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This paper focuses on online occupancy mapping and real-time collision checking onboard an autonomous robot navigating in a large unknown environment. Commonly used voxel and octree map representations can be easily maintained in a small…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Thai Duong , Michael Yip , Nikolay Atanasov

A comprehensive understanding of 3D scenes is crucial in autonomous vehicles (AVs), and recent models for 3D semantic occupancy prediction have successfully addressed the challenge of describing real-world objects with varied shapes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Zhenxing Ming , Julie Stephany Berrio , Mao Shan , Stewart Worrall

Semantic occupancy prediction aims to infer dense geometry and semantics of surroundings for an autonomous agent to operate safely in the 3D environment. Existing occupancy prediction methods are almost entirely trained on human-annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zhiyu Tan , Zichao Dong , Cheng Zhang , Weikun Zhang , Hang Ji , Hao Li

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

Open-vocabulary 3D occupancy is vital for embodied agents, which need to understand complex indoor environments where semantic categories are abundant and evolve beyond fixed taxonomies. While recent work has explored open-vocabulary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Changqing Zhou , Yueru Luo , Han Zhang , Zeyu Jiang , Changhao Chen

Inferring the 3D structure from a single image, particularly in occluded regions, remains a fundamental yet unsolved challenge in vision-centric autonomous driving. Existing unsupervised approaches typically train a neural radiance field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Zizhan Guo , Yi Feng , Mengtan Zhang , Haoran Zhang , Wei Ye , Rui Fan

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

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

The autonomous driving community has shown significant interest in 3D occupancy prediction, driven by its exceptional geometric perception and general object recognition capabilities. To achieve this, current works try to construct a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Qihang Ma , Xin Tan , Yanyun Qu , Lizhuang Ma , Zhizhong Zhang , Yuan Xie

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

The 3D occupancy prediction task has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, playing a crucial role in vision-based autonomous driving systems. While traditional methods are limited to fixed semantic categories, recent approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Chi Yan , Dan Xu

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

The task of occupancy forecasting (OCF) involves utilizing past and present perception data to predict future occupancy states of autonomous vehicle surrounding environments, which is critical for downstream tasks such as obstacle avoidance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Jingyi Xu , Xieyuanli Chen , Junyi Ma , Jiawei Huang , Jintao Xu , Yue Wang , Ling Pei

Achieving highly accurate and real-time 3D occupancy prediction from cameras is a critical requirement for the safe and practical deployment of autonomous vehicles. While this shift to sparse 3D representations solves the encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Suzeyu Chen , Leheng Li , Ying-Cong Chen

3D semantic occupancy prediction is one of the crucial tasks of autonomous driving. It enables precise and safe interpretation and navigation in complex environments. Reliable predictions rely on effective sensor fusion, as different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Tomislav Pavković , Mohammad-Ali Nikouei Mahani , Johannes Niedermayer , Johannes Betz

3D semantic occupancy prediction is crucial for finely representing the surrounding environment, which is essential for ensuring the safety in autonomous driving. Existing fusion-based occupancy methods typically involve performing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Ji Zhang , Yiran Ding , Zixin Liu

Autonomous navigation and exploration in unmapped environments remains a significant challenge in robotics due to the difficulty robots face in making commonsense inference of unobserved geometries. Recent advancements have demonstrated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Alec Reed , Lorin Achey , Brendan Crowe , Bradley Hayes , Christoffer Heckman

Visual-based 3D semantic occupancy perception is a key technology for robotics, including autonomous vehicles, offering an enhanced understanding of the environment by 3D. This approach, however, typically requires more computational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yupeng Jia , Jie He , Runze Chen , Fang Zhao , Haiyong Luo

3D occupancy prediction is important for autonomous driving due to its comprehensive perception of the surroundings. To incorporate sequential inputs, most existing methods fuse representations from previous frames to infer the current 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Sicheng Zuo , Wenzhao Zheng , Yuanhui Huang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

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