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Monocular Semantic Occupancy Grid Mapping with Convolutional Variational Encoder-Decoder Networks

6 Apr 2018arXiv:1804.02176archive 2025-07-28

Chenyang Lu, Marinus Jacobus Gerardus van de Molengraft, Gijs Dubbelman

In this work, we research and evaluate end-to-end learning of monocular semantic-metric occupancy grid mapping from weak binocular ground truth. The network learns to predict four classes, as well as a camera to bird's eye view mapping. At the core, it utilizes a variational encoder-decoder network that encodes the front-view visual information of the driving scene and subsequently decodes it into a 2-D top-view Cartesian coordinate system. The evaluations on Cityscapes show that the end-to-end learning of semantic-metric occupancy grids outperforms the deterministic mapping approach with flat-plane assumption by more than 12% mean IoU. Furthermore, we show that the variational sampling with a relatively small embedding vector brings robustness against vehicle dynamic perturbations, and generalizability for unseen KITTI data. Our network achieves real-time inference rates of approx. 35 Hz for an input image with a resolution of 256x512 pixels and an output map with 64x64 occupancy grid cells using a Titan V GPU.

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