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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…

Predicting the future occupancy state of an environment is important to enable informed decisions for autonomous vehicles. Common challenges in occupancy prediction include vanishing dynamic objects and blurred predictions, especially for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Maneekwan Toyungyernsub , Masha Itkina , Ransalu Senanayake , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Robotic perception requires the modeling of both 3D geometry and semantics. Existing methods typically focus on estimating 3D bounding boxes, neglecting finer geometric details and struggling to handle general, out-of-vocabulary objects. 3D…

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Trajectory planning involves generating a series of space points to be followed in the near future. However, due to the complex and uncertain nature of the driving environment, it is impractical for autonomous vehicles~(AVs) to exhaustively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Ren Xin , Jie Cheng , Sheng Wang , Ming Liu

Accurate and interpretable motion planning is essential for autonomous vehicles (AVs) navigating complex and uncertain environments. While recent end-to-end occupancy prediction methods have improved environmental understanding, they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Shuqi Shen , Junjie Yang , Hongliang Lu , Hui Zhong , Qiming Zhang , Xinhu Zheng

The field of autonomous driving is experiencing a surge of interest in world models, which aim to predict potential future scenarios based on historical observations. In this paper, we introduce DFIT-OccWorld, an efficient 3D occupancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Haiming Zhang , Ying Xue , Xu Yan , Jiacheng Zhang , Weichao Qiu , Dongfeng Bai , Bingbing Liu , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Most prior motion prediction endeavors in autonomous driving have inadequately encoded future scenarios, leading to predictions that may fail to accurately capture the diverse movements of agents (e.g., vehicles or pedestrians). To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Mingkun Wang , Xiaoguang Ren , Ruochun Jin , Minglong Li , Xiaochuan Zhang , Changqian Yu , Mingxu Wang , Wenjing Yang

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

Grid mapping is a well established approach for environment perception in robotic and automotive applications. Early work suggests estimating the occupancy state of each grid cell in a robot's environment using a Bayesian filter to…

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

Traffic flow prediction is an important part of smart transportation. The goal is to predict future traffic conditions based on historical data recorded by sensors and the traffic network. As the city continues to build, parts of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-27 Yanan Xiao , Minyu Liu , Zichen Zhang , Lu Jiang , Minghao Yin , Jianan Wang

In the context of autonomous vehicles, one of the most crucial tasks is to estimate the risk of the undertaken action. While navigating in complex urban environments, the Bayesian occupancy grid is one of the most popular types of maps,…

For an autonomous vehicle it is essential to observe the ongoing dynamics of a scene and consequently predict imminent future scenarios to ensure safety to itself and others. This can be done using different sensors and modalities. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Andrea Ciamarra , Federico Becattini , Lorenzo Seidenari , Alberto Del Bimbo

In a given scenario, simultaneously and accurately predicting every possible interaction of traffic participants is an important capability for autonomous vehicles. The majority of current researches focused on the prediction of an single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Yeping Hu , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Effective interaction modeling and behavior prediction of dynamic agents play a significant role in interactive motion planning for autonomous robots. Although existing methods have improved prediction accuracy, few research efforts have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Victoria M. Dax , Jiachen Li , Enna Sachdeva , Nakul Agarwal , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

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

Due to the complex and changing interactions in dynamic scenarios, motion forecasting is a challenging problem in autonomous driving. Most existing works exploit static road graphs to characterize scenarios and are limited in modeling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Xing Gao , Xiaogang Jia , Yikang Li , Hongkai Xiong

Environment prediction frameworks are critical for the safe navigation of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in dynamic settings. LiDAR-generated occupancy grid maps (L-OGMs) offer a robust bird's-eye view for the scene representation, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Bernard Lange , Masha Itkina , Jiachen Li , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

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

Occupancy mapping has been a key enabler of mobile robotics. Originally based on a discrete grid representation, occupancy mapping has evolved towards continuous representations that can predict the occupancy status at any location and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Cedric Le Gentil , Cedric Pradalier , Timothy D. Barfoot