beijing institute
MsFIN: Multi-scale Feature Interaction Network for Traffic Accident Anticipation
Wu, Tongshuai, Lu, Chao, Song, Ze, Lin, Yunlong, Fan, Sizhe, Chen, Xuemei
With the widespread deployment of dashcams and advancements in computer vision, developing accident prediction models from the dashcam perspective has become critical for proactive safety interventions. However, two key challenges persist: modeling feature-level interactions among traffic participants (often occluded in dashcam views) and capturing complex, asynchronous multi-temporal behavioral cues preceding accidents. To deal with these two challenges, a Multi-scale Feature Interaction Network (MsFIN) is proposed for early-stage accident anticipation from dashcam videos. MsFIN has three layers for multi-scale feature aggregation, temporal feature processing and multi-scale feature post fusion, respectively. For multi-scale feature aggregation, a Multi-scale Module is designed to extract scene representations at short-term, mid-term and long-term temporal scales. Meanwhile, the Transformer architecture is leveraged to facilitate comprehensive feature interactions. Temporal feature processing captures the sequential evolution of scene and object features under causal constraints. In the multi-scale feature post fusion stage, the network fuses scene and object features across multiple temporal scales to generate a comprehensive risk representation. Experiments on DAD and DADA datasets show that MsFIN significantly outperforms state-of-the-art models with single-scale feature extraction in both prediction correctness and earliness. Ablation studies validate the effectiveness of each module in MsFIN, highlighting how the network achieves superior performance through multi-scale feature fusion and contextual interaction modeling.
OmniMap: A General Mapping Framework Integrating Optics, Geometry, and Semantics
Deng, Yinan, Yue, Yufeng, Dou, Jianyu, Zhao, Jingyu, Wang, Jiahui, Tang, Yujie, Yang, Yi, Fu, Mengyin
Figure 1: We introduce OmniMap, a general online mapping framework integrating optics, geometry, and semantics. OmniMap incrementally maintains an open-vocabulary instance-level voxel representation and a 3DGS (3D Gaussian Splatting) representation, from which color and geometric meshes are derived. OmniMap supports multi-modal rendering (RGB / depth / normal / instance), and achieves state-of-the-art performance in rendering fidelity, mesh quality, and semantic understanding. This holistic framework enables versatile support for a wide range of downstream applications. Abstract--Robotic systems demand accurate and comprehensive 3D environment perception, requiring simultaneous capture of photo-realistic appearance (optical), precise layout shape (geometric), and open-vocabulary scene understanding (semantic). Existing methods typically achieve only partial fulfillment of these requirements while exhibiting optical blurring, geometric irregularities, and semantic ambiguities. T o address these challenges, we propose OmniMap. Overall, OmniMap represents the first online mapping framework that simultaneously captures optical, geometric, and semantic scene attributes while maintaining real-time performance and model compactness. This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 92370203, 62473050, 62233002, Beijing Natural Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Program QY24180. Mengyin Fu is with the School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China, and the School of Automation, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210018, China (e-mail: fumy@bit.edu.cn). The project page of OmniMap is available at https://omni-map.github.io/. At the implementation level, OmniMap identifies key challenges across different modalities and introduces several innovations: adaptive camera modeling for motion blur and exposure compensation, hybrid incremental representation with normal constraints, and probabilistic fusion for robust instance-level understanding. Extensive experiments show OmniMap's superior performance in rendering fidelity, geometric accuracy, and zero-shot semantic segmentation compared to state-of-the-art methods across diverse scenes. The framework's versatility is further evidenced through a variety of downstream applications, including multi-domain scene Q&A, interactive editing, perception-guided manipulation, and map-assisted navigation. The quality of a robot's 3D environmental representation, measured by its accuracy and dimensionality, fundamentally impacts the robot's task operational performance and execution capabilities.
