arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-07-09
Track2Map: Online Deformable SLAM with Motion-Aware Pose Optimization in Robotic Surgery
Tianyi Song, Sierra Bonilla, Xinwei Ju, Evangelos Mazomenos, Danail Stoyanov, Adam Schmidt, et al.
Gaussian splatting is the current state-of-the-art for dense, deformable 3D anatomy reconstruction in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RAMIS); however, most pipelines are offline and depend on accurate camera trajectory priors (often from robotic kinematics), limiting a…