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Autores principales: Matez-Bandera, Jose-Luis, Ojeda, Pepe, Monroy, Javier, Gonzalez-Jimenez, Javier, Ruiz-Sarmiento, Jose-Raul
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Publicado: 2024
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08727
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author Matez-Bandera, Jose-Luis
Ojeda, Pepe
Monroy, Javier
Gonzalez-Jimenez, Javier
Ruiz-Sarmiento, Jose-Raul
author_facet Matez-Bandera, Jose-Luis
Ojeda, Pepe
Monroy, Javier
Gonzalez-Jimenez, Javier
Ruiz-Sarmiento, Jose-Raul
contents Robots in human-centered environments require accurate scene understanding to perform high-level tasks effectively. This understanding can be achieved through instance-aware semantic mapping, which involves reconstructing elements at the level of individual instances. Neural networks, the de facto solution for scene understanding, still face limitations such as overconfident incorrect predictions with out-of-distribution objects or generating inaccurate masks.Placing excessive reliance on these predictions makes the reconstruction susceptible to errors, reducing the robustness of the resulting maps and hampering robot operation. In this work, we propose Voxeland, a probabilistic framework for incrementally building instance-aware semantic maps. Inspired by the Theory of Evidence, Voxeland treats neural network predictions as subjective opinions regarding map instances at both geometric and semantic levels. These opinions are aggregated over time to form evidences, which are formalized through a probabilistic model. This enables us to quantify uncertainty in the reconstruction process, facilitating the identification of map areas requiring improvement (e.g. reobservation or reclassification). As one strategy to exploit this, we incorporate a Large Vision-Language Model (LVLM) to perform semantic level disambiguation for instances with high uncertainty. Results from the standard benchmarking on the publicly available SceneNN dataset demonstrate that Voxeland outperforms state-of-the-art methods, highlighting the benefits of incorporating and leveraging both instance- and semantic-level uncertainties to enhance reconstruction robustness. This is further validated through qualitative experiments conducted on the real-world ScanNet dataset.
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spellingShingle Voxeland: Probabilistic Instance-Aware Semantic Mapping with Evidence-based Uncertainty Quantification
Matez-Bandera, Jose-Luis
Ojeda, Pepe
Monroy, Javier
Gonzalez-Jimenez, Javier
Ruiz-Sarmiento, Jose-Raul
Robotics
Robots in human-centered environments require accurate scene understanding to perform high-level tasks effectively. This understanding can be achieved through instance-aware semantic mapping, which involves reconstructing elements at the level of individual instances. Neural networks, the de facto solution for scene understanding, still face limitations such as overconfident incorrect predictions with out-of-distribution objects or generating inaccurate masks.Placing excessive reliance on these predictions makes the reconstruction susceptible to errors, reducing the robustness of the resulting maps and hampering robot operation. In this work, we propose Voxeland, a probabilistic framework for incrementally building instance-aware semantic maps. Inspired by the Theory of Evidence, Voxeland treats neural network predictions as subjective opinions regarding map instances at both geometric and semantic levels. These opinions are aggregated over time to form evidences, which are formalized through a probabilistic model. This enables us to quantify uncertainty in the reconstruction process, facilitating the identification of map areas requiring improvement (e.g. reobservation or reclassification). As one strategy to exploit this, we incorporate a Large Vision-Language Model (LVLM) to perform semantic level disambiguation for instances with high uncertainty. Results from the standard benchmarking on the publicly available SceneNN dataset demonstrate that Voxeland outperforms state-of-the-art methods, highlighting the benefits of incorporating and leveraging both instance- and semantic-level uncertainties to enhance reconstruction robustness. This is further validated through qualitative experiments conducted on the real-world ScanNet dataset.
title Voxeland: Probabilistic Instance-Aware Semantic Mapping with Evidence-based Uncertainty Quantification
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08727