arXiv Computer Vision
3d ago

SLAM Adversarial Lab: An Extensible Framework for Visual SLAM Robustness Evaluation under Adverse Conditions

SLAM Adversarial Lab (SAL) is a modular framework designed to evaluate visual SLAM systems under adverse conditions such as fog, rain, camera, and video transport perturbations. It transforms existing datasets into adversarial versions by applying perturbations with severity levels expressed in real‑world units (e.g., meters for fog visibility). SAL’s extensible architecture separates datasets, perturbations, and SLAM algorithms via common interfaces, allowing users to add new components without rewriting integration code, and includes a search procedure to identify the severity at which a SLAM system fails.

By Mohamed Hefny, Karthik Dantu, Steven Y. Ko