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  1. Dr-BA: Separable Optimization for Direct Radar Bundle Adjustment & Localization

    May 7, 2026Daniil Lisus, Cedric Le Gentil, Timothy D. BarfootSimultaneous Localization and MappingMap-Based Localization

    Robotics Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  2. egenioussBench: A New Dataset for Geospatial Visual Localisation

    May 6, 2026Phillipp Fanta-Jende, Francesco Vultaggio, Alexander Kern +2Cross-View Geo-LocalizationVisual Place Recognition

    Unit Assistive and Autonomous Systems, Center for Vision, Automation and Control, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria · Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany · Institute of Flight Guidance, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany

  3. Dr-PoGO: Direct Radar Pose-Graph Optimization

    May 6, 2026Cedric Le Gentil, Weican Li, Leonardo Brizi +1Simultaneous Localization and MappingRelative Pose Estimation

    Robotics Institute University of Toronto. · Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering “Antonio Ruberti”, Sapienza University of Rome.

  4. ULF-Loc: Unbiased Landmark Feature for Robust Visual Localization with 3D Gaussian Splatting

    May 6, 2026Yingdong Gu, Shaocheng Yan, Zhenjun Zhao +43D Gaussian SplattingVisual Place Recognition

    Wuhan University · University of Zaragoza · The First Surveying and Mapping Institute of Hunan Province +1

  5. EdgeLPR: On the Deep Neural Network trade-off between Precision and Performance in LiDAR Place Recognition

    May 4, 2026Pierpaolo Serio, Hetian Wang, Zixiang Wei +4Mixed-Precision QuantizationEfficient Neural Network Inference

    Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy. · School of Engineering and Material Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, U.K. · Research and Development, Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Italy, Bologna, Italy.

  6. Change-Robust Online Spatial-Semantic Topological Mapping

    May 4, 2026Jiaming Wang, Jizhuo Chen, Diwen Liu +4Robot NavigationSemantic Mapping

    National University of Singapore

  7. Bridging the Indoor-Outdoor Gap: Cross-Technology Ranging for Seamless Robot Navigation

    Apr 28, 2026Paul SchwarzbachRobot NavigationWireless Localization

    Institute of Traffic Telematics, TUD Dresden University of Technology, 01069 Dresden, Germany

  8. COMPASS: COmpact Multi-channel Prior-map And Scene Signature for Floor-Plan-Based Visual Localization

    Apr 28, 2026Muhammad Shaheer, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Asier Bikandi-Noya +2Floor-Plan-Based Visual LocalizationCross-Modal Feature Matching

  9. Pushing Radar Odometry Beyond the Pavement: Current Capabilities and Challenges

    Apr 27, 2026Shaunak Kolhe, Peng Jiang, Maggie Wigness +4Mobile RoboticsRadar-Inertial Odometry

    Texas A&M University · DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory

  10. SNGR: Selective Non-Gaussian Refinement for Ambiguous SLAM Factor Graphs

    Apr 23, 2026Anushka Kulkarni, Sarthak DubeySimultaneous Localization and MappingFactor Graph Optimization

    Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

  11. Ufil: A Unified Framework for Infrastructure-based Localization

    Apr 23, 2026Simon Schäfer, Lucas Hegerath, Marius Molz +2Intelligent Transportation SystemsRobot Localization

    The authors are with the Chair of Embedded Software, RWTH Aachen University · B. Alrifaee is with the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany

  12. Radar Odometry Subject to High Tilt Dynamics of Subarctic Environments

    Apr 21, 2026Matěj Boxan, William Larrivée-Hardy, François PomerleauRobot NavigationRadar-Inertial Odometry

    Northern Robotics Laboratory, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada. · Université Laval, Quebec, Canada.

  13. Relative State Estimation using Event-Based Propeller Sensing

    Apr 20, 2026Ravi Kumar Thakur, Luis Granados Segura, Jan Klivan +4Event-Based VisionMulti-Robot Systems

    Department of Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Karlovo Namesti 13, 121 35 Prague 2, Czechia

  14. Greedy Kalman-Swarm: Improving State Estimation in Robot Swarms in Harsh Environments

    Apr 18, 2026Phunyapa Suksomboon, Paulo GarciaKalman FilteringMulti-Robot Systems

    International School of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

  15. GIST: Multimodal Knowledge Extraction and Spatial Grounding via Intelligent Semantic Topology

    Apr 16, 2026Shivendra Agrawal, Bradley HayesMultimodal GroundingEmbodied Navigation

