O3N is a novel framework that performs open‑vocabulary occupancy prediction from a single omnidirectional RGB image. It introduces a polar‑spiral voxel embedding (PsM) for continuous 360° spatial representation, an Occupancy Cost Aggregation (OCA) module that unifies geometric and semantic supervision, and a Natural Modality Alignment (NMA) pathway that aligns visual, voxel, and text features. Experiments show state‑of‑the‑art results on QuadOcc and Human360Occ benchmarks, with strong cross‑scene generalization and semantic scalability.
By Mengfei Duan, Hao Shi, Fei Teng, Guoqiang Zhao, Yuheng Zhang, Zhiyong Li, Kailun Yang
VOIM (Voxel‑Grounded Online Instance Manager) is a training‑free system that builds open‑vocabulary 3D instance maps from RGB‑D or monocular RGB input by deferring label and instance decisions until sufficient soft evidence accumulates per voxel across views. Across four perception configurations on ScanNet++, VOIM outperforms the strongest online RGB‑D system, OVO‑SLAM, by 4.8–11.7 mIoU, and achieves 44.07 mIoU under a like‑for‑like protocol, winning all ten scenes. The method also runs unchanged on monocular RGB, matching baseline performance on Replica, and produces exportable occupancy grids that support free‑form instance queries.
By Sangmin Song, Sarath Kodagoda, Marc G. Carmichael, Karthick Thiyagarajan, Amal Gunatilake, Kelly Prentice, Jodi Martin
OccAnyScene introduces a unified approach for 3D occupancy prediction across both indoor and outdoor scenes, addressing the challenge of handling diverse camera setups, spatial ranges, voxel specifications, and semantic taxonomies. The method builds on a pretrained depth model, using pixel-aligned frustum feature aggregation and frustum-parameterized Gaussian construction to generate scene-adaptive occupancy predictions. It achieves state-of-the-art performance, scoring 59.92% mIoU on Occ-ScanNet and 23.06% mIoU on SurroundOcc-nuScenes.
By Junjie Liu, Wanshui Gan, Zitong Dai, Guiping Cao, Yan Li, Ke Chen, Dongmei Jiang, Jianguo Zhang, Xiangyuan Lan
arXiv:2609.38864v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Embodied tasks demand accurate, flexible, and semantically rich 3D scene representations. 3D semantic occupancy is well suited to this requirement, as...
By Jinglong Wang, Yunjie Wang, Zhiyang Zhang, Jiawei He, Ye Yuan, Bo Qiu, Jing Zhang
Embodied tasks demand accurate, flexible, and semantically rich 3D scene representations. 3D semantic occupancy is well suited to this requirement, as it can model holistic 3D spaces by encoding geome...
arXiv:2605.25059v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Crucial for autonomous exploration, online 3D occupancy prediction and mapping incrementally construct dense spatial representations on the fly. Em...
By Ruoyu Wang, Yong Liu, Jiahan Li, Sheng Tao, Yuhang Lin, Yukai Ma
As Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly deployed in decision-critical pipelines such as robotics, embodied AI, and safety monitoring, the opacity of their spatial judgments limits operator trust and auditability. MLLMs demonstrate strong reasoning but often struggle with fine-grained spatial understanding and object hallucination.
arXiv:2610.02388v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Existing 3D large language models (LLMs) compromise on two fronts: they compress shapes into latent codebook indices or coordinate text, which removes...
By Ran Dan, Si-Tong Wei, Pengfei Xiong, Wei Zhang, Yadong Mu, Peng-Shuai Wang
arXiv:2605. 20448v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models reliably name objects in a scene, but do they represent the 3D layout those objects inhabit?
By Animesh Maheshwari, Divyansh Sahu, Nishit Verma
The paper introduces DIFTA-3D, a method that replaces the task‑specific visual branch in IIFNet3D with a frozen DINOv3 foundation model for RGB‑D 3D instance detection. It employs a depth‑consistent feature pipeline that projects points into calibrated RGB‑D frames, filters features with a metric depth‑residual check, caches accepted DINOv3 features, and aggregates them within proposal‑aligned RoI grids. Extensive experiments on ScanNetV2 show that the DINOv3 control achieves mAP scores of 76.15/60.93 at IoU thresholds 0.25/0.50, while the Conservative VAID recipe improves these to 76.59/62.16, indicating a modest gain from the proposed transfer recipe.
By Linman Wang, ZiFei Zhang, Chunran Zheng, Xiwang Dong, Jiarong Lin
The paper introduces Out-of-Distribution Semantic Occupancy Prediction, a task that focuses on detecting unknown objects in 3D voxel space for autonomous driving. It proposes Realistic Anomaly Augmentation to create two new datasets, VAA-KITTI and VAA-KITTI-360, and presents the OccOoD framework, which uses Cross‑Space Semantic Refinement to improve OoD detection while maintaining semantic occupancy accuracy. Experiments show OccOoD achieves an AuROC of 65.50% and an AuPRCr of 31.83% within a 1.2 m radius, demonstrating strong generalization to real‑world urban scenes.
By Yuheng Zhang, Mengfei Duan, Kunyu Peng, Yuhang Wang, Ruiping Liu, Fei Teng, Kai Luo, Zhiyong Li, Kailun Yang
arXiv:2607. 09825v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic manipulation policies rely on pre-trained vision models that give either a global scene embedding or a dense patch grid.
By Yi Li (TU Darmstadt), Alexandre Chapin (LIRIS), Liming Chen (LIRIS), Jan Peters (TU Darmstadt), Alap Kshirsagar (IIT Delhi, ADU)