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A common approach for modeling the environment of an autonomous vehicle are dynamic occupancy grid maps, in which the surrounding is divided into cells, each containing the occupancy and velocity state of its location. Despite the advantage…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Marcel Schreiber , Vasileios Belagiannis , Claudius Gläser , Klaus Dietmayer

Representing the environment is a fundamental task in enabling robots to act autonomously in unknown environments. In this work, we present confidence-rich mapping (CRM), a new algorithm for spatial grid-based mapping of the 3D environment.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi , Eric Heiden , Karol Hausman , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Accurately predicting 3D occupancy grids from visual inputs is critical for autonomous driving, but current discriminative methods struggle with noisy data, incomplete observations, and the complex structures inherent in 3D scenes. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yunshen Wang , Yicheng Liu , Tianyuan Yuan , Yingshi Liang , Xiuyu Yang , Honggang Zhang , Hang Zhao

The problem of active mapping aims to plan an informative sequence of sensing views given a limited budget such as distance traveled. This paper consider active occupancy grid mapping using a range sensor, such as LiDAR or depth camera.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Arash Asgharivaskasi , Shumon Koga , Nikolay Atanasov

One of the most important parts of environment perception is the detection of obstacles in the surrounding of the vehicle. To achieve that, several sensors like radars, LiDARs and cameras are installed in autonomous vehicles. The produced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Florian Piewak

In this paper we provide an overview of a new framework for robot perception, real-world modelling, and navigation that uses a stochastic tesselated representation of spatial information called the Occupancy Grid. The Occupancy Grid is a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-04-05 A. Elfes

Automation driving techniques have seen tremendous progresses these last years, particularly due to a better perception of the environment. In order to provide safe yet not too conservative driving in complex urban environment, data fusion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Michelle Valente , Cyril Joly , Arnaud de la Fortelle

Fast, collision-free motion through unknown environments remains a challenging problem for robotic systems. In these situations, the robot's ability to reason about its future motion is often severely limited by sensor field of view (FOV).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Kapil Katyal , Katie Popek , Chris Paxton , Joseph Moore , Kevin Wolfe , Philippe Burlina , Gregory D. Hager

Manually specifying features that capture the diversity in traffic environments is impractical. Consequently, learning-based agents cannot realize their full potential as neural motion planners for autonomous vehicles. Instead, this work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Eivind Meyer , Lars Frederik Peiss , Matthias Althoff

Accurate environment perception is essential for automated vehicles. Since occlusions and inaccuracies regularly occur, the exchange and combination of perception data of multiple vehicles seems promising. This paper describes a method to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-06 Bastian Lampe , Raphael van Kempen , Timo Woopen , Alexandru Kampmann , Bassam Alrifaee , Lutz Eckstein

Occupancy prediction infers fine-grained 3D geometry and semantics from camera images of the surrounding environment, making it a critical perception task for autonomous driving. Existing methods either adopt dense grids as scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yunxiao Shi , Yinhao Zhu , Shizhong Han , Jisoo Jeong , Amin Ansari , Hong Cai , Fatih Porikli

The task of vision-based 3D occupancy prediction aims to reconstruct 3D geometry and estimate its semantic classes from 2D color images, where the 2D-to-3D view transformation is an indispensable step. Most previous methods conduct forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Yuan Wu , Zhiqiang Yan , Zhengxue Wang , Xiang Li , Le Hui , Jian Yang

Existing solutions for 3D semantic occupancy prediction typically treat the task as a one-shot 3D voxel-wise segmentation perception problem. These discriminative methods focus on learning the mapping between the inputs and occupancy map in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Guoqing Wang , Zhongdao Wang , Pin Tang , Jilai Zheng , Xiangxuan Ren , Bailan Feng , Chao Ma

Environment modeling utilizing sensor data fusion and object tracking is crucial for safe automated driving. In recent years, the classical occupancy grid map approach, which assumes a static environment, has been extended to dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Christopher Diehl , Eduard Feicho , Alexander Schwambach , Thomas Dammeier , Eric Mares , Torsten Bertram

Today's mobile robots are expected to operate in complex environments they share with humans. To allow intuitive human-robot collaboration, robots require a human-like understanding of their surroundings in terms of semantically classified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Markus Hiller , Chen Qiu , Florian Particke , Christian Hofmann , Jörn Thielecke

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

Autonomous agents rely on sensor data to construct representations of their environments, essential for predicting future events and planning their actions. However, sensor measurements suffer from limited range, occlusions, and sensor…

Automated driving fundamentally requires knowledge about the surrounding geometry of the scene. Modern approaches use only captured images to predict occupancy maps that represent the geometry. Training these approaches requires accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Jonas Kälble , Sascha Wirges , Maxim Tatarchenko , Eddy Ilg

Occupancy Network has recently attracted much attention in autonomous driving. Instead of monocular 3D detection and recent bird's eye view(BEV) models predicting 3D bounding box of obstacles, Occupancy Network predicts the category of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Mingjie Lu , Yuanxian Huang , Ji Liu , Xingliang Huang , Dong Li , Jinzhang Peng , Lu Tian , Emad Barsoum

We present a new method of learning a continuous occupancy field for use in robot navigation. Occupancy grid maps, or variants of, are possibly the most widely used and accepted method of building a map of a robot's environment. Various…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Nicholas O'Dell , Christopher Renton , Adrian Wills