The paper investigates how inaccuracies in pretrained occupancy networks affect active mapping robots that select camera viewpoints to reconstruct unknown 3D scenes. By fixing the planner and varying the occupancy representation—ranging from no completion to ground‑truth occupancy—the authors find that correcting false positives or false negatives alone does not reliably improve coverage, highlighting a disconnect between occupancy accuracy and planning performance. They propose a dynamic filtering strategy that retains predictions in unexplored space while suppressing unsupported occupancy based on online observations, which preliminarily shows it can steer viewpoint selection toward reachable surfaces that would otherwise remain unseen.
By Jiahui Zhang, Gongbo Liang, Yu Zhang
arXiv:2506. 22174v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The transport industry has recently shown significant interest in unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), specifically for port and inland waterway transport.
By Bavo Lesy, Siemen Herremans, Robin Kerstens, Jan Steckel, Walter Daems, Siegfried Mercelis, Ali Anwar
arXiv:2603. 28385v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Maritime surveillance missions, such as search and rescue and environmental monitoring, rely on the efficient allocation of sensing assets over vast and geometrically complex areas.
By Carlos S. Sep\'ulveda, Gonzalo A. Ruz
arXiv:2608.16499v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Active 3D Gaussian reconstruction fundamentally relies on selecting informative next-best views under limited sensing budgets. Existing activ...
By Hongbo Gao, Wei Zhang, Zeyu Ni, Dihao Zhu, Ruifeng Li, Yunke Wang, Chang Xu
arXiv:2606. 15240v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate vessel trajectory forecasting is essential for maritime situational awareness, navigation safety, traffic management, and autonomous navigation.
By Kun Ma, Qilong Han, Chengjing Song, Jingzheng Yao, Hao Wang, Changmao Wu
Matisse is a training‑free framework that combines active 3D reconstruction with keyframe selection by using evidence from a pretrained generative 3D model. It estimates evidential uncertainty via cross‑attention on 3D latent tokens and derives an evidential information gain to guide view acquisition and keyframe selection, reducing redundant observations and supporting multi‑object scenes with occlusion‑aware aggregation. On GSO30, YCB‑V, and Replica, Matisse improves Chamfer distance by 12.7%, 3.8%, and 9.2% respectively, and speeds up end‑to‑end reconstruction by 1.5× compared to the best baseline.
By Xihang Yu, Kaichen Zhou, Lorenzo Shaikewitz, Cl\'ement Jambon, Xiao Zhan, Rajat Talak, Luca Carlone
arXiv:2606. 15356v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate prediction of hydrodynamic performance is central to ship design, yet high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics remains prohibitively expensive for large-scale parametric exploration.
By Kirsten Odendaal, George Drakoulas
arXiv:2607. 21400v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) enables embodied agents to follow natural-language instructions.
By Jiabin Lou, Haopeng Wang, Yuanshuai Wang, Xinyu Liu, Xuxin Lv, Yuxin Guo, Lei Huang, Rongye Shi, Wenjun Wu
OceanXL is a new framework that applies 3D Gaussian Splatting to large-scale underwater scenes by partitioning them into spatially coherent blocks and using adaptive pruning to remove redundant primitives. This divide‑and‑conquer approach improves training efficiency and rendering performance while maintaining global geometric consistency. The authors also release a large underwater dataset and demonstrate that OceanXL achieves favorable scalability, compactness, and efficiency compared to existing baselines, with competitive quality on smaller datasets and smaller model sizes than other underwater methods.
By Haoran Wang, Shaoyu Cai, Adrian Azzarelli, Zhuodong Jiang, Guoxi Huang, Eng Tat Khoo, Brett Seymour, Fan Zhang, David Bull, Nantheera Anantrasirichai
arXiv:2609.25271v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Sidescan sonar is a common sensor for both manned and autonomous marine exploration and mapping, yet very few methods build upon or exploit the geome...
By Kalin Norman, Joshua G. Mangelson
arXiv:2606. 08513v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) traditionally rely on complex, heavily engineered pipelines for perception, path planning, and motion control.
By Elisei Shafer, Oren Gal
AquaBEV is a monocular underwater occupancy model that predicts local bird’s‑eye‑view (BEV) occupancy from a single RGB image. It uses paired 3D imaging sonar data as geometric supervision during training, mapping visual features into a calibration‑free polar representation and decoding along the range dimension before reconstructing Cartesian BEV coordinates. In a controlled underwater occupancy benchmark, AquaBEV outperforms the strongest transferred baseline with 31.4 % Visible IoU and 38.6 % Observed IoU, achieving 4.0 % and 4.3 % relative improvements respectively.
By Trung Tien Dong, Shengji Jin, Chen Chen, Yi Sheng, Xiaomin Lin