Semantic-Aware Predictive Mapping for Exploration and Navigation

arXiv:2610.10382v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predictive mapping can support robotic exploration and navigation by estimating unseen geometric layouts from partial occupancy observations. However, occupancy-only representations may fail to distinguish semantically different structures with similar geometry. This is particularly relevant for indoor doors, which may appear as occupied cells like walls but indicate possible connected rooms or corridors beyond the observed region. This work investigates whether semantic door cues improve predictive geometric occupancy mapping around such ambiguous regions. We modify a subset of the CogniPlan dataset by inserting door-induced ambiguities into partial occupancy maps while keeping the ground-truth layouts unchanged. We compare a geometry-only control model with a semantic-cued model trained on the same modified dataset, where the semantic-cued model receives an additional door channel. Evaluation uses L1 error, F1 score, and Intersection over Union (IoU) over both the full map and a 10-pixel door-region mask. Full-map performance remains broadly similar between models, but localized door-region results show a clear qualitative improvement: L1 decreases from 0.004342 to 0.000025, while F1 and IoU improve from 0.031311 and 0.015905 to 1.000000 and 1.000000, respectively. These results suggest that semantic cues can improve predictive occupancy completion in regions where geometric observations alone are ambiguous.

Abstract:Predictive mapping can support robotic exploration and navigation by estimating unseen geometric layouts from partial occupancy observations. However, occupancy-only representations may fail to distinguish semantically different structures with similar geometry. This is particularly relevant for indoor doors, which may appear as occupied cells like walls but indicate possible connected rooms or corridors beyond the observed region. This work investigates whether semantic door cues improve predictive geometric occupancy mapping around such ambiguous regions. We modify a subset of the CogniPlan dataset by inserting door-induced ambiguities into partial occupancy maps while keeping the ground-truth layouts unchanged. We compare a geometry-only control model with a semantic-cued model trained on the same modified dataset, where the semantic-cued model receives an additional door channel. Evaluation uses L1 error, F1 score, and Intersection over Union (IoU) over both the full map and a 10-pixel door-region mask. Full-map performance remains broadly similar between models, but localized door-region results show a clear qualitative improvement: L1 decreases from 0.004342 to 0.000025, while F1 and IoU improve from 0.031311 and 0.015905 to 1.000000 and 1.000000, respectively. These results suggest that semantic cues can improve predictive occupancy completion in regions where geometric observations alone are ambiguous.

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arXiv:2610.10382 [cs.RO]

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