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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

We present a method for generating, predicting, and using Spatiotemporal Occupancy Grid Maps (SOGM), which embed future semantic information of real dynamic scenes. We present an auto-labeling process that creates SOGMs from noisy real…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Hugues Thomas , Jian Zhang , Timothy D. Barfoot

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, especially occupancy grid maps, are ubiquitous in many mobile robot applications. To simplify the process of learning the map, grid maps subdivide the world into a grid of cells whose occupancies are independently estimated using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Matti Pekkanen , Francesco Verdoja , Ville Kyrki

Recent advances in LiDAR technology have opened up new possibilities for robotic navigation. Given the widespread use of occupancy grid maps (OGMs) in robotic motion planning, this paper aims to address the challenges of integrating LiDAR…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yunfan Ren , Yixi Cai , Fangcheng Zhu , Siqi Liang , Fu Zhang

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…

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

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

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

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

Drivable free space information is vital for autonomous vehicles that have to plan evasive maneuvers in real-time. In this paper, we present a new efficient method for environmental free space detection with laser scanner based on 2D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Hesham M. Eraqi , Jens Honer , Sebastian Zuther

Real-time robotic systems require advanced perception, computation, and action capability. However, the main bottleneck in current autonomous systems is the trade-off between computational capability, energy efficiency and model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Shay Snyder , Andrew Capodieci , David Gorsich , Maryam Parsa

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

Reliably predicting future occupancy of highly dynamic urban environments is an important precursor for safe autonomous navigation. Common challenges in the prediction include forecasting the relative position of other vehicles, modelling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Khushdeep Singh Mann , Abhishek Tomy , Anshul Paigwar , Alessandro Renzaglia , Christian Laugier

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

Autonomous vehicles commonly rely on highly detailed birds-eye-view maps of their environment, which capture both static elements of the scene such as road layout as well as dynamic elements such as other cars and pedestrians. Generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Thomas Roddick , Roberto Cipolla

Accurate prediction of driving scene is a challenging task due to uncertainty in sensor data, the complex behaviors of agents, and the possibility of multiple feasible futures. Existing prediction methods using occupancy grid maps primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Rabbia Asghar , Lukas Rummelhard , Wenqian Liu , Anne Spalanzani , Christian Laugier

A key challenge for autonomous driving is safe trajectory planning in cluttered, urban environments with dynamic obstacles, such as pedestrians, bicyclists, and other vehicles. A reliable prediction of the future environment, including the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Masha Itkina , Katherine Driggs-Campbell , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Autonomous parking has become a critical application in automatic driving research and development. Parking operations often suffer from limited space and complex environments, requiring accurate perception and precise maneuvering.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Zhitao Wang , Zhe Chen , Mingyang Jiang , Tong Qin , Ming Yang

Dynamic Occupancy Grid Mapping is a technique used to generate a local map of the environment containing both static and dynamic information. Typically, these maps are primarily generated using lidar measurements. However, with improvements…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Max Peter Ronecker , Markus Schratter , Lukas Kuschnig , Daniel Watzenig