026Jiahui Zhang, Bonian Han, Gongbo Liang +13D Semantic Occupancy PredictionOccupancy

    Boise State University · Texas A&M University–San Antonio

  11. Automated Weld Seam Recognition and 3D Mapping for Robotic Post Processing Using Photogrammetry and Semantic Segmentation

    Sep 3, 2026Augustin Raju, Abilash Madavath, Chandra Yuvesh Aubeeluck +3Semantic SegmentationPost-Processing

    TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences, Germany

  12. OctWorld: Long-Range World-Consistent Video Generation with Octree-Based 3D Mapping

    Sep 3, 2026Zelong Lv, Sicheng Xu, Jianfeng Xiang +5Playable Video World GenerationLong Video Generation

    University of Science and Technology of China · Microsoft Research Asia · Tsinghua University

  13. VOIM: Training-Free Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Mapping for RGB-D and Monocular SLAM

    Sep 1, 2026Sangmin Song, Sarath Kodagoda, Marc G. Carmichael +43D MappingOpen-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation

    Robotics Institute, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo NSW 2007, Australia · Smart Sensing and Robotics Laboratory (SensR Lab), Centre for Advanced Manufacturing Technology, School of Engineering, Design and Built Environment, Kingswood NSW 2747, Australia · Guide Dogs New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory, Sydney NSW, Australia

  14. Map-Det3D: Metric Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction Prior for Multi-view 3D Object Detection from Streaming Inputs

    Aug 12, 2026Yung-Hsu Yang, Luigi Piccinelli, Samuel Rota Bulò +73D Object DetectionFeed-Forward 3D Reconstruction

    ETH Zürich, Switzerland · Meta Reality Labs Zürich, Switzerland · University of Bonn, Germany

  15. Sensor-Informed Per-Point Covariance for Structured-Light 3D Imaging

    Aug 11, 2026Sehoon Tak, Jae-Sang HyunCovariance3D Mapping

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, South Korea

  16. LifelongCrossNav: Persistent 3D Semantic Memory for Cross-Floor Multi-Object Navigation

    Aug 7, 2026Zehui Li, Zihao Sun, Jiawei Xu +6Object Goal NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    1Peking University · 2Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence

  17. M2-SMap: Memory-Efficient Semantic Mapping with Hierarchical Multi-Model Representation

    Aug 7, 2026QiYing Deng, ZhongLai Wang, Yuan Gao +13D MappingPoint Clouds

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

  18. A Vision-based Control Framework for Real-time Autonomous UUV Operations

    Aug 5, 2026Erik Tjærand Frøland, Marco Job, Md Ether Deowan +1Autonomous Underwater VehiclesAutonomous Navigation

    Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, NTNU, Norway · Oceaneering AS, Norway

  19. Quality-Adaptive Multi-UAV 3D Reconstruction with Sparse Workload Redistribution

    Jul 27, 2026Benjamin Sportich, Kenza Boubakri, Olivier Simonin +1Multi-Uav3D Reconstruction

    Inria, INSA Lyon, CITI, 69621 Villeurbanne, France.

  20. Multi-Resolution Voxelized Map-Based Stereo Visual-Inertial Odometry

    Jul 19, 2026Shuyi Pan, Hangtian Wang, Zhaoxing Zhang +3Visual Inertial OdometryVisual-Inertial Systems

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China · AI Chip Center for Emerging Smart Systems (AC-CESS), InnoHK Centers, Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong SAR, China

  21. Vision-Language-Motion Maps: An Open-Vocabulary, Uncertainty-Aware, Queryable Motion Attribute for 3D Scene Maps

    Jul 17, 2026Dibyendu Ghosh, Ayushi Shakya3D Mapping3D Scene Understanding

    Rekise Marine, Bangalore, India

  22. AeroMap3D: Anchoring Monocular UAV 6-DoF Localization to Visual-Geometric-Semantic Map Priors

    Jul 15, 2026Zhiyun Deng, Luis SentisDrone-View Geo-Localization3D Mapping

    The University of Texas at Austin · AIVE AI Systems

  23. VistaVLA: Geometry- and Semantic-Aware 3D Gaussian-Grounded VLA for Robotic Manipulation

    Jul 14, 2026Mohan Liu, Zhihao Gu, Xuanyu Chen +5Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-Actions3D Scene Understanding

    EmPACT Lab, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore

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

    Jul 12, 2026Michalis Chatzispyrou, Luke Horgan, Hyunkil Hwang +6Visual-Inertial SystemsOrb-Slam2

    University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA · Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA · Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, USA +1

  25. Neural LiDAR Bundle Adjustment

    Jul 5, 2026Chin Yung Anson Hon, Kaicheng Zhang, Sen WangNeural Radiance Fields3D Mapping

    Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  26. DL-SLAM: Enabling High-Fidelity Gaussian Splatting SLAM in Dynamic Environments based on Dual-Level Probability

    Jul 2, 2026Ziheng Xu, Qingfeng Li, Xuefeng Liu +2Gaussian Splatting Simultaneous Localization And Mapping SystemsSimultaneous Localization And Mapping

