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Vision Transformers (ViTs) enable strong multi-view 3D detection but are limited by high inference latency from dense token and query processing across multiple views and large 3D regions. Existing sparsity methods, designed mainly for 2D…

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In this paper, we propose a new Transformer block for video future frames prediction based on an efficient local spatial-temporal separation attention mechanism. Based on this new Transformer block, a fully autoregressive video future…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Xi Ye , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau

In this paper, we introduce ProtoOcc, a novel 3D occupancy prediction model designed to predict the occupancy states and semantic classes of 3D voxels through a deep semantic understanding of scenes. ProtoOcc consists of two main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jungho Kim , Changwon Kang , Dongyoung Lee , Sehwan Choi , Jun Won Choi

Vision-centric occupancy networks, which represent the surrounding environment with uniform voxels with semantics, have become a new trend for safe driving of camera-only autonomous driving perception systems, as they are able to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yining Shi , Jiusi Li , Kun Jiang , Ke Wang , Yunlong Wang , Mengmeng Yang , Diange Yang

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

Novel view synthesis is a long-standing problem. In this work, we consider a variant of the problem where we are given only a few context views sparsely covering a scene or an object. The goal is to predict novel viewpoints in the scene,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Jonáš Kulhánek , Erik Derner , Torsten Sattler , Robert Babuška

Vision-based autonomous driving has gained much attention due to its low costs and excellent performance. Compared with dense BEV (Bird's Eye View) or sparse query models, Gaussian-centric method is a comprehensive yet sparse representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yiyao Zhu , Ying Xue , Haiming Zhang , Guangfeng Jiang , Wending Zhou , Xu Yan , Jiantao Gao , Yingjie Cai , Bingbing Liu , Zhen Li , Shaojie Shen

Understanding and forecasting future scene states is critical for autonomous agents to plan and act effectively in complex environments. Object-centric models, with structured latent spaces, have shown promise in modeling object dynamics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Angel Villar-Corrales , Gjergj Plepi , Sven Behnke

The choice of representation plays a key role in self-driving. Bird's eye view (BEV) representations have shown remarkable performance in recent years. In this paper, we propose to learn object-centric representations in BEV to distill a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Shadi Hamdan , Fatma Güney

Compared with voxel-based grid prediction, in the field of 3D semantic occupation prediction for autonomous driving, GaussianFormer proposed using 3D Gaussian to describe scenes with sparse 3D semantic Gaussian based on objects is another…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ziyue Zhao , Qining Qi , Jianfa Ma

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

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

Occupancy World Models (OWMs) aim to predict future scenes via 3D voxelized representations of the environment to support intelligent motion planning. Existing approaches typically generate full future occupancy states from VAE-style latent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Haoran Xu , Peixi Peng , Guang Tan , Yiqian Chang , Yisen Zhao , Yonghong Tian

Navigating complex and dynamic environments requires autonomous vehicles (AVs) to reason about both visible and occluded regions. This involves predicting the future motion of observed agents, inferring occluded ones, and modeling their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Bernard Lange , Jiachen Li , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Modern visual world modeling systems increasingly rely on high-capacity architectures and large-scale data to produce plausible motion, yet they often fail to preserve underlying 3D geometry or physically consistent camera dynamics. A key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Andrew Bond , Ilkin Umut Melanlioglu , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem

Occupancy prediction has increasingly garnered attention in recent years for its fine-grained understanding of 3D scenes. Traditional approaches typically rely on dense, regular grid representations, which often leads to excessive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yuhang Lu , Xinge Zhu , Tai Wang , Yuexin Ma

Lane segment topology reasoning provides comprehensive bird's-eye view (BEV) road scene understanding, which can serve as a key perception module in planning-oriented end-to-end autonomous driving systems. Existing lane topology reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yiming Yang , Hongbin Lin , Yueru Luo , Suzhong Fu , Chao Zheng , Xinrui Yan , Shuqi Mei , Kun Tang , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

In the realm of autonomous driving, accurately detecting surrounding obstacles is crucial for effective decision-making. Traditional methods primarily rely on 3D bounding boxes to represent these obstacles, which often fail to capture the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chunyong Hu , Qi Luo , Jianyun Xu , Song Wang , Qiang Li , Sheng Yang

Learning world models from their sensory inputs enables agents to plan for actions by imagining their future outcomes. World models have previously been shown to improve sample-efficiency in simulated environments with few objects, but have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Arnav Kumar Jain , Shivakanth Sujit , Shruti Joshi , Vincent Michalski , Danijar Hafner , Samira Ebrahimi-Kahou

3D Panoptic Occupancy Prediction aims to reconstruct a dense volumetric scene map by predicting the semantic class and instance identity of every occupied region in 3D space. Achieving such fine-grained 3D understanding requires precise…

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