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SLAM and driving scene reconstruction

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Keywords: slam, gaussian, driving, reconstruction, lidar

Key facts. SLAM and driving scene reconstruction: 576 papers on arXiv since 2021 (data through 19 Oct 2026). 174 of its 576 mapped papers (30%) cite “Gaussian Splatting SLAM” (2023, arXiv 2312.06741). 12 new papers 1 Oct–19 Oct.

What’s new

1 Oct – 19 Oct 2026

12 new papers, 1 Oct – 19 Oct; 0 this week.

  1. Earlier · 12
  2. MCSplat: Multi-View Photometric and Geometric Consistent Feed-Forward Gaussian Splatting for Driving Scenes also fits: 3D Gaussian splatting methods
  3. GeoV2V: Geometry-Grounded Video Diffusion Model for Driving Scene Generation also fits: Sparse-input reconstruction
  4. DriveWorld3D Evidence Constrained 3D World Modeling and Generative Simulation for Real-World Autonomous Driving
  5. GS-PRM: Gaussian Visual Roadmap for Image-Goal Navigation
  6. When pose graphs are not enough: a failure analysis of pose-graph-based camera estimation for Gaussian splatting
  7. MIRAGE: Metric Inference and Reliability-Aware Gaussian Estimation from Feed-Forward Vision
  8. 2DGS-Planner: Rasterization-based Path Planning in 2D Gaussian Splatting Map
  9. Digital Twin-Driven Real2Sim2Real: Simulator-Conditioned Generation via Paired Driving-Scene Reconstruction also fits: Sparse-input reconstruction
  10. Controllable and Photorealistic Pedestrian Risky Motion Generation for End-to-End Driving Safety Evaluation
  11. F2 SLAM: Turning Feed-Forward Geometry into Persistent Factors for SLAM
All 12
  1. Return-to-Home Feasible Micro-Aerial Vehicle Exploration for 3D Gaussian Splatting Reconstruction
  2. Resolving Mixed Single-Photon LiDAR Returns for Foreground-View and Hidden Scene Reconstruction also fits: Neural surface reconstruction

Foundations

Most cited by papers here

  1. Gaussian Splatting SLAM2023cited by 174 here
  2. DrivingGaussian: Composite Gaussian Splatting for Surrounding Dynamic Autonomous Driving Scenes2023cited by 134 here
  3. GS-SLAM: Dense Visual SLAM with 3D Gaussian Splatting2023cited by 131 here
  4. ESLAM: Efficient Dense SLAM System Based on Hybrid Representation of Signed Distance Fields2022cited by 114 here
  5. Co-SLAM: Joint Coordinate and Sparse Parametric Encodings for Neural Real-Time SLAM2023cited by 111 here

Lineage

The papers this direction builds on, oldest first.

Each paper on the line cites the one before.

  1. 2021Mip-NeRF: A Multiscale Representation for Anti-Aliasing Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 77 here
  2. 2021Mip-NeRF 360: Unbounded Anti-Aliased Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 91 here
  3. 2022Block-NeRF: Scalable Large Scene Neural View Synthesiscited by 86 here
  4. 2023SUDS: Scalable Urban Dynamic Scenescited by 68 here
  5. 2023DrivingGaussian: Composite Gaussian Splatting for Surrounding Dynamic Autonomous Driving Scenescited by 134 here
  6. 2024Street Gaussians: Modeling Dynamic Urban Scenes with Gaussian Splattingcited by 91 here
18 more it builds on, not in this chain
  1. 2021Urban Radiance Fieldscited by 61 here
  2. 2022NeRF-SLAM: Real-Time Dense Monocular SLAM with Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 66 here
  3. 2022ESLAM: Efficient Dense SLAM System Based on Hybrid Representation of Signed Distance Fieldscited by 114 here
  4. 2023NICER-SLAM: Neural Implicit Scene Encoding for RGB SLAMcited by 58 here
  5. 2023Co-SLAM: Joint Coordinate and Sparse Parametric Encodings for Neural Real-Time SLAMcited by 111 here
  6. 20233D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Renderingcited by 416 here
  7. 2023GO-SLAM: Global Optimization for Consistent 3D Instant Reconstructioncited by 75 here
  8. 2023Deformable 3D Gaussians for High-Fidelity Monocular Dynamic Scene Reconstructioncited by 59 here
  9. 20234D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic Scene Renderingcited by 59 here
  10. 2023GS-SLAM: Dense Visual SLAM with 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 131 here
  11. 2023NeuRAD: Neural Rendering for Autonomous Drivingcited by 63 here
  12. 2023Photo-SLAM: Real-time Simultaneous Localization and Photorealistic Mapping for Monocular, Stereo, and RGB-D Camerascited by 110 here
  13. 2023Periodic Vibration Gaussian: Dynamic Urban Scene Reconstruction and Real-time Renderingcited by 84 here
  14. 2023Gaussian-SLAM: Photo-realistic Dense SLAM with Gaussian Splattingcited by 89 here
  15. 2023Gaussian Splatting SLAMcited by 174 here
  16. 2023DUSt3R: Geometric 3D Vision Made Easycited by 71 here
  17. 20242D Gaussian Splatting for Geometrically Accurate Radiance Fieldscited by 79 here
  18. 2024OmniRe: Omni Urban Scene Reconstructioncited by 68 here

