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Efficient and scalable 3D occupancy mapping is essential for autonomous robot applications in unknown environments. However, traditional occupancy grid representations suffer from two fundamental limitations. First, explicitly storing all…
Embodied 3D Semantic Scene Completion (SSC) infers dense geometry and semantics from continuous egocentric observations. Most existing Gaussian-based methods rely on random initialization of many primitives within predefined spatial bounds,…
The prediction of 3D semantic occupancy enables autonomous vehicles (AVs) to perceive the fine-grained geometric and semantic scene structure for safe navigation and decision-making. Existing methods mainly rely on either voxel-based…
Recent advancements in 3D reconstruction and neural rendering have enhanced the creation of high-quality digital assets, yet existing methods struggle to generalize across varying object shapes, textures, and occlusions. While Next Best…
Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have been adapted for indoor 3D Object Detection (3DOD), offering a promising approach to indoor 3DOD via view-synthesis representation. But its implicit nature limits representational capacity. Recently, 3D…
Open-vocabulary panoptic reconstruction is essential for advanced robotics perception and simulation. However, existing methods based on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) often struggle to simultaneously achieve geometric accuracy, coherent…
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…
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…
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…
Robust in-bed human pose estimation under blanket occlusion remains challenging due to the scarcity of reliable labeled training data for heavily covered poses. Existing approaches rely on multi-modal sensing or image-to-image translation…
High-fidelity simulations, such as computational fluid dynamics and finite element analysis, are essential for modeling complex engineering systems but are often prohibitively expensive for tasks including parametric studies, optimization,…
Online 3D scene perception in real time is essential for robotics, AR/VR, and autonomous systems, particularly in edge computing scenarios where computational resources are limited and privacy is crucial. Recent state-of-the-art methods…
Three-dimensional Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as an efficient representation for novel-view synthesis, achieving impressive visual quality. However, in scenes dominated by large and low-texture regions, common in indoor…
In this paper, we study extensions to the Gaussian Processes (GPs) continuous occupancy mapping problem. There are two classes of occupancy mapping problems that we particularly investigate. The first problem is related to mapping under…
In this work we propose a holistic framework for autonomous aerial inspection tasks, using semantically-aware, yet, computationally efficient planning and mapping algorithms. The system leverages state-of-the-art receding horizon…
For robots to robustly understand and interact with the physical world, it is highly beneficial to have a comprehensive representation - modelling geometry, physics, and visual observations - that informs perception, planning, and control…
Constructing an occupancy representation of the environment is a fundamental problem for robot autonomy. Many accurate and efficient methods exist that address this problem but most assume that the occupancy states of different elements in…
Understanding dynamic 3D environments is essential for safe autonomous driving, particularly when reasoning about human-centric, nonrigid agents. However, existing weakly supervised occupancy prediction frameworks predominantly assume…
Open-vocabulary scene understanding with online panoptic mapping is essential for embodied applications to perceive and interact with environments. However, existing methods are predominantly offline or lack instance-level understanding,…
Semantic segmentation in autonomous driving has been undergoing an evolution from sparse point segmentation to dense voxel segmentation, where the objective is to predict the semantic occupancy of each voxel in the concerned 3D space. The…