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

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Main Authors: Hefny, Mohamed, Dantu, Karthik, Ko, Steven Y.
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Published: 2026
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author Hefny, Mohamed
Dantu, Karthik
Ko, Steven Y.
author_facet Hefny, Mohamed
Dantu, Karthik
Ko, Steven Y.
contents We present SAL (SLAM Adversarial Lab), a modular framework for evaluating visual SLAM systems under adversarial conditions such as fog and rain. SAL represents each adversarial condition as a perturbation that transforms an existing dataset into an adversarial dataset. When transforming a dataset, SAL supports severity levels using easily-interpretable real-world units such as meters for fog visibility. SAL's extensible architecture decouples datasets, perturbations, and SLAM algorithms through common interfaces, so users can add new components without rewriting integration code. Moreover, SAL includes a search procedure that finds the severity level of a perturbation at which a SLAM system fails. To showcase the capabilities of SAL, our evaluation integrates seven SLAM algorithms and evaluates them across three datasets under weather, camera, and video transport perturbations.
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spellingShingle SLAM Adversarial Lab: An Extensible Framework for Visual SLAM Robustness Evaluation under Adverse Conditions
Hefny, Mohamed
Dantu, Karthik
Ko, Steven Y.
Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
We present SAL (SLAM Adversarial Lab), a modular framework for evaluating visual SLAM systems under adversarial conditions such as fog and rain. SAL represents each adversarial condition as a perturbation that transforms an existing dataset into an adversarial dataset. When transforming a dataset, SAL supports severity levels using easily-interpretable real-world units such as meters for fog visibility. SAL's extensible architecture decouples datasets, perturbations, and SLAM algorithms through common interfaces, so users can add new components without rewriting integration code. Moreover, SAL includes a search procedure that finds the severity level of a perturbation at which a SLAM system fails. To showcase the capabilities of SAL, our evaluation integrates seven SLAM algorithms and evaluates them across three datasets under weather, camera, and video transport perturbations.
title SLAM Adversarial Lab: An Extensible Framework for Visual SLAM Robustness Evaluation under Adverse Conditions
topic Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17165