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3D semantic occupancy prediction is essential for achieving safe, reliable autonomous driving and robotic navigation. Compared to camera-only perception systems, multi-modal pipelines, especially LiDAR-camera fusion methods, can produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Lingjun Zhao , Sizhe Wei , James Hays , Lu Gan

This paper introduces a novel architecture for trajectory-conditioned forecasting of future 3D scene occupancy. In contrast to methods that rely on variational autoencoders (VAEs) to generate discrete occupancy tokens, which inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Jiayuan Du , Yiming Zhao , Zhenglong Guo , Yong Pan , Wenbo Hou , Zhihui Hao , Kun Zhan , Qijun Chen

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

3D occupancy prediction plays a pivotal role in the realm of autonomous driving, as it provides a comprehensive understanding of the driving environment. Most existing methods construct dense scene representations for occupancy prediction,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zichen Yu , Quanli Liu , Wei Wang , Liyong Zhang , Xiaoguang Zhao

Predicting how the world can evolve in the future is crucial for motion planning in autonomous systems. Classical methods are limited because they rely on costly human annotations in the form of semantic class labels, bounding boxes, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Tarasha Khurana , Peiyun Hu , David Held , Deva Ramanan

Tracking the pose of instruments is a central problem in image-guided surgery. For microscopic scenarios, optical coherence tomography (OCT) is increasingly used as an imaging modality. OCT is suitable for accurate pose estimation due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Nils Gessert , Matthias Schlüter , Alexander Schlaefer

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

Implicit function based surface reconstruction has been studied for a long time to recover 3D shapes from point clouds sampled from surfaces. Recently, Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) and Occupany Functions are adopted in learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Meng Jia , Matthew Kyan

The vision-based perception for autonomous driving has undergone a transformation from the bird-eye-view (BEV) representations to the 3D semantic occupancy. Compared with the BEV planes, the 3D semantic occupancy further provides structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Yunpeng Zhang , Zheng Zhu , Dalong Du

Semantic 3D mapping can be used for many applications such as robot navigation and virtual interaction. In recent years, there has been great progress in semantic segmentation and geometric 3D mapping. However, it is still challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Shichao Yang , Yulan Huang , Sebastian Scherer

Understanding world dynamics is crucial for planning in autonomous driving. Recent methods attempt to achieve this by learning a 3D occupancy world model that forecasts future surrounding scenes based on current observation. However, 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Xiang Li , Pengfei Li , Yupeng Zheng , Wei Sun , Yan Wang , Yilun Chen

3D hand pose estimation from images has seen considerable interest from the literature, with new methods improving overall 3D accuracy. One current challenge is to address hand-to-hand interaction where self-occlusions and finger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Maksym Ivashechkin , Oscar Mendez , Richard Bowden

In this paper we present an approach to estimate Free Space from a Stereo image pair using stochastic occupancy grids. We do this in the domain of autonomous driving on the famous benchmark dataset KITTI. Later based on the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Raghavender Sahdev

Accurate perception of the surrounding environment is essential for safe autonomous driving. 3D occupancy prediction, which estimates detailed 3D structures of roads, buildings, and other objects, is particularly important for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Chihiro Noguchi , Takaki Yamamoto

As a novel 3D scene representation, semantic occupancy has gained much attention in autonomous driving. However, existing occupancy prediction methods mainly focus on designing better occupancy representations, such as tri-perspective view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Zhiwei Lin , Hongbo Jin , Yongtao Wang , Yufei Wei , Nan Dong

Monocular Semantic Occupancy Prediction aims to infer the complete 3D geometry and semantic information of scenes from only 2D images. It has garnered significant attention, particularly due to its potential to enhance the 3D perception of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Yupeng Zheng , Xiang Li , Pengfei Li , Yuhang Zheng , Bu Jin , Chengliang Zhong , Xiaoxiao Long , Hao Zhao , Qichao Zhang

3D semantic occupancy prediction is a pivotal task in autonomous driving, providing a dense and fine-grained understanding of the surrounding environment, yet single-modality methods face trade-offs between camera semantics and LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 A. Enes Doruk , Hasan F. Ates

Point clouds are crucial for capturing three-dimensional data but often suffer from incompleteness due to limitations such as resolution and occlusion. Traditional methods typically rely on point-based approaches within discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Guoqing Zhang , Jian Liu

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

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