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Camera-based 3D semantic occupancy prediction offers an efficient and cost-effective solution for perceiving surrounding scenes in autonomous driving. However, existing works rely on explicit occupancy state inference, leading to numerous…

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In perception for automated vehicles, safety is critical not only for the driver but also for other agents in the scene, particularly vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and cyclists. Previous representation methods, such as Bird's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Seamie Hayes , Ganesh Sistu , Tim Brophy , Ciaran Eising

Predicting variations in complex traffic environments is crucial for the safety of autonomous driving. Recent advancements in occupancy forecasting have enabled forecasting future 3D occupied status in driving environments by observing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Junliang Chen , Huaiyuan Xu , Yi Wang , Lap-Pui Chau

Drivable Free-space prediction is a fundamental and crucial problem in autonomous driving. Recent works have addressed the problem by representing the entire non-obstacle road regions as the free-space. In contrast our aim is to estimate…

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3D occupancy prediction is crucial for robust autonomous driving systems as it enables comprehensive perception of environmental structures and semantics. Most existing methods employ dense voxel-based scene representations, ignoring the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Sicheng Zuo , Wenzhao Zheng , Xiaoyong Han , Longchao Yang , Yong Pan , Jiwen Lu

Mobile robots rely on maps to navigate through an environment. In the absence of any map, the robots must build the map online from partial observations as they move in the environment. Traditional methods build a map using only direct…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Vishnu Dutt Sharma

Understanding how the surrounding environment changes is crucial for performing downstream tasks safely and reliably in autonomous driving applications. Recent occupancy estimation techniques using only camera images as input can provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Junyi Ma , Xieyuanli Chen , Jiawei Huang , Jingyi Xu , Zhen Luo , Jintao Xu , Weihao Gu , Rui Ai , Hesheng Wang

Semantic occupancy perception is essential for autonomous driving, as automated vehicles require a fine-grained perception of the 3D urban structures. However, existing relevant benchmarks lack diversity in urban scenes, and they only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Wenbo Xu , Yunpeng Zhang , Yi Wei , Xu Chi , Yun Ye , Dalong Du , Jiwen Lu , Xingang Wang

Accurate and realistic 3D scene reconstruction enables the lifelike creation of autonomous driving simulation environments. With advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), previous studies have applied it to reconstruct complex dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yedong Shen , Xinran Zhang , Yifan Duan , Shiqi Zhang , Heng Li , Yilong Wu , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

In this paper, we address the problem of autonomous exploration of unknown environments with an aerial robot equipped with a sensory set that produces large point clouds, such as LiDARs. The main goal is to gradually explore an area while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Ana Batinovic , Antun Ivanovic , Tamara Petrovic , Stjepan Bogdan

Recent advancements in world models have revolutionized dynamic environment simulation, allowing systems to foresee future states and assess potential actions. In autonomous driving, these capabilities help vehicles anticipate the behavior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Anthony Chen , Wenzhao Zheng , Yida Wang , Xueyang Zhang , Kun Zhan , Peng Jia , Kurt Keutzer , Shanghang Zhang

On a minute-to-minute basis people undergo numerous fluid interactions with objects that barely register on a conscious level. Recent neuroscientific research demonstrates that humans have a fixed size prior for salient objects. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Gedas Bertasius , Hyun Soo Park , Jianbo Shi

Multi-camera 3D perception has emerged as a prominent research field in autonomous driving, offering a viable and cost-effective alternative to LiDAR-based solutions. The existing multi-camera algorithms primarily rely on monocular 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Chen Min , Liang Xiao , Dawei Zhao , Yiming Nie , Bin Dai

Dynamic scenes that contain both object motion and egomotion are a challenge for monocular visual odometry (VO). Another issue with monocular VO is the scale ambiguity, i.e. these methods cannot estimate scene depth and camera motion in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Hirak J Kashyap , Charless Fowlkes , Jeffrey L Krichmar

Modern autonomous driving algorithms often rely on learning the mapping from visual inputs to steering actions from human driving data in a variety of scenarios and visual scenes. The required data collection is not only labor intensive,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Sascha Hornauer , Karl Zipser , Stella X. Yu

Today's autonomous vehicles rely extensively on high-definition 3D maps to navigate the environment. While this approach works well when these maps are completely up-to-date, safe autonomous vehicles must be able to corroborate the map's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Ari Seff , Jianxiong Xiao

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

Recently, implicit neural representations have gained popularity for learning-based 3D reconstruction. While demonstrating promising results, most implicit approaches are limited to comparably simple geometry of single objects and do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Songyou Peng , Michael Niemeyer , Lars Mescheder , Marc Pollefeys , Andreas Geiger

Accurately estimating and forecasting human body pose is important for enhancing the user's sense of immersion in Augmented Reality. Addressing this need, our paper introduces EgoCast, a bimodal method for 3D human pose forecasting using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Maria Escobar , Juanita Puentes , Cristhian Forigua , Jordi Pont-Tuset , Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis , Pablo Arbelaez

Driving scene generation is a critical domain for autonomous driving, enabling downstream applications, including perception and planning evaluation. Occupancy-centric methods have recently achieved state-of-the-art results by offering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Bohan Li , Xin Jin , Hu Zhu , Hongsi Liu , Ruikai Li , Jiazhe Guo , Kaiwen Cai , Chao Ma , Yueming Jin , Hao Zhao , Xiaokang Yang , Wenjun Zeng