TRUST-Planner: Topology-guided Robust Trajectory Planner for AAVs with Uncertain Obstacle Spatial-temporal Avoidance
Li, Junzhi, Long, Teng, Sun, Jingliang, Zhong, Jianxin
--Despite extensive developments in motion planning of autonomous aerial vehicles (AA Vs), existing frameworks faces the challenges of local minima and deadlock in complex dynamic environments, leading to increased collision risks. T o address these challenges, we present TRUST -Planner, a topology-guided hierarchical planning framework for robust spatial-temporal obstacle avoidance. In the frontend, a dynamic enhanced visible probabilistic roadmap (DEV-PRM) is proposed to rapidly explore topological paths for global guidance. The backend utilizes a uniform terminal-free minimum control polynomial (UTF-MINCO) and dynamic distance field (DDF) to enable efficient predictive obstacle avoidance and fast parallel computation. Furthermore, an incremental multi-branch trajectory management framework is introduced to enable spatio-temporal topological decision-making, while efficiently leveraging historical information to reduce replanning time. Simulation results show that TRUST - Planner outperforms baseline competitors, achieving a 96% success rate and millisecond-level computation efficiency in tested complex environments. Real-world experiments further validate the feasibility and practicality of the proposed method. URRENTL Y, autonomous aerial vehicles (AA Vs) play an increasingly crucial role in widespread areas, e.g., transportation, search and rescue, and sightseeing [1]. With the deepening of these applications, AA Vs are required to operate in increasingly complex and dynamic flight environments, where moving obstacles, such as pedestrians, vehicles, and other AA Vs, present growing risks of collision [2].
BESA: Boosting Encoder Stealing Attack with Perturbation Recovery
Ren, Xuhao, Liang, Haotian, Wang, Yajie, Zhang, Chuan, Xiong, Zehui, Zhu, Liehuang
--T o boost the encoder stealing attack under the perturbation-based defense that hinders the attack performance, we propose a boosting encoder stealing attack with perturbation recovery named BESA. It aims to overcome perturbation-based defenses. The core of BESA consists of two modules: perturbation detection and perturbation recovery, which can be combined with canonical encoder stealing attacks. The perturbation detection module utilizes the feature vectors obtained from the target encoder to infer the defense mechanism employed by the service provider . Once the defense mechanism is detected, the perturbation recovery module leverages the well-designed generative model to restore a clean feature vector from the perturbed one. Through extensive evaluations based on various datasets, we demonstrate that BESA significantly enhances the surrogate encoder accuracy of existing encoder stealing attacks by up to 24.63% when facing state-of-the-art defenses and combinations of multiple defenses. Pre-trained encoders are extensively utilized across various domains in real-world scenarios [1]. However, training well-performing pre-trained encoders is a time-consuming, resource-intensive, and costly process [2]. Hence, encoder owners are highly motivated to safeguard the privacy of their pre-trained encoders. Unfortunately, recent works have shown that pre-trained encoders are susceptible to encoder stealing attacks [3]. These attacks allow an attacker to create a surrogate encoder that closely mimics the functionality of a targeted encoder by simply querying it through the APIs. The consequences of such attacks can be quite severe.
Drone Carrier: An Integrated Unmanned Surface Vehicle for Autonomous Inspection and Intervention in GNSS-Denied Maritime Environment
Dong, Yihao, Din, Muhayyu Ud, Lagala, Francesco, Kuang, Hailiang, Sun, Jianjun, Yang, Siyuan, Hussain, Irfan, He, Shaoming
This paper introduces an innovative drone carrier concept that is applied in maritime port security or offshore rescue. This system works with a heterogeneous system consisting of multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) to perform inspection and intervention tasks in GNSS-denied or interrupted environments. The carrier, an electric catamaran measuring 4m by 7m, features a 4m by 6m deck supporting automated takeoff and landing for four DJI M300 drones, along with a 10kg-payload manipulator operable in up to level 3 sea conditions. Utilizing an offshore gimbal camera for navigation, the carrier can autonomously navigate, approach and dock with non-cooperative vessels, guided by an onboard camera, LiDAR, and Doppler Velocity Log (DVL) over a 3 km$^2$ area. UAVs equipped with onboard Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology execute mapping, detection, and manipulation tasks using a versatile gripper designed for wet, saline conditions. Additionally, two UAVs can coordinate to transport large objects to the manipulator or interact directly with them. These procedures are fully automated and were successfully demonstrated at the Mohammed Bin Zayed International Robotic Competition (MBZIRC2024), where the drone carrier equipped with four UAVS and one manipulator, automatically accomplished the intervention tasks in sea-level-3 (wave height 1.25m) based on the rough target information.