    University of Colorado Boulder · Boulder, Colorado, USA

  16. Dual Pose-Graph Semantic Localization for Vision-Based Autonomous Drone Racing

    Apr 16, 2026David Perez-Saura, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Alvaro J. Gaona +1Pose Graph OptimizationAutonomous Racing

    Computer Vision & Aerial Robotics Group, Universidad Polit´ecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain · Automation and Robotics Group (ARG-SnT), University of Luxembourg – SnT, Luxembourg

  17. 4D Radar Gaussian Modeling and Scan Matching with RCS

    Apr 16, 2026Fernando Amodeo, Luis Merino, Fernando CaballeroMillimeter-Wave RadarmmWave Radar Sensing

    Service Robotics Laboratory – Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville), Spain

  18. CT-VIR: Continuous-Time Visual-Inertial-Ranging Fusion for Indoor Localization with Sparse Anchors

    Apr 16, 2026Yu-An Liu, Li ZhangWireless LocalizationVisual-Inertial Odometry

    School of Mathematics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230031, China

  19. AsymLoc: Towards Asymmetric Feature Matching for Efficient Visual Localization

    Apr 10, 2026Mohammad Omama, Gabriele Berton, Eric Foxlin +1Visual Place RecognitionEdge Inference

    The University of Texas at Austin · Work done as a part of a summer internship at Amazon. · Amazon

  20. An Asynchronous Two-Speed Kalman Filter for Real-Time UUV Cooperative Navigation Under Acoustic Delays

    Apr 3, 2026Shuyue Li, Miguel López-Benítez, Eng Gee Lim +5Kalman FilteringGNSS-Denied Localization

    School of Advanced Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China · School of Computer Science and Informatics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK · ARIES Research Centre, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid, Spain +3

  21. Equivariant Filter Transformations for Consistent and Efficient Visual--Inertial Navigation

    Mar 25, 2026Chungeng Tian, Fenghua He, Ning HaoRobot Localization

    School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150000, China.

  22. Degeneracy-Resilient Teach and Repeat for Geometrically Challenging Environments Using FMCW Lidar

    Mar 10, 2026Katya M. Papais, Wenda Zhao, Timothy D. BarfootEmbodied NavigationRobot Navigation

    Institute for Aerospace Studies, University of Toronto, Canada

  23. FoMo: A Multi-Season Dataset for Robot Navigation in Forêt Montmorency

    Mar 9, 2026Matěj Boxan, Gabriel Jeanson, Alexander Krawciw +5Simultaneous Localization and MappingRobotic Data Collection

    Norlab, Universit´e Laval, Quebec City, Canada · University of Toronto Robotics Institute, Toronto, Canada

  24. PROBE: Probabilistic Occupancy BEV Encoding with Analytical Translation Robustness for 3D Place Recognition

    Mar 6, 2026Jinseop Lee, Byoungho Lee, Gichul YooLiDAR Place RecognitionBird's-Eye-View Representation

    SK Intellix, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  25. TreeLoc++: Robust 6-DoF LiDAR Localization in Forests with a Compact Digital Forest Inventory

    Mar 4, 2026Minwoo Jung, Dongjae Lee, Nived Chebrolu +3RoboticsLiDAR Localization

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India · Oxford Robotics Institute, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

  26. UltraStar: Semantic-Aware Star Graph Modeling for Echocardiography Navigation

    Mar 2, 2026Teng Wang, Haojun Jiang, Chenxi Li +6EchocardiographyUltrasound Imaging

    Department of Automation, BNRist, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing, China +1

  27. Graph-Loc: Robust Graph-Based LiDAR Pose Tracking with Compact Structural Map Priors under Low Observability and Occlusion

    Feb 9, 2026Wentao Zhao, Yihe Niu, Zikun Chen +4LiDAR LocalizationMap-Based Localization

    School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China · School of Mathematical Sciences Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  28. CREPES-X: Hierarchical Bearing-Distance-Inertial Direct Cooperative Relative Pose Estimation System

    Dec 31, 2025Zhehan Li, Jiadong Lu, Zheng Wang +6Relative Pose EstimationMulti-Robot Systems

    State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. · Huzhou Institute of Zhejiang University, Huzhou, China. · University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. +1

  29. Scensory: Real-Time Robotic Olfactory Perception for Joint Identification and Source Localization

    Sep 11, 2025Yanbaihui Liu, Erica Babusci, Claudia K. Gunsch +1Robot NavigationRobot Localization

    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. +1

  30. GSVisLoc: Generalizable Visual Localization for Gaussian Splatting Scene Representations

    Aug 25, 2025Fadi Khatib, Dror Moran, Guy Trostianetsky +3Visual Place RecognitionCamera Pose Estimation

    Weizmann Institute of Science · NVIDIA