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While Open Set Semantic Mapping and 3D Semantic Scene Graphs (3DSSGs) are established paradigms in robotic perception, deploying them effectively to support high-level reasoning in large-scale, real-world environments remains a significant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Martin Günther , Felix Igelbrink , Oscar Lima , Lennart Niecksch , Marian Renz , Martin Atzmueller

We solve the problem of 6-DoF localisation and 3D dense reconstruction in spatial environments as approximate Bayesian inference in a deep state-space model. Our approach leverages both learning and domain knowledge from multiple-view…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-16 Atanas Mirchev , Baris Kayalibay , Patrick van der Smagt , Justin Bayer

Detection and segmentation of moving obstacles, along with prediction of the future occupancy states of the local environment, are essential for autonomous vehicles to proactively make safe and informed decisions. In this paper, we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Maneekwan Toyungyernsub , Esen Yel , Jiachen Li , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

In Robotics, especially in this era of autonomous driving, mapping is one key ability of a robot to be able to navigate through an environment, localize on it and analyze its traversability. To allow for real-time execution on constrained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Enrico Piazza , Andrea Romanoni , Matteo Matteucci

Self-supervision for semantic occupancy estimation is appealing as it removes the labour-intensive manual annotation, thus allowing one to scale to larger autonomous driving datasets. Superquadrics offer an expressive shape family very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Seamie Hayes , Alexandre Boulch , Andrei Bursuc , Reenu Mohandas , Ganesh Sistu , Tim Brophy , Ciaran Eising

Visual Odometry (VO) plays a pivotal role in autonomous systems, with a principal challenge being the lack of depth information in camera images. This paper introduces OCC-VO, a novel framework that capitalizes on recent advances in deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Heng Li , Yifan Duan , Xinran Zhang , Haiyi Liu , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

3D semantic occupancy prediction aims to reconstruct the 3D geometry and semantics of the surrounding environment. With dense voxel labels, prior works typically formulate it as a dense segmentation task, independently classifying each…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Wuyang Li , Zhu Yu , Alexandre Alahi

We present SOccDPT, a memory-efficient approach for 3D semantic occupancy prediction from monocular image input using dense prediction transformers. To address the limitations of existing methods trained on structured traffic datasets, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Aditya Nalgunda Ganesh

We introduce an approach for the real-time (2Hz) creation of a dense map and alignment of a moving robotic agent within that map by rendering using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). This is done by recasting the scan alignment part of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Julian Ryde , Xuchu , Ding

Surgical automation has the potential to enable increased precision and reduce the per-patient workload of overburdened human surgeons. An effective automation system must be able to sense and map subsurface anatomy, such as tumors,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Brian Y. Cho , Tucker Hermans , Alan Kuntz

Semantic and panoptic occupancy prediction for road scene analysis provides a dense 3D representation of the ego vehicle's surroundings. Current camera-only approaches typically rely on costly dense 3D supervision or require training models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Andrew Caunes , Thierry Chateau , Vincent Fremont

A detailed environment representation is a crucial component of automated vehicles. Using single range sensor scans, data is often too sparse and subject to occlusions. Therefore, we present a method to augment occupancy grid maps from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Sascha Wirges , Felix Hartenbach , Christoph Stiller

Panoptic occupancy poses a novel challenge by aiming to integrate instance occupancy and semantic occupancy within a unified framework. However, there is still a lack of efficient solutions for panoptic occupancy. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Zichen Yu , Changyong Shu , Qianpu Sun , Yifan Bian , Xiaobao Wei , Jiangyong Yu , Zongdai Liu , Dawei Yang , Hui Li , Yan Chen

Open-vocabulary 3D occupancy is vital for embodied agents, which need to understand complex indoor environments where semantic categories are abundant and evolve beyond fixed taxonomies. While recent work has explored open-vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Changqing Zhou , Yueru Luo , Han Zhang , Zeyu Jiang , Changhao Chen

Autonomous driving requires forecasting both geometry and semantics over time to effectively reason about future environment states. Existing vision-based occupancy forecasting methods focus on motion-related categories such as static and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Riya Mohan , Juana Valeria Hurtado , Rohit Mohan , Abhinav Valada

Intelligent agents gather information and perceive semantics within the environments before taking on given tasks. The agents store the collected information in the form of environment models that compactly represent the surrounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Ue-Hwan Kim , Jin-Man Park , Taek-Jin Song , Jong-Hwan Kim

Semantic segmentation is the problem of assigning a class label to every pixel in an image, and is an important component of an autonomous vehicle vision stack for facilitating scene understanding and object detection. However, many of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Christopher J. Holder , Muhammad Shafique

We present a real-time semantic mapping approach for mobile vision systems with a 2D to 3D object detection pipeline and rapid data association for generated landmarks. Besides the semantic map enrichment the associated detections are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Thorsten Hempel , Ayoub Al-Hamadi

Open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding presents a significant challenge in computer vision, with wide-ranging applications in embodied agents and augmented reality systems. Existing methods adopt neurel rendering methods as 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Jun Guo , Xiaojian Ma , Yue Fan , Huaping Liu , Qing Li

Safe path planning is a crucial component in autonomous robotics. The many approaches to find a collision free path can be categorically divided into trajectory optimisers and sampling-based methods. When planning using occupancy maps, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Gilad Francis , Lionel Ott , Fabio Ramos