Shuhao Zhai

Zhihao Cao, Qi Shao, Shuhao Zhai et al.

Collaborative dense SLAM is essential for multi-robot teams to achieve scalable and consistent 3D perception across large-scale outdoor environments. Existing systems typically depend on depth sensors, incurring significant payload, power, and calibration costs. Monocular RGB cameras are a lightweight alternative, but collaborative monocular dense SLAM remains difficult due to scale ambiguity, unreliable inter-agent data association, especially in outdoor scenes where low overlap and repetitive structures make traditional feature matching unreliable, motivating robust geometric information. We propose CoMo3R-SLAM, the first collaborative monocular dense RGB SLAM system that leverages robust learned feed-forward 3D reconstruction priors for outdoor multi-agent mapping. Each agent runs a prior-guided front-end for real-time tracking and local dense fusion, while a coordinator performs dense pointmap matching for cross-agent verification, closed-form Sim(3) gauge synchronization, and GPU-accelerated global bundle adjustment with segment-level depth optimization. Requiring neither depth sensors nor parametric intrinsics, our system produces robust cross-agent constraints and globally consistent metric maps from monocular RGB alone. On Tanks and Temples and Waymo sequences, CoMo3R-SLAM achieves the best ATE on three of four Tanks and Temples scenes and competitive Waymo accuracy, matching or exceeding state-of-the-art RGB-D methods while running online at 8 FPS.

Zhihao Cao, Qi Shao, Shuhao Zhai et al.

Collaborative photorealistic 3D reconstruction from multiple agents enables rapid large-scale scene capture for virtual production and cooperative multi-robot exploration. While recent 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) SLAM algorithms can generate high-fidelity real-time mapping, most of the existing multi-agent Gaussian SLAM methods still rely on RGB-D sensors to obtain metric depth and simplify cross-agent alignment, which limits the deployment on lightweight, low-cost, or power-constrained robotic platforms. To address this challenge, we propose MAGS-SLAM, the first RGB-only multi-agent 3DGS SLAM framework for collaborative scene reconstruction. Each agent independently builds local monocular Gaussian submaps and transmits compact submap summaries rather than raw observations or dense maps. To facilitate robust collaboration in the presence of monocular scale ambiguity, our framework integrates compact submap communication, geometry- and appearance-aware loop verification, and occupancy-aware Gaussian fusion, enabling coherent global reconstruction without active depth sensors. We further introduce ReplicaMultiagent Plus benchmark for evaluating collaborative Gaussian SLAM. Intensive experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets show that MAGS-SLAM achieves competitive tracking accuracy and comparable or superior rendering quality to state-of-the-art RGB-D collaborative Gaussian SLAM methods while relying only RGB images.