MGSO: Monocular Real-time Photometric SLAM with Efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting

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Main Authors: Hu, Yan Song, Abboud, Nicolas, Ali, Muhammad Qasim, Yang, Adam Srebrnjak, Elhajj, Imad, Asmar, Daniel, Chen, Yuhao, Zelek, John S.
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author Hu, Yan Song
Abboud, Nicolas
Ali, Muhammad Qasim
Yang, Adam Srebrnjak
Elhajj, Imad
Asmar, Daniel
Chen, Yuhao
Zelek, John S.
author_facet Hu, Yan Song
Abboud, Nicolas
Ali, Muhammad Qasim
Yang, Adam Srebrnjak
Elhajj, Imad
Asmar, Daniel
Chen, Yuhao
Zelek, John S.
contents Real-time SLAM with dense 3D mapping is computationally challenging, especially on resource-limited devices. The recent development of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) offers a promising approach for real-time dense 3D reconstruction. However, existing 3DGS-based SLAM systems struggle to balance hardware simplicity, speed, and map quality. Most systems excel in one or two of the aforementioned aspects but rarely achieve all. A key issue is the difficulty of initializing 3D Gaussians while concurrently conducting SLAM. To address these challenges, we present Monocular GSO (MGSO), a novel real-time SLAM system that integrates photometric SLAM with 3DGS. Photometric SLAM provides dense structured point clouds for 3DGS initialization, accelerating optimization and producing more efficient maps with fewer Gaussians. As a result, experiments show that our system generates reconstructions with a balance of quality, memory efficiency, and speed that outperforms the state-of-the-art. Furthermore, our system achieves all results using RGB inputs. We evaluate the Replica, TUM-RGBD, and EuRoC datasets against current live dense reconstruction systems. Not only do we surpass contemporary systems, but experiments also show that we maintain our performance on laptop hardware, making it a practical solution for robotics, A/R, and other real-time applications.
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spellingShingle MGSO: Monocular Real-time Photometric SLAM with Efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting
Hu, Yan Song
Abboud, Nicolas
Ali, Muhammad Qasim
Yang, Adam Srebrnjak
Elhajj, Imad
Asmar, Daniel
Chen, Yuhao
Zelek, John S.
Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Real-time SLAM with dense 3D mapping is computationally challenging, especially on resource-limited devices. The recent development of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) offers a promising approach for real-time dense 3D reconstruction. However, existing 3DGS-based SLAM systems struggle to balance hardware simplicity, speed, and map quality. Most systems excel in one or two of the aforementioned aspects but rarely achieve all. A key issue is the difficulty of initializing 3D Gaussians while concurrently conducting SLAM. To address these challenges, we present Monocular GSO (MGSO), a novel real-time SLAM system that integrates photometric SLAM with 3DGS. Photometric SLAM provides dense structured point clouds for 3DGS initialization, accelerating optimization and producing more efficient maps with fewer Gaussians. As a result, experiments show that our system generates reconstructions with a balance of quality, memory efficiency, and speed that outperforms the state-of-the-art. Furthermore, our system achieves all results using RGB inputs. We evaluate the Replica, TUM-RGBD, and EuRoC datasets against current live dense reconstruction systems. Not only do we surpass contemporary systems, but experiments also show that we maintain our performance on laptop hardware, making it a practical solution for robotics, A/R, and other real-time applications.
title MGSO: Monocular Real-time Photometric SLAM with Efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting
topic Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13055