FeatureSLAM: Feature-enriched 3D gaussian splatting SLAM in real time

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05738v1
• Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2026 11:40:16 GMT
• Title: FeatureSLAM: Feature-enriched 3D gaussian splatting SLAM in real time
• Authors: Christopher Thirgood, Oscar Mendez, Erin Ling, Jon Storey, Simon Hadfield,
• Abstract summary: We present a real-time tracking SLAM system that unifies efficient camera tracking and feature-enriched mapping using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)<n>Our main contribution is integrating dense feature semanticization with semanticization into the novel-view synthesis aligned with a visual foundation model.<n>We obtain 9% lower pose error and 8% higher mapping accuracy compared to recent fixed-set SLAM baselines.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: We present a real-time tracking SLAM system that unifies efficient camera tracking with photorealistic feature-enriched mapping using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Our main contribution is integrating dense feature rasterization into the novel-view synthesis, aligned with a visual foundation model. This yields strong semantics, going beyond basic RGB-D input, aiding both tracking and mapping accuracy. Unlike previous semantic SLAM approaches (which embed pre-defined class labels) FeatureSLAM enables entirely new downstream tasks via free-viewpoint, open-set segmentation. Across standard benchmarks, our method achieves real-time tracking, on par with state-of-the-art systems while improving tracking stability and map fidelity without prohibitive compute. Quantitatively, we obtain 9\% lower pose error and 8\% higher mapping accuracy compared to recent fixed-set SLAM baselines. Our results confirm that real-time feature-embedded SLAM, is not only valuable for enabling new downstream applications. It also improves the performance of the underlying tracking and mapping subsystems, providing semantic and language masking results that are on-par with offline 3DGS models, alongside state-of-the-art tracking, depth and RGB rendering.

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