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3D environment recognition is essential for autonomous driving systems, as autonomous vehicles require a comprehensive understanding of surrounding scenes. Recently, the predominant approach to define this real-life problem is through 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Huizhou Chen , Jiangyi Wang , Yuxin Li , Na Zhao , Jun Cheng , Xulei Yang

Modeling and understanding the environment is an essential task for autonomous driving. In addition to the detection of objects, in complex traffic scenarios the motion of other road participants is of special interest. Therefore, we…

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

3D occupancy becomes a promising perception representation for autonomous driving to model the surrounding environment at a fine-grained scale. However, it remains challenging to efficiently aggregate 3D occupancy over time across multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Ziyang Leng , Jiawei Yang , Wenlong Yi , Bolei Zhou

We propose Occupancy Flow Fields, a new representation for motion forecasting of multiple agents, an important task in autonomous driving. Our representation is a spatio-temporal grid with each grid cell containing both the probability of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Reza Mahjourian , Jinkyu Kim , Yuning Chai , Mingxing Tan , Ben Sapp , Dragomir Anguelov

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

In this paper, we address the important problem in self-driving of forecasting multi-pedestrian motion and their shared scene occupancy map, critical for safe navigation. Our contributions are two-fold. First, we advocate for predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Katie Luo , Sergio Casas , Renjie Liao , Xinchen Yan , Yuwen Xiong , Wenyuan Zeng , Raquel Urtasun

We tackle the long-term prediction of scene evolution in a complex downtown scenario for automated driving based on Lidar grid fusion and recurrent neural networks (RNNs). A bird's eye view of the scene, including occupancy and velocity, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Marcel Schreiber , Stefan Hoermann , Klaus Dietmayer

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

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

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

Understanding and anticipating human activity is an important capability for intelligent systems in mobile robotics, autonomous driving, and video surveillance. While learning from demonstrations with on-site collected trajectory data is a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Andrey Rudenko , Luigi Palmieri , Johannes Doellinger , Achim J. Lilienthal , Kai O. Arras

This paper introduces a novel machine learning architecture for an efficient estimation of the probabilistic space-time representation of complex traffic scenarios. A detailed representation of the future traffic scenario is of significant…

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

Predicting the motion of surrounding vehicles is key to safe autonomous driving, especially in unstructured environments without prior information. This paper proposes a novel online method to accurately predict the occupancy sets of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Alvaro Carrizosa-Rendon , Jian Zhou , Erik Frisk , Vicenc Puig , Fatiha Nejjari

Prognostication of vehicle trajectories in unknown environments is intrinsically a challenging and difficult problem to solve. The behavior of such vehicles is highly influenced by surrounding traffic, road conditions, and rogue…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Nishanth Rao , Suresh Sundaram

Uncertainty plays a key role in future prediction. The future is uncertain. That means there might be many possible futures. A future prediction method should cover the whole possibilities to be robust. In autonomous driving, covering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Adil Kaan Akan

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

In the rapidly evolving field of autonomous driving, reliable prediction is pivotal for vehicular safety. However, trajectory predictions often deviate from actual paths, particularly in complex and challenging environments, leading to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Wenbo Shao , Jiahui Xu , Wenhao Yu , Jun Li , Hong Wang

Spatio-temporal forecasting is an open research field whose interest is growing exponentially. In this work we focus on creating a complex deep neural framework for spatio-temporal traffic forecasting with comparatively very good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Rodrigo de Medrano , José L. Aznarte

We have seen tremendous recent progress in our ability to build "spatio-semantic" representations that enable robots to perform complex reasoning across geometry and semantics. However, the vast majority of these methods lack any ability to…

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