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This research advances autonomous driving safety by addressing the critical challenge of detecting out-of-distribution objects in 3D semantic occupancy prediction. The proposed OccOoD framework leverages cross-space semantic refinement to improve anomaly detection without compromising standard prediction accuracy, supported by new augmented datasets designed for realistic spatial patterns. These contributions directly enhance the robustness of perception systems against long-tail scenarios and undetected hazards.
Out-of-Distribution Semantic Occupancy Prediction
arXiv:2506.21185v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: 3D semantic occupancy prediction is crucial for autonomous driving, providing a dense, semantically rich environmental representation. However, existing methods focus on in-distribution scenes, making them susceptible to Out-of-Distribution (OoD) objects and long-tail distributions, which increase the risk of undetected anomalies and misinterpretations, posing safety hazards. To address these challenges, we introduce the task of Out-of-Distribution Semantic Occupancy Prediction, targeting OoD detection in 3D voxel space. To fill dataset gaps, we propose Realistic Anomaly Augmentation that injects synthetic anomalies while preserving realistic spatial and occlusion patterns, enabling the creation of two datasets: VAA-KITTI and VAA-KITTI-360. We then propose OccOoD, a novel framework that integrates OoD detection into 3D semantic occupancy prediction, which uses Cross-Space Semantic Refinement (CSSR) to refine semantic predictions from complementary voxel and BEV representations, improving OoD detection. Experimental results demonstrate that OccOoD achieves an AuROC of 65.50% and an AuPRCr of 31.83% within a 1.2m radius, while maintaining competitive semantic occupancy prediction accuracy, significantly improving detection sensitivity for unknown obstacles, and validating strong generalization in real-world urban driving scenes. The established datasets and source code will be made publicly available at https://github.com/7uHeng/OccOoD.
Abstract:3D semantic occupancy prediction is crucial for autonomous driving, providing a dense, semantically rich environmental representation. However, existing methods focus on in-distribution scenes, making them susceptible to Out-of-Distribution (OoD) objects and long-tail distributions, which increase the risk of undetected anomalies and misinterpretations, posing safety hazards. To address these challenges, we introduce the task of Out-of-Distribution Semantic Occupancy Prediction, targeting OoD detection in 3D voxel space. To fill dataset gaps, we propose Realistic Anomaly Augmentation that injects synthetic anomalies while preserving realistic spatial and occlusion patterns, enabling the creation of two datasets: VAA-KITTI and VAA-KITTI-360. We then propose OccOoD, a novel framework that integrates OoD detection into 3D semantic occupancy prediction, which uses Cross-Space Semantic Refinement (CSSR) to refine semantic predictions from complementary voxel and BEV representations, improving OoD detection. Experimental results demonstrate that OccOoD achieves an AuROC of 65.50% and an AuPRCr of 31.83% within a 1.2m radius, while maintaining competitive semantic occupancy prediction accuracy, significantly improving detection sensitivity for unknown obstacles, and validating strong generalization in real-world urban driving scenes. The established datasets and source code will be made publicly available at this https URL.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Robotics (cs.RO); Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
arXiv:2506.21185 [cs.CV]
(or arXiv:2506.21185v3 [cs.CV] for this version)
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