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Autonomous driving requires an understanding of the static environment from sensor data. Learned Bird's-Eye View (BEV) encoders are commonly used to fuse multiple inputs, and a vector decoder predicts a vectorized map representation from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Thomas Monninger , Zihan Zhang , Zhipeng Mo , Md Zafar Anwar , Steffen Staab , Sihao Ding

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

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

One essential step to realize modern driver assistance technology is the accurate knowledge about the location of static objects in the environment. In this work, we use artificial neural networks to predict the occupation state of a whole…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Daniel Bauer , Lars Kuhnert , Lutz Eckstein

Autonomous exploration in structured and complex indoor environments remains a challenging task, as existing methods often struggle to appropriately model unobserved space and plan globally efficient paths. To address these limitations, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Zijun Che , Yinghong Zhang , Shengyi Liang , Boyu Zhou , Jun Ma , Jinni Zhou

In recent years, autonomous driving has garnered escalating attention for its potential to relieve drivers' burdens and improve driving safety. Vision-based 3D occupancy prediction, which predicts the spatial occupancy status and semantics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yanan Zhang , Jinqing Zhang , Zengran Wang , Junhao Xu , Di Huang

In autonomous vehicles, understanding the surrounding 3D environment of the ego vehicle in real-time is essential. A compact way to represent scenes while encoding geometric distances and semantic object information is via 3D semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Samuel Sze , Lars Kunze

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

By framing reinforcement learning as a sequence modeling problem, recent work has enabled the use of generative models, such as diffusion models, for planning. While these models are effective in predicting long-horizon state trajectories…

Generating unbounded 3D scenes is crucial for large-scale scene understanding and simulation. Urban scenes, unlike natural landscapes, consist of various complex man-made objects and structures such as roads, traffic signs, vehicles, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Junge Zhang , Qihang Zhang , Li Zhang , Ramana Rao Kompella , Gaowen Liu , Bolei Zhou

Multi-sensor fusion significantly enhances the accuracy and robustness of 3D semantic occupancy prediction, which is crucial for autonomous driving and robotics. However, most existing approaches depend on high-resolution images and complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zhen Yang , Yanpeng Dong , Jiayu Wang , Heng Wang , Lichao Ma , Zijian Cui , Qi Liu , Haoran Pei , Kexin Zhang , Chao Zhang

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

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

In this work, we tackle the problem of modeling the vehicle environment as dynamic occupancy grid map in complex urban scenarios using recurrent neural networks. Dynamic occupancy grid maps represent the scene in a bird's eye view, where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Marcel Schreiber , Vasileios Belagiannis , Claudius Glaeser , Klaus Dietmayer

3D occupancy prediction based on multi-sensor fusion,crucial for a reliable autonomous driving system, enables fine-grained understanding of 3D scenes. Previous fusion-based 3D occupancy predictions relied on depth estimation for processing…

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

Creating accurate spatial representations that take into account uncertainty is critical for autonomous robots to safely navigate in unstructured environments. Although recent LIDAR based mapping techniques can produce robust occupancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Anthony Tompkins , Ransalu Senanayake , Fabio Ramos

Diffusion models have risen as a promising approach to data-driven planning, and have demonstrated impressive robotic control, reinforcement learning, and video planning performance. Given an effective planner, an important question to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Siyuan Zhou , Yilun Du , Shun Zhang , Mengdi Xu , Yikang Shen , Wei Xiao , Dit-Yan Yeung , Chuang Gan

3D occupancy prediction has recently emerged as a new paradigm for holistic 3D scene understanding and provides valuable information for downstream planning in autonomous driving. Most existing methods, however, are computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Yunxiao Shi , Hong Cai , Amin Ansari , Fatih Porikli

3D scene understanding plays a vital role in vision-based autonomous driving. While most existing methods focus on 3D object detection, they have difficulty describing real-world objects of arbitrary shapes and infinite classes. Towards a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yi Wei , Linqing Zhao , Wenzhao Zheng , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

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