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The comprehensive representation and understanding of the driving environment is crucial to improve the safety and reliability of autonomous vehicles. In this paper, we present a new approach to establish an environment model containing a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Nico Engel , Stefan Hoermann , Philipp Henzler , Klaus Dietmayer

Scene flow estimation predicts the 3D motion at each point in successive LiDAR scans. This detailed, point-level, information can help autonomous vehicles to accurately predict and understand dynamic changes in their surroundings. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Qingwen Zhang , Yi Yang , Peizheng Li , Olov Andersson , Patric Jensfelt

In this paper, we explore a novel point representation for 3D occupancy prediction from multi-view images, which is named Occupancy as Set of Points. Existing camera-based methods tend to exploit dense volume-based representation to predict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yiang Shi , Tianheng Cheng , Qian Zhang , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Recent progress in self- and weakly supervised occupancy estimation has largely relied on 2D projection or rendering-based supervision, which suffers from geometric inconsistencies and severe depth bleeding. We thus introduce ShelfOcc, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Simon Boeder , Fabian Gigengack , Simon Roesler , Holger Caesar , Benjamin Risse

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

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 how the 3D scene evolves is vital for making decisions in autonomous driving. Most existing methods achieve this by predicting the movements of object boxes, which cannot capture more fine-grained scene information. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Wenzhao Zheng , Weiliang Chen , Yuanhui Huang , Borui Zhang , Yueqi Duan , Jiwen Lu

A comprehensive understanding of 3D scenes is essential for autonomous vehicles (AVs), and among various perception tasks, occupancy estimation plays a central role by providing a general representation of drivable and occupied space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Ruihan Liu , Xiaoyi Wu , Xijun Chen , Liang Hu , Yunjiang Lou

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong vision-language reasoning abilities but still lack robust 3D spatial understanding, which is critical for autonomous driving. This limitation stems from two key challenges: (1) the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ruixun Liu , Lingyu Kong , Derun Li , Hang Zhao

For visual estimation of optical flow, a crucial function for many vision tasks, unsupervised learning, using the supervision of view synthesis has emerged as a promising alternative to supervised methods, since ground-truth flow is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Zitang Sun , Shin'ya Nishida , Zhengbo Luo

Implicit Neural Representations have gained prominence as a powerful framework for capturing complex data modalities, encompassing a wide range from 3D shapes to images and audio. Within the realm of 3D shape representation, Neural Signed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Amine Ouasfi , Adnane Boukhayma

3D occupancy prediction has become a key perception task in autonomous driving, as it enables comprehensive scene understanding. Recent methods enhance this understanding by incorporating spatiotemporal information through multi-frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Seokha Moon , Janghyun Baek , Giseop Kim , Jinkyu Kim , Sunwook Choi

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

3D semantic occupancy prediction, which seeks to provide accurate and comprehensive representations of environment scenes, is important to autonomous driving systems. For autonomous cars equipped with multi-camera and LiDAR, it is critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Zhuangwei Zhuang , Ziyin Wang , Sitao Chen , Lizhao Liu , Hui Luo , Mingkui Tan

Motion planning for safe autonomous driving requires learning how the environment around an ego-vehicle evolves with time. Ego-centric perception of driveable regions in a scene not only changes with the motion of actors in the environment,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Tarasha Khurana , Peiyun Hu , Achal Dave , Jason Ziglar , David Held , Deva Ramanan

Occupancy Network has recently attracted much attention in autonomous driving. Instead of monocular 3D detection and recent bird's eye view(BEV) models predicting 3D bounding box of obstacles, Occupancy Network predicts the category of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Mingjie Lu , Yuanxian Huang , Ji Liu , Xingliang Huang , Dong Li , Jinzhang Peng , Lu Tian , Emad Barsoum

We introduce a self-supervised pretraining method, called OccFeat, for camera-only Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) segmentation networks. With OccFeat, we pretrain a BEV network via occupancy prediction and feature distillation tasks. Occupancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Sophia Sirko-Galouchenko , Alexandre Boulch , Spyros Gidaris , Andrei Bursuc , Antonin Vobecky , Patrick Pérez , Renaud Marlet

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

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

Transmittance estimators such as Occupancy Grid (OG) can accelerate the training and rendering of Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) by predicting important samples that contributes much to the generated image. However, OG manages occupied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Yoshio Kato , Shuhei Tarashima