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Radar presents a promising alternative to lidar and vision in autonomous vehicle applications, able to detect objects at long range under a variety of weather conditions. However, distinguishing between occupied and free space from raw…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Rob Weston , Sarah Cen , Paul Newman , Ingmar Posner

Human driver can easily describe the complex traffic scene by visual system. Such an ability of precise perception is essential for driver's planning. To achieve this, a geometry-aware representation that quantizes the physical 3D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Chonghao Sima , Wenwen Tong , Tai Wang , Li Chen , Silei Wu , Hanming Deng , Yi Gu , Lewei Lu , Ping Luo , Dahua Lin , Hongyang Li

SLAM (Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping) is a crucial component for robotic systems, providing a map of an environment, the current location and previous trajectory of a robot. While 3D LiDAR SLAM has received notable improvements in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Leon Davies , Baihua Li , Mohamad Saada , Simon Sølvsten , Qinggang Meng

In autonomous navigation of mobile robots, sensors suffer from massive occlusion in cluttered environments, leaving significant amount of space unknown during planning. In practice, treating the unknown space in optimistic or pessimistic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Lizi Wang , Hongkai Ye , Qianhao Wang , Yuman Gao , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

This paper investigates the usefulness of reasoning about the uncertain presence of obstacles during path planning, which typically stems from the usage of probabilistic occupancy grid maps for representing the environment when mapping via…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Jacopo Banfi , Lindsey Woo , Mark Campbell

For mobile robots to operate autonomously in general environments, perception is required in the form of a dense metric map. For this purpose, we present the stochastic triangular mesh (STM) mapping technique: a 2.5-D representation of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Clint D. Lombard , Corné E. van Daalen

Prediction of dynamic environment is crucial to safe navigation of an autonomous vehicle. Urban traffic scenes are particularly challenging to forecast due to complex interactions between various dynamic agents, such as vehicles and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Rabbia Asghar , Lukas Rummelhard , Anne Spalanzani , Christian Laugier

The occupancy grid map is a critical component of autonomous positioning and navigation in the mobile robotic system, as many other systems' performance depends heavily on it. To guarantee the quality of the occupancy grid maps, researchers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Fuqin Deng , Hua Feng , Mingjian Liang , Qi Feng , Ningbo Yi , Yong Yang , Yuan Gao , Junfeng Chen , Tin Lun Lam

Dense 3D semantic occupancy perception is critical for mobile robots operating in pedestrian-rich environments, yet it remains underexplored compared to its application in autonomous driving. To address this gap, we present MobileOcc, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Junseo Kim , Guido Dumont , Xinyu Gao , Gang Chen , Holger Caesar , Javier Alonso-Mora

The complete collection of sparse resources in large, unknown environments remains a challenging problem for autonomous robot swarms. Previous studies have shown that a substantial portion of total mission time is consumed during the final…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Qi Arturo Gonzalez , Yifeng Gao , Li Zhang , Qi Lu

Traditional approaches to mapping of environments in robotics make use of spatially discretized representations, such as occupancy grid maps. Modern systems, e.g. in agriculture or automotive applications, are equipped with a variety of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Timo Korthals , Julian Exner , Thomas Schöpping , Marc Hesse

Reliable pose estimation in previously unseen environments is a fundamental capability of autonomous systems. Existing LiDAR odometry methods typically employ point-, surfel-, or NDT-based map representations, which are distinct from the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Johannes Scherer , Sebastian Hirt , Henri Meeß

In recent years, autonomous driving has garnered escalating attention for its potential to relieve drivers' burdens and improve driving safety. Vision-based 3D occupancy prediction, which predicts the spatial occupancy status and semantics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yanan Zhang , Jinqing Zhang , Zengran Wang , Junhao Xu , Di Huang

We present a generic evidential grid mapping pipeline designed for imaging sensors such as LiDARs and cameras. Our grid-based evidential model contains semantic estimates for cell occupancy and ground separately. We specify the estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Sven Richter , Frank Bieder , Sascha Wirges , Christoph Stiller

Robotic grasp detection is a fundamental capability for intelligent manipulation in unstructured environments. Previous work mainly employed visual and tactile fusion to achieve stable grasp, while, the whole process depending heavily on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Teng Xue , Wenhai Liu , Mingshuo Han , Zhenyu Pan , Jin Ma , Quanquan Shao , Weiming Wang

Multi-robot autonomous exploration in an unknown environment is an important application in robotics.Traditional exploration methods only use information around frontier points or viewpoints, ignoring spatial information of unknown areas.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Di Meng , Tianhao Zhao , Chaoyu Xue , Jun Wu , Qiuguo Zhu

3D semantic occupancy prediction is one of the crucial tasks of autonomous driving. It enables precise and safe interpretation and navigation in complex environments. Reliable predictions rely on effective sensor fusion, as different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Tomislav Pavković , Mohammad-Ali Nikouei Mahani , Johannes Niedermayer , Johannes Betz

Autonomous driving in complex urban scenarios requires 3D perception to be both comprehensive and precise. Traditional 3D perception methods focus on object detection, resulting in sparse representations that lack environmental detail.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Chao Chen , Ruoyu Wang , Yuliang Guo , Cheng Zhao , Xinyu Huang , Chen Feng , Liu Ren

3D occupancy prediction plays a pivotal role in the realm of autonomous driving, as it provides a comprehensive understanding of the driving environment. Most existing methods construct dense scene representations for occupancy prediction,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zichen Yu , Quanli Liu , Wei Wang , Liyong Zhang , Xiaoguang Zhao

In the context of autonomous robots, one of the most important tasks is to prevent potential damage to the robot during navigation. For this purpose, it is often assumed that one must deal with known probabilistic obstacles, then compute…

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