The 24 most cited of 1,428.

Browse

30 of 576, ranked 6–35

  1. 6Photo-SLAM: Real-time Simultaneous Localization and Photorealistic Mapping for Monocular, Stereo, and RGB-D Cameras2023110
  2. 7Street Gaussians: Modeling Dynamic Urban Scenes with Gaussian Splatting202491
  3. 8Gaussian-SLAM: Photo-realistic Dense SLAM with Gaussian Splatting202389
  4. 9Periodic Vibration Gaussian: Dynamic Urban Scene Reconstruction and Real-time Rendering202384
  5. 10GO-SLAM: Global Optimization for Consistent 3D Instant Reconstruction202375
  6. 11OmniRe: Omni Urban Scene Reconstruction202468
  7. 12NeRF-SLAM: Real-Time Dense Monocular SLAM with Neural Radiance Fields202266
  8. 13Urban Radiance Fields202161
  9. 14NICER-SLAM: Neural Implicit Scene Encoding for RGB SLAM202358
  10. 15StreetSurf: Extending Multi-view Implicit Surface Reconstruction to Street Views202356
All 30
  1. 16RGBD GS-ICP SLAM202454
  2. 17Orbeez-SLAM: A Real-time Monocular Visual SLAM with ORB Features and NeRF-realized Mapping202253
  3. 18textitS3Gaussian: Self-Supervised Street Gaussians for Autonomous Driving202449
  4. 19Splat-SLAM: Globally Optimized RGB-only SLAM with 3D Gaussians202444
  5. 20SGS-SLAM: Semantic Gaussian Splatting For Neural Dense SLAM202441
  6. 21LoopSplat: Loop Closure by Registering 3D Gaussian Splats202441
  7. 22CG-SLAM: Efficient Dense RGB-D SLAM in a Consistent Uncertainty-aware 3D Gaussian Field202439
  8. 23MASt3R-SLAM: Real-Time Dense SLAM with 3D Reconstruction Priors202438
  9. 24SplatAD: Real-Time Lidar and Camera Rendering with 3D Gaussian Splatting for Autonomous Driving202437
  10. 25SNI-SLAM: Semantic Neural Implicit SLAM202335
  11. 26How NeRFs and 3D Gaussian Splatting are Reshaping SLAM: a Survey202434
  12. 27PLGSLAM: Progressive Neural Scene Represenation with Local to Global Bundle Adjustment202328
  13. 28AutoSplat: Constrained Gaussian Splatting for Autonomous Driving Scene Reconstruction202426
  14. 29DriveDreamer4D: World Models Are Effective Data Machines for 4D Driving Scene Representation202426
  15. 30WildGS-SLAM: Monocular Gaussian Splatting SLAM in Dynamic Environments202525
  16. 31DeSiRe-GS: 4D Street Gaussians for Static-Dynamic Decomposition and Surface Reconstruction for Urban Driving Scenes202425
  17. 32DrivingForward: Feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting for Driving Scene Reconstruction from Flexible Surround-view Input202424
  18. 33HUGSIM: A Real-Time, Photo-Realistic and Closed-Loop Simulator for Autonomous Driving202424
  19. 34RoDyn-SLAM: Robust Dynamic Dense RGB-D SLAM with Neural Radiance Fields202423
  20. 35DG-SLAM: Robust Dynamic Gaussian Splatting SLAM with Hybrid Pose Optimization202423