    ACMMM 2026, , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  27. GaussLite: Online Task-Conditioned 3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Robotic Mapping

    Jun 29, 2026Annika Thomas, Mason Peterson, Jonathan P. HowGaussian Splatting Simultaneous Localization And Mapping Systems3D Mapping

  28. Robust and Efficient Monocular 3D Gaussian SLAM for Kilometer-Scale Outdoor Scenes

    Jun 29, 2026Sicheng Yu, Dongxu Shen, Beizhen Zhao +2Gaussian Splatting Simultaneous Localization And Mapping SystemsOrb-Slam2

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China

  29. Hyper-Network Neural Functional Maps for Unsupervised Robust 3D Shape Matching

    Jun 29, 2026Dongliang Cao, Florian BernardShape Correspondence3D Mapping

    University of Bonn, Germany

  30. Graph-GSReg: Leveraging 3D Scene Graphs for Gaussian Splatting Registration

    Jun 29, 2026Jaewon Lee, Mangyu Kong, Euntai Kim3D Gaussian3D Scene Graphs

    Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea · Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  31. VCS-SLAM: Geometry-Validated Semantic Evidence Fusion for 3D Gaussian SLAM

    Jun 28, 2026Raman Jha, Shuaihang Yuan, Yi FangOrb-Slam2Simultaneous Localization And Mapping

    New York University, Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA. · Embodied AI and Robotics (AIR) Lab, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE. · New York University Abu Dhabi, Electrical Engineering, Abu Dhabi 129188, UAE.

  32. CubifyGS: Object-Centric 3D Gaussian Splatting for Lifelong Dynamic Scene Maintenance

    Jun 27, 2026Bohan Ren, Dianyi Yang, Shiyang Liu +53D GaussianScene Reconstruction

    School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China · 2Guangzhou Saite Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.

  33. UAV-MapFusion: RTK-Aligned Uncertainty-Aware Coarse-to-Fine Multi-Session UAV Mapping

    Jun 25, 2026Feng Pan, Chunran Zheng, Bing Xue +4Drone-View Geo-LocalizationMulti-Uav

    College of Automation, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China · Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · College of Mechatronics and Control Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China

  34. ResilPhase: Plug-and-Play Phase Mapping and Noise-Resilient Macro-Trajectory Extrapolation for Diffusion Acceleration

    Jun 25, 2026Qicheng Zhao, Yu Li, Qi Sun +1Residual Conditional Diffusion ModelDiffusion Models

    Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  35. RoboAtlas: Contextual Active SLAM

    Jun 24, 2026Alexander Schperberg, Shivam K. Panda, Abraham P. Vinod +2Simultaneous Localization And MappingRobot Navigation

    Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA · Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA

  36. Spatio-Temporal Mixture-of-Modality-Experts Diffusion for Quantitative DCE-MRI Synthesis from Incomplete MR Sequences

    Jun 24, 2026Junhyeok Lee, Kyu Sung ChoiMedical Image GenerationMultimodal Diffusion Models

    Interdisciplinary Program in Cancer Biology, Seoul National University College of Medicine · Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Hospital · Department of Radiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine +1

  37. MMD-SLAM: Structure-Enhanced Multi-Meta Gaussian Distribution-Guided Visual SLAM

    Jun 18, 2026Fan Zhu, Ziyu Chen, Peichen Liu +6Gaussian Splatting Simultaneous Localization And Mapping SystemsOrb-Slam2

    HFIPS, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China. · University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. · Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. +3

  38. Large-Scale Continuous Occupancy Mapping via Variance-Weighted Submap Joining

    Jun 9, 2026Zhuhua Bai, Yingyu Wang, Liang Zhao +1Simultaneous Localization And MappingOccupancy

    Robotics Institute, University of Technology Sydney, Australia · School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK

  39. Reliability-Guided Depth Fusion for Glare-Resilient Navigation Costmaps

    Jun 2, 2026Shang-En Tsai3D MappingAutonomous Navigation

  40. SAVMap: Structure-Aided Visual Mapping of Large-Scale 2.5D Manhattan Wireframes from Panoramic Video

    Jun 1, 2026Howard Huang, Bharath Surianarayanan, Keifer Lee +23D MappingOmnidirectional Images

  41. Generative Diffusion Priors for 3D Mapping of the Dark Universe

    May 30, 2026Brandon Zhao, Diana Scognamiglio, Olivier Doré +1CosmologyDiffusion Priors

    Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology · Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology · Department of Physics, Duke University +1

  42. Triangle Splatting SLAM

    May 29, 2026Nicholas Fry, Eric Dexheimer, Kirill Mazur +2Gaussian Splatting Simultaneous Localization And Mapping SystemsSimultaneous Localization And Mapping

    Software Performance Optimisation Group, Imperial College London · Department of Computing, Imperial College London

  43. Uncertainty-driven 3D Gaussian Splatting Active Mapping via Anisotropic Visibility Field

    May 28, 2026Shangjie Xue, Jesse Dill, Dhruv Ahuja +33D GaussianGaussian Splatting

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  44. TriSplat: Simulation-Ready Feed-Forward 3D Scene Reconstruction

