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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

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

Grid maps are widely used in robotics to represent obstacles in the environment and differentiating dynamic objects from static infrastructure is essential for many practical applications. In this work, we present a methods that uses a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Florian Piewak , Timo Rehfeld , Michael Weber , J. Marius Zöllner

Forecasting the scalable future states of surrounding traffic participants in complex traffic scenarios is a critical capability for autonomous vehicles, as it enables safe and feasible decision-making. Recent successes in learning-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Haochen Liu , Zhiyu Huang , Chen Lv

This paper presents a method to predict the evolution of a complex traffic scenario with multiple objects. The current state of the scenario is assumed to be known from sensors and the prediction is taking into account various hypotheses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Parthasarathy Nadarajan , Michael Botsch

Predicting the future location of vehicles is essential for safety-critical applications such as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving. This paper introduces a novel approach to simultaneously predict both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Yu Yao , Mingze Xu , Chiho Choi , David J. Crandall , Ella M. Atkins , Behzad Dariush

Environment modeling in autonomous driving is realized by two fundamental approaches, grid-based and feature-based approach. Both methods interpret the environment differently and show some situation-dependent beneficial realizations. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Nils Rexin , Marcel Musch , Klaus Dietmayer

The advance towards higher levels of automation within the field of automated driving is accompanied by increasing requirements for the operational safety of vehicles. Induced by the limitation of computational resources, trade-offs between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Matti Henning , Jan Strohbeck , Michael Buchholz , Klaus Dietmayer

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

Robots often have to deal with the challenges of operating in dynamic and sometimes unpredictable environments. Although an occupancy map of the environment is sufficient for navigation of a mobile robot or manipulation tasks with a robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Ransalu Senanayake , Fabio Ramos

This paper describes a system whereby a robot detects and track human-meaningful navigational cues as it navigates in an indoor environment. It is intended as the sensor front-end for a mobile robot system that can communicate its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Payam Nikdel , Richard Vaughan

Occupancy grids encode for hot spots on a map that is represented by a two dimensional grid of disjoint cells. The problem is to recursively update the probability that each cell in the grid is occupied, based on a sequence of sensor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-13 Christopher Robbiano , Edwin K. P. Chong , Mahmood R. Azimi-Sadjadi , Louis L. Scharf , Ali Pezeshki

Determining the occupancy status of locations in the environment is a fundamental task for safety-critical robotic applications. Traditional occupancy grid mapping methods subdivide the environment into a grid of voxels, each associated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Benxu Tang , Yunfan Ren , Yixi Cai , Fanze Kong , Wenyi Liu , Fangcheng Zhu , Longji Yin , Liuyu Shi , Fu Zhang

Accurate prediction of driving scenes is essential for road safety and autonomous driving. Occupancy Grid Maps (OGMs) are commonly employed for scene prediction due to their structured spatial representation, flexibility across sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Rabbia Asghar , Wenqian Liu , Lukas Rummelhard , Anne Spalanzani , Christian Laugier

This paper introduces a novel hybrid architecture that enhances radar-based Dynamic Occupancy Grid Mapping (DOGM) for autonomous vehicles, integrating deep learning for state-classification. Traditional radar-based DOGM often faces…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Max Peter Ronecker , Xavier Diaz , Michael Karner , Daniel Watzenig

As a novel 3D scene representation, semantic occupancy has gained much attention in autonomous driving. However, existing occupancy prediction methods mainly focus on designing better occupancy representations, such as tri-perspective view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Zhiwei Lin , Hongbo Jin , Yongtao Wang , Yufei Wei , Nan Dong

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

The task of motion prediction is pivotal for autonomous driving systems, providing crucial data to choose a vehicle behavior strategy within its surroundings. Existing motion prediction techniques primarily focus on predicting the future…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Youshaa Murhij , Dmitry Yudin

A self-driving vehicle (SDV) must be able to perceive its surroundings and predict the future behavior of other traffic participants. Existing works either perform object detection followed by trajectory forecasting of the detected objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Ben Agro , Quinlan Sykora , Sergio Casas , Raquel Urtasun

A self-driving vehicle must understand its environment to determine the appropriate action. Traditional autonomy systems rely on object detection to find the agents in the scene. However, object detection assumes a discrete set of objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Sourav Biswas , Sergio Casas , Quinlan Sykora , Ben Agro , Abbas Sadat , Raquel Urtasun