Evidential Semantic Mapping in Off-road Environments with Uncertainty-aware Bayesian Kernel Inference

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14138v1
• Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 05:13:34 GMT
• Title: Evidential Semantic Mapping in Off-road Environments with Uncertainty-aware Bayesian Kernel Inference
• Authors: Junyoung Kim, Junwon Seo, Jihong Min,
• Abstract summary: We propose an evidential semantic mapping framework, which can enhance reliability in perceptually challenging off-road environments. By adaptively handling semantic uncertainties, the proposed framework constructs robust representations of the surroundings even in previously unseen environments.
• Score: 5.120567378386614
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Robotic mapping with Bayesian Kernel Inference (BKI) has shown promise in creating semantic maps by effectively leveraging local spatial information. However, existing semantic mapping methods face challenges in constructing reliable maps in unstructured outdoor scenarios due to unreliable semantic predictions. To address this issue, we propose an evidential semantic mapping, which can enhance reliability in perceptually challenging off-road environments. We integrate Evidential Deep Learning into the semantic segmentation network to obtain the uncertainty estimate of semantic prediction. Subsequently, this semantic uncertainty is incorporated into an uncertainty-aware BKI, tailored to prioritize more confident semantic predictions when accumulating semantic information. By adaptively handling semantic uncertainties, the proposed framework constructs robust representations of the surroundings even in previously unseen environments. Comprehensive experiments across various off-road datasets demonstrate that our framework enhances accuracy and robustness, consistently outperforming existing methods in scenes with high perceptual uncertainties.

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