    May 25, 2026Weijie Wang, Zimu Li, Jinchuan Shi +5Feed-Forward 3D ReconstructionSurface Representation

    Zhejiang University · ETH Zurich · ETH AI Center +2

  45. MASt3R-Nav: WayPixel Navigation in Relative 3D Maps

    May 22, 2026Vansh Garg, Rohit Jayanti, Krish Pandya +53D MappingObject Goal Navigation

    Robotics Research Center, IIIT-Hyderabad, India · University of Heidelberg · MBZUAI

  46. Semantic-Aware Guided Drone Exploration for Language-Conditioned 3D Indoor Mapping

    May 22, 2026Nitin Vegesna, Avideh Zakhor3D MappingLow-Latency Latent Planning

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA, USA

  47. Scene Reconstruction as Mapping Priors for 3D Detection

    May 21, 2026Yang Fu, Yuliang Zou, Hao Xiang +83D Object Detection3D Mapping

    Waymo LLC · UC San Deigo

  48. 3D LULC classification using multispectral LiDAR and deep learning: current and prospective schemes

    May 21, 2026Narges Takhtkeshha, Aldino Rizaldy, Markus Hollaus +3Land CoverHyperspectral Image

    3D Optical Metrology (3DOM) Unit, Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK), Trento, Italy · Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria · Helmholtz-ZentrumDresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF), Freiberg, Germany +2

  49. Not What You Asked For: Typographic Attacks in Household Robot Manipulation

    May 18, 2026Ali Iranmanesh, Peng LiuRobot SystemsFrozen Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training Visual Encoder

    Cyber Security Lab The Pennsylvania State University State College, USA

  50. Mono-Hydra++: Real-Time Monocular Scene Graph Construction with Multi-Task Learning for 3D Indoor Mapping

    May 17, 2026U. V. B. L. Udugama, George Vosselman, Francesco Nex3D Scene Graphs3D Mapping

    Department of Earth Observation Science, University of Twente, Enschede, 7522 NH, The Netherlands

  51. TouchMap-OR: Multi-View 3D Mapping of Hand-Surface Contacts

    May 17, 2026Sophokles Ktistakis, Rui Wang, Bastian Grande +13D HandTactile

    1ETH Zurich · Institute for Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University Hospital Zurich · Department of Public and Global Health, University of Zurich

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

    May 15, 2026Dongjae Lee, Wooseong Yang, Yifu Tao +2Continuous Distance FieldOrb-Slam2

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, S. Korea · Oxford Robotics Institute at the University of Oxford, UK

  53. Raymoval: Raycasting-based Dynamic Object Removal for Static 3D Mapping

    May 9, 2026Daebeom Kim, Seungjae Lee, Seoyeon Jang +23D MappingRobot Navigation

    School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea

  54. FUS3DMaps: Scalable and Accurate Open-Vocabulary Semantic Mapping by 3D Fusion of Voxel- and Instance-Level Layers

    May 5, 2026Timon Homberger, Finn Lukas Busch, Jesús Gerardo Ortega Peimbert +2Open-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation3D Mapping

    Division of Robotics, Perception, and Learning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

  55. Depth-Guided Privacy-Preserving Visual Localization Using 3D Sphere Clouds

    May 1, 2026Heejoon Moon, Jongwoo Lee, Jeonggon Kim +1Sequential Visual Localization3D Mapping

    Department of Artificial Intelligence Hanyang Univeristy Seoul, Republic of Korea · Department of Electronic Engineering Hanyang Univeristy Seoul, Republic of Korea

  56. Seamless Indoor-Outdoor Mapping for INGENIOUS First Responders

    Apr 29, 2026Jürgen Wohlfeil, Henry Meißner, Adrian Schischmanow +43D MappingDisaster Response

    Institute of Optical Systems (OS), German Aerospace Center (DLR) Berlin, Germany

  57. Lights Out: A Nighttime UAV Localization Framework Using Thermal Imagery and Semantic 3D Maps

    Apr 29, 2026Ryan Allen, Melissa GreeffDrone-View Geo-LocalizationRtk-Gnss

    Robora Lab (www.roboralab.com), Queen’s University · affiliated with Ingenuity Labs Research Institute

  58. Passage-Aware Structural Mapping for RGB-D Visual SLAM

    Apr 27, 2026Ali Tourani, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Saad Ejaz +4Orb-Slam2Simultaneous Localization And Mapping

    Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability, and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. · Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain. · Faculty of Science, Technology, and Medicine at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

  59. Paparazzo: Active Mapping of Moving 3D Objects

    Apr 21, 2026Davide Allegro, Shiyao Li, Stefano Ghidoni +13D Mapping3D Generation

    University of Padova · 2LIGM, ´Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chauss´ees, IP Paris, Univ Gustave Eiffel, CNRS

  60. OpenFrontier: General Navigation with Visual-Language Grounded Frontiers

    Mar 5, 2026Esteban Padilla-Cerdio, Boyang Sun, Marc Pollefeys +1Vision-Language NavigationNavigation

    1ETH Zurich · 2Microsoft Spatial AI Lab · University of Bonn