arXiv AI

TOPO-Bench: An Open-Source Topological Mapping Evaluation Framework with Quantifiable Perceptual Aliasing

arXiv:2510. 04100v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Topological mapping offers a compact and robust representation for navigation, but progress in the field is hindered by the lack of standardized evaluation metrics, datasets, and protocols.

arXiv AI
Jul 15

PixelLoop: Shortcut Topological Navigation with Pixel-Level Loops

arXiv:2607. 12811v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although topological mapping and navigation have been studied extensively, the specific role and downstream effect of loop closures in purely topological representations has received relatively little attention.

By Sarthak Chittawar, Vansh Garg, Aditya Vadali, Krish Pandya, Rohit Jayanti, Sourav Garg, Madhava Krishna
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 1

Honey, I Shrunk the Arc de Triomphe!

Metric scale monocular geometry estimation has seen significant progress through large-scale data aggregation, yet current foundation models suffer from a persistent ''scale-collapse'' phenomenon: distant landmarks and vast landscapes are metrically underestimated. We hypothesize that this performance gap stems from a training data bottleneck, where existing metric-scale datasets are hardware-constrained to homogenous vehicle-captured LiDAR or short-range indoor scans, or consist of synthetic data that lacks the semantic complexity of the physical world.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 3

The Road Ahead in Autonomous Driving: The KITScenes Multimodal Dataset

arXiv:2606. 02956v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing autonomous driving datasets have enabled major progress, but fall short in sensor fidelity, map completeness, or geographic diversity.

By Richard Schwarzkopf, Fabian Immel, Alexander Blumberg, Jonas Merkert, Nils Rack, Kaiwen Wang, Fabian Konstantinidis, Julian Truetsch, Carlos Fernandez, Annika B\"atz, Kevin R\"osch, Marlon Steiner, Willi Poh, Yinzhe Shen, Royden Wagner, Felix Hauser, Dominik Strutz, Jaime Villa, Gleb Stepanov, Holger Caesar, \"Omer \c{S}ahin Ta\c{s}, Frank Bieder, Jan-Hendrik Pauls, Christoph Stiller
arXiv AI
Jun 15

Fusion of Pervasive RF Data with Spatial Images via Vision Transformers for Enhanced Mapping in Smart Cities

arXiv:2508. 03736v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we present a deep learning-based approach that integrates the DINOv2 architecture to improve building mapping by combining (possibly erroneous) maps from open-source platforms with pervasive radio frequency (RF) data collected from multiple wireless user equipments and base stations.

By Rafayel Mkrtchyan, Armen Manukyan, Hrant Khachatrian, Theofanis P. Raptis