# NGD-SLAM: Towards Real-Time Dynamic SLAM without GPU

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07392 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.07392/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 17 of its 45 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 12 May 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 17 of 17)

- [Segment Anything](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.02643/) (2023)
- [Mask R-CNN](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.06870/) (2017)
- [You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1506.02640/) (2015)
- [SegNet: A Deep Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Architecture for Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1511.00561/) (2015)
- [ORB-SLAM: a Versatile and Accurate Monocular SLAM System](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1502.00956/) (2015)
- [ORB-SLAM3: An Accurate Open-Source Library for Visual, Visual-Inertial and Multi-Map SLAM](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.11898/) (2020)
- [ORB-SLAM2: an Open-Source SLAM System for Monocular, Stereo and RGB-D Cameras](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1610.06475/) (2016)
- [VINS-Mono: A Robust and Versatile Monocular Visual-Inertial State Estimator](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1708.03852/) (2017)
- [SegGPT: Segmenting Everything In Context](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.03284/) (2023)
- [ReFusion: 3D Reconstruction in Dynamic Environments for RGB-D Cameras Exploiting Residuals](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.02082/) (2019)
- [DynaSLAM: Tracking, Mapping and Inpainting in Dynamic Scenes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1806.05620/) (2018)
- [DS-SLAM: A Semantic Visual SLAM towards Dynamic Environments](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1809.08379/) (2018)
- [Refusion: Enabling Large-Size Realistic Image Restoration with Latent-Space Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.08291/) (2023)
- [FlowFusion: Dynamic Dense RGB-D SLAM Based on Optical Flow](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.05102/) (2020)
- [PVO: Panoptic Visual Odometry](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.01610/) (2022)
- [CFP-SLAM: A Real-time Visual SLAM Based on Coarse-to-Fine Probability in Dynamic Environments](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.01938/) (2022)
- [Towards Real-time Semantic RGB-D SLAM in Dynamic Environments](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.01316/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [StreamTTO: Efficient Online Test-Time Optimization for Video Depth Completion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.01765/) (2026)
- [GeneA-SLAM2: Dynamic SLAM with AutoEncoder-Preprocessed Genetic Keypoints Resampling and Depth Variance-Guided Dynamic Region Removal](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.02736/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Many existing visual SLAM methods can achieve high localization accuracy in dynamic environments by leveraging deep learning to mask moving objects. However, these methods incur significant computational overhead as the camera tracking needs to wait for the deep neural network to generate mask at each frame, and they typically require GPUs for real-time operation, which restricts their practicality in real-world robotic applications. Therefore, this paper proposes a real-time dynamic SLAM system that runs exclusively on a CPU. Our approach incorporates a mask propagation mechanism that decouples camera tracking and deep learning-based masking for each frame. We also introduce a hybrid tracking strategy that integrates ORB features with optical flow methods, enhancing both robustness and efficiency by selectively allocating computational resources to input frames. Compared to previous methods, our system maintains high localization accuracy in dynamic environments while achieving a tracking frame rate of 60 FPS on a laptop CPU. These results demonstrate the feasibility of utilizing deep learning for dynamic SLAM without GPU support. Since most existing dynamic SLAM systems are not open-source, we make our code publicly available at: https://github.com/yuhaozhang7/NGD-SLAM