A 3-Step Optimization Framework with Hybrid Models for a Humanoid Robot's Jump Motion
Qi, Haoxiang, Yu, Zhangguo, Chen, Xuechao, Liu, Yaliang, Yi, Chuanku, Dong, Chencheng, Meng, Fei, Huang, Qiang
High dynamic jump motions are challenging tasks for humanoid robots to achieve environment adaptation and obstacle crossing. The trajectory optimization is a practical method to achieve high-dynamic and explosive jumping. This paper proposes a 3-step trajectory optimization framework for generating a jump motion for a humanoid robot. To improve iteration speed and achieve ideal performance, the framework comprises three sub-optimizations. The first optimization incorporates momentum, inertia, and center of pressure (CoP), treating the robot as a static reaction momentum pendulum (SRMP) model to generate corresponding trajectories. The second optimization maps these trajectories to joint space using effective Quadratic Programming (QP) solvers. Finally, the third optimization generates whole-body joint trajectories utilizing trajectories generated by previous parts. With the combined consideration of momentum and inertia, the robot achieves agile forward jump motions. A simulation and experiments (Fig. \ref{Fig First page fig}) of forward jump with a distance of 1.0 m and 0.5 m height are presented in this paper, validating the applicability of the proposed framework.
Semantic Scene Completion Based 3D Traversability Estimation for Off-Road Terrains
Chen, Zitong, Sun, Chao, Nie, Shida, Min, Chen, Ning, Changjiu, Li, Haoyu, Wang, Bo
Off-road environments present significant challenges for autonomous ground vehicles due to the absence of structured roads and the presence of complex obstacles, such as uneven terrain, vegetation, and occlusions. Traditional perception algorithms, designed primarily for structured environments, often fail under these conditions, leading to inaccurate traversability estimations. In this paper, ORDformer, a novel multimodal method that combines LiDAR point clouds with monocular images, is proposed to generate dense traversable occupancy predictions from a forward-facing perspective. By integrating multimodal data, environmental feature extraction is enhanced, which is crucial for accurate occupancy estimation in complex terrains. Furthermore, RELLIS-OCC, a dataset with 3D traversable occupancy annotations, is introduced, incorporating geometric features such as step height, slope, and unevenness. Through a comprehensive analysis of vehicle obstacle-crossing conditions and the incorporation of vehicle body structure constraints, four traversability cost labels are generated: lethal, medium-cost, low-cost, and free. Experimental results demonstrate that ORDformer outperforms existing approaches in 3D traversable area recognition, particularly in off-road environments with irregular geometries and partial occlusions. Specifically, ORDformer achieves over a 20\% improvement in scene completion IoU compared to other models. The proposed framework is scalable and adaptable to various vehicle platforms, allowing for adjustments to occupancy grid parameters and the integration of advanced dynamic models for traversability cost estimation.
Generalizable Indoor Human Activity Recognition Method Based on Micro-Doppler Corner Point Cloud and Dynamic Graph Learning
Yang, Xiaopeng, Gao, Weicheng, Qu, Xiaodong, Meng, Haoyu
Through-the-wall radar (TWR) human activity recognition can be achieved by fusing micro-Doppler signature extraction and intelligent decision-making algorithms. However, limited by the insufficient priori of tester in practical indoor scenarios, the trained models on one tester are commonly difficult to inference well on other testers, which causes poor generalization ability. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a generalizable indoor human activity recognition method based on micro-Doppler corner point cloud and dynamic graph learning. In the proposed method, DoG-{\mu}D-CornerDet is used for micro-Doppler corner extraction on two types of radar profiles. Then, a micro-Doppler corner filