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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 Gaussian Splatting offers expressive scene reconstruction, modeling a broad range of visual, geometric, and semantic information. However, efficient real-time map reconstruction with data streamed from multiple robots and devices remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Javier Yu , Timothy Chen , Mac Schwager

The need to execute Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) at low latency and low power at the edge has spurred the development of new heterogeneous Systems-on-Chips (SoCs) encapsulating a diverse set of hardware accelerators. How to optimally map a…

In this paper, we demonstrate our work on Gaussian Process Occupancy Mapping (GPOM). We concentrate on the inefficiency of the frame computation of the classical GPOM approaches. In robotics, most of the algorithms are required to run in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Yijun Yuan , Haofei Kuang , Sören Schwertfeger

In this paper, we introduce GS-LIVM, a real-time photo-realistic LiDAR-Inertial-Visual mapping framework with Gaussian Splatting tailored for outdoor scenes. Compared to existing methods based on Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yusen Xie , Zhenmin Huang , Jin Wu , Jun Ma

Mapping and localization are crucial problems in robotics and autonomous driving. Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled precise 3D mapping and scene understanding by rendering photo-realistic images. However, existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jaewon Lee , Mangyu Kong , Minseong Park , Euntai Kim

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

Occupancy mapping is a fundamental component of robotic systems to reason about the unknown and known regions of the environment. This article presents an efficient occupancy mapping framework for high-resolution LiDAR sensors, termed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Yixi Cai , Fanze Kong , Yunfan Ren , Fangcheng Zhu , Jiarong Lin , Fu Zhang

Dynamic 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) extends static 3DGS to render dynamic scenes, enabling AR/VR applications with moving objects. However, implementing dynamic 3DGS on edge devices faces challenges: (1) Loading all Gaussian parameters…

3D intelligence leverages rich 3D features and stands as a promising frontier in AI, with 3D rendering fundamental to many downstream applications. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), an emerging high-quality 3D rendering method, requires…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Sixu Li , Ben Keller , Yingyan Celine Lin , Brucek Khailany

Understanding the 3D geometry and semantics of driving scenes is critical for safe autonomous driving. Recent advances in 3D occupancy prediction have improved scene representation but often suffer from visual inconsistencies, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Loïck Chambon , Eloi Zablocki , Alexandre Boulch , Mickaël Chen , Matthieu Cord

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is one of the most important environment-perception and navigation algorithms for computer vision, robotics, and autonomous cars/drones. Hence, high quality and fast mapping becomes a fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Runfa Blark Li , Mahdi Shaghaghi , Keito Suzuki , Xinshuang Liu , Varun Moparthi , Bang Du , Walker Curtis , Martin Renschler , Ki Myung Brian Lee , Nikolay Atanasov , Truong Nguyen

While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) enabled photorealistic mapping, its integration into SLAM has largely followed traditional camera-centric pipelines. As a result, they inherit well-known weaknesses such as high computational load, failure…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jaeseok Park , Chanoh Park , Minsu Kim , Minkyoung Kim , Soohwan Kim

3D occupancy perception holds a pivotal role in recent vision-centric autonomous driving systems by converting surround-view images into integrated geometric and semantic representations within dense 3D grids. Nevertheless, current models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xin Tan , Wenbin Wu , Zhiwei Zhang , Chaojie Fan , Yong Peng , Zhizhong Zhang , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has gained significant attention for its application in dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), enabling real-time rendering and high-fidelity mapping. However, existing 3DGS-based SLAM methods often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Ziheng Xu , Qingfeng Li , Chen Chen , Xuefeng Liu , Jianwei Niu

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a promising direction for SLAM due to its high-fidelity reconstruction and rapid convergence. However, 3DGS-SLAM algorithms remain impractical for mobile platforms due to their high computational…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xiaotong Huang , He Zhu , Tianrui Ma , Yuxiang Xiong , Fangxin Liu , Zhezhi He , Yiming Gan , Zihan Liu , Jingwen Leng , Yu Feng , Minyi Guo

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) enables 3D scene reconstruction from several 2D images but incurs high rendering latency via its point-sampling design. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) improves on NeRF with explicit scene representation and an…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Haomin Li , Bowen Zhu , Fangxin Liu , Zongwu Wang , Xinran Liang , Li Jiang , Haibing Guan

We introduce an approach for the real-time (2Hz) creation of a dense map and alignment of a moving robotic agent within that map by rendering using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). This is done by recasting the scan alignment part of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Julian Ryde , Xuchu , Ding

This paper proposes a high-performance and energy-efficient optical near-sensor accelerator for vision applications, called Lightator. Harnessing the promising efficiency offered by photonic devices, Lightator features innovative…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Mehrdad Morsali , Brendan Reidy , Deniz Najafi , Sepehr Tabrizchi , Mohsen Imani , Mahdi Nikdast , Arman Roohi , Ramtin Zand , Shaahin Angizi

Drivable free space information is vital for autonomous vehicles that have to plan evasive maneuvers in real-time. In this paper, we present a new efficient method for environmental free space detection with laser scanner based on 2D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Hesham M. Eraqi , Jens Honer , Sebastian Zuther