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BPDA-GMM introduces an online Bayesian framework for semantic SLAM that dynamically manages growing object-level maps using a Dirichlet-process prior to handle perceptual aliasing. By combining a Chinese Restaurant Process association model with a decoupled back-end, the method effectively refines landmarks from noisy detections without perturbing the trajectory. This approach offers a robust solution for autonomous navigation in complex indoor environments where existing fixed-map assumptions fail.
BPDA-GMM: Bayesian Probabilistic Data Association via Gaussian Mixture Models for Semantic SLAM
arXiv:2606.04618v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Probabilistic data association (PDA) improves semantic SLAM in perceptually aliased scenes, but existing methods often assume a fixed landmark set, recompute association weights as the map grows, or rely on hand-tuned null-hypothesis weights. To address these limitations, we propose \textbf{BPDA-GMM}, an online Bayesian PDA framework for semantic SLAM with a growing object-level map. BPDA-GMM uses a Dirichlet-process prior to induce a Chinese Restaurant Process (CRP) association model, where accumulated evidence favors existing landmarks, and the concentration parameter assigns probability mass to new landmarks. For each semantic detection, plausible candidates are selected by a joint semantic-geometric gate, CRP-weighted association probabilities are computed, and object landmarks are updated as semantic Gaussians in closed form. The resulting landmark set forms a Gaussian mixture model, and its dominant component is passed to the back-end as a max-mixture semantic factor. When association weights are inconclusive, an ambiguity-triggered $\alpha$-divergence tempering step improves discrimination. Finally, a decoupled back-end zeroes the pose Jacobian of semantic factors, allowing noisy detections to refine landmarks without directly perturbing the trajectory. Experiments in simulation and on a real indoor dataset demonstrate improved trajectory accuracy, semantic mapping quality, and robustness to perceptual aliasing and classifier errors over state-of-the-art baselines. Code and video are publicly available at https://github.com/thanhnguyencanh/BPDA-SLAM.
Abstract:Probabilistic data association (PDA) improves semantic SLAM in perceptually aliased scenes, but existing methods often assume a fixed landmark set, recompute association weights as the map grows, or rely on hand-tuned null-hypothesis weights. To address these limitations, we propose \textbf{BPDA-GMM}, an online Bayesian PDA framework for semantic SLAM with a growing object-level map. BPDA-GMM uses a Dirichlet-process prior to induce a Chinese Restaurant Process (CRP) association model, where accumulated evidence favors existing landmarks, and the concentration parameter assigns probability mass to new landmarks. For each semantic detection, plausible candidates are selected by a joint semantic-geometric gate, CRP-weighted association probabilities are computed, and object landmarks are updated as semantic Gaussians in closed form. The resulting landmark set forms a Gaussian mixture model, and its dominant component is passed to the back-end as a max-mixture semantic factor. When association weights are inconclusive, an ambiguity-triggered $\alpha$-divergence tempering step improves discrimination. Finally, a decoupled back-end zeroes the pose Jacobian of semantic factors, allowing noisy detections to refine landmarks without directly perturbing the trajectory. Experiments in simulation and on a real indoor dataset demonstrate improved trajectory accuracy, semantic mapping quality, and robustness to perceptual aliasing and classifier errors over state-of-the-art baselines. Code and video are publicly available at this https URL.
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