Dream-SLAM: Dreaming the Unseen for Active SLAM in Dynamic Environments

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21967v1
• Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:48:49 GMT
• Title: Dream-SLAM: Dreaming the Unseen for Active SLAM in Dynamic Environments
• Authors: Xiangqi Meng, Pengxu Hou, Zhenjun Zhao, Javier Civera, Daniel Cremers, Hesheng Wang, Haoang Li,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel monocular active SLAM method, Dream-SLAM.<n>It is based on dreaming cross-spatio-temporal images and semantically plausible structures of partially observed dynamic environments.<n>Experiments on both public and self-collected datasets demonstrate that Dream-SLAM outperforms state-of-the-art methods in localization accuracy, mapping quality, and exploration efficiency.
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• Abstract: In addition to the core tasks of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), active SLAM additionally in- volves generating robot actions that enable effective and efficient exploration of unknown environments. However, existing active SLAM pipelines are limited by three main factors. First, they inherit the restrictions of the underlying SLAM modules that they may be using. Second, their motion planning strategies are typically shortsighted and lack long-term vision. Third, most approaches struggle to handle dynamic scenes. To address these limitations, we propose a novel monocular active SLAM method, Dream-SLAM, which is based on dreaming cross-spatio-temporal images and semantically plausible structures of partially observed dynamic environments. The generated cross-spatio-temporal im- ages are fused with real observations to mitigate noise and data incompleteness, leading to more accurate camera pose estimation and a more coherent 3D scene representation. Furthermore, we integrate dreamed and observed scene structures to enable long- horizon planning, producing farsighted trajectories that promote efficient and thorough exploration. Extensive experiments on both public and self-collected datasets demonstrate that Dream-SLAM outperforms state-of-the-art methods in localization accuracy, mapping quality, and exploration efficiency. Source code will be publicly available upon paper acceptance.

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