VGGT-GS SLAM: Uncalibrated Monocular Gaussian Splatting SLAM with Feed-Forward Priors
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Abstract (arXiv)
We present VGGT-GS SLAM, a monocular 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM system designed for uncalibrated videos. Starting from feed-forward VGGT pose and depth priors, our system performs submap differentiable bundle adjustment that jointly refines camera poses and a 3D Gaussian map, while optimizing submap-shared intrinsics and radial--tangential distortion through analytic calibration Jacobians. To improve global consistency, we introduce Gaussian-native alignment (GNA) for camera-anchored scale refinement between sequential submaps and verification of loop-closure candidates. Extensive experiments on standard indoor benchmarks show consistent improvements in localization accuracy and strong rendering quality under uncalibrated settings, establishing a strong baseline for uncalibrated Gaussian SLAM.
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- 2018The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metriccited by 11,177
- 20233D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Renderingcited by 6,226
- 2017ScanNet: Richly-annotated 3D Reconstructions of Indoor Scenescited by 3,117
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- 2025VGGT: Visual Geometry Grounded Transformercited by 1,539
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- 2019The Replica Dataset: A Digital Replica of Indoor Spacescited by 904
- 2020ORB-SLAM3: An Accurate Open-Source Library for Visual, Visual-Inertial and Multi-Map SLAMcited by 878
- 2025Depth Anything 3: Recovering the Visual Space from Any Viewscited by 692
- 2021DROID-SLAM: Deep Visual SLAM for Monocular, Stereo, and RGB-D Camerascited by 687
- 2021NICE-SLAM: Neural Implicit Scalable Encoding for SLAMcited by 589
- 2016Direct Sparse Odometrycited by 485
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- 2021iMAP: Implicit Mapping and Positioning in Real-Timecited by 476
- 2023Gaussian Splatting SLAMcited by 415
- 2023SplaTAM: Splat, Track & Map 3D Gaussians for Dense RGB-D SLAMcited by 388
- 2025Fast3R: Towards 3D Reconstruction of 1000+ Images in One Forward Passcited by 367
- 2024gsplat: An Open-Source Library for Gaussian Splattingcited by 285
- 2023GS-SLAM: Dense Visual SLAM with 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 278
- 2024MASt3R-SLAM: Real-Time Dense SLAM with 3D Reconstruction Priorscited by 205
- 2018DeepV2D: Video to Depth with Differentiable Structure from Motioncited by 185
- 2023Co-SLAM: Joint Coordinate and Sparse Parametric Encodings for Neural Real-Time SLAMcited by 184
- 2023NICER-SLAM: Neural Implicit Scene Encoding for RGB SLAMcited by 164
- 2023Gaussian-SLAM: Photo-realistic Dense SLAM with Gaussian Splattingcited by 154
- 2023Optimal Transport Aggregation for Visual Place Recognitioncited by 152
- 2023Photo-SLAM: Real-time Simultaneous Localization and Photorealistic Mapping for Monocular, Stereo, and RGB-D Camerascited by 141
- 2025VGGT-SLAM: Dense RGB SLAM Optimized on the SL(4) Manifoldcited by 136
- 2023GO-SLAM: Global Optimization for Consistent 3D Instant Reconstructioncited by 133
- 2024Deep Patch Visual SLAMcited by 71
- 2024Splat-SLAM: Globally Optimized RGB-only SLAM with 3D Gaussianscited by 66
- 2024LoopSplat: Loop Closure by Registering 3D Gaussian Splatscited by 60
- 2024GeoCalib: Learning Single-image Calibration with Geometric Optimizationcited by 52
- 2024GlORIE-SLAM: Globally Optimized RGB-only Implicit Encoding Point Cloud SLAMcited by 36
- 2026VGGT-SLAM 2.0: Real-time Dense Feed-forward Scene Reconstructioncited by 28
- 2024HI-SLAM2: Geometry-Aware Gaussian SLAM for Fast Monocular Scene Reconstructioncited by 25
- 2024DROID-Splat: Combining end-to-end SLAM with 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 15
- 2019Degeneracy in Self-Calibration Revisited and a Deep Learning Solution for Uncalibrated SLAMcited by 10
- 2024GLC-SLAM: Gaussian Splatting SLAM with Efficient Loop Closurecited by 7
- 2025EC3R-SLAM: Efficient and Consistent Monocular Dense SLAM with Feed-Forward 3D Reconstructioncited by 5
- 2026VGGT-SLAM++cited by 4
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- 2026AIM-SLAM: Dense Monocular SLAM via Adaptive and Informative Multi-View Keyframe Prioritization with Foundation Modelcited by 1
- 2026GeoGS-SLAM: Online Monocular Reconstruction Using Gaussian Splatting with Geometric Priorscited by 1
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