arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 7

Con-DSO: Learning Short-Horizon Consistency Priors for RGB-D Direct Sparse Odometry

Con-DSO introduces a consistency-aware RGB‑D direct sparse odometry framework that learns pixel‑level photometric and geometric uncertainty from adjacent RGB‑D frame pairs. The network predicts uncertainties that are converted into pairwise quality scores, guiding support‑pixel selection and forming a host‑side quality prior for keyframe tracking. Experiments on five public benchmarks show that this approach reduces absolute trajectory error by over 20% on ICL‑NUIM and by 50–80% on other datasets, improving robustness in challenging environments.

By Haolan Zhang, Thanh Nguyen Canh, Chenghao Li, Ziyan Gao, Xiongwen Jiang, Nak Young Chong
arXiv Computer Vision
5d ago

LingGS: Decoupling Feed-Forward Geometry Prediction from Camera Tracking for High-Fidelity Gaussian SLAM

The paper introduces LingGS, an online monocular RGB Gaussian splatting SLAM system that decouples feed‑forward geometry prediction from camera tracking. By leveraging a frozen streaming 3D foundation model as a virtual RGB‑D sensor for depth estimation and an explicit geometric solver for camera motion via feature reprojection, LingGS achieves higher tracking accuracy than learned predictions. Experiments on indoor and outdoor datasets demonstrate significant improvements in reconstruction quality, achieving about 7 FPS on a single RTX 4090 and 2–3× the throughput of prior SLAM systems.

By Da Li, Yihan Zang, Ivan Viola, Zeyu Wang, Dominik Engel