AIM-SLAM: Dense Monocular SLAM via Adaptive and Informative Multi-View Keyframe Prioritization with Foundation Model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05097v2
• Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:11:46 GMT
• Title: AIM-SLAM: Dense Monocular SLAM via Adaptive and Informative Multi-View Keyframe Prioritization with Foundation Model
• Abstract summary: AIM-SLAM is a dense monocular SLAM framework that exploits an adaptive and informative multi-view prioritization.<n>We formulate a joint multi-view Sim optimization that enforces consistent alignment across selected views.<n>The effectiveness of AIM-SLAM is demonstrated on real-world datasets, where it achieves state-of-the-art performance in both pose estimation and dense reconstruction.
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• Abstract: Recent advances in geometric foundation models have emerged as a promising alternative for addressing the challenge of dense reconstruction in monocular visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Although geometric foundation models enable SLAM to leverage variable input views, the previous methods remain confined to two-view pairs or fixed-length inputs without sufficient deliberation of geometric context for view selection. To tackle this problem, we propose AIM-SLAM, a dense monocular SLAM framework that exploits an adaptive and informative multi-view keyframe prioritization with dense pointmap predictions from visual geometry grounded transformer (VGGT). Specifically, we introduce the selective information- and geometric-aware multi-view adaptation (SIGMA) module, which employs voxel overlap and information gain to retrieve a candidate set of keyframes and adaptively determine its size. Furthermore, we formulate a joint multi-view Sim(3) optimization that enforces consistent alignment across selected views, substantially improving pose estimation accuracy. The effectiveness of AIM-SLAM is demonstrated on real-world datasets, where it achieves state-of-the-art performance in both pose estimation and dense reconstruction. Our system supports ROS integration, with code is available at https://aimslam.github.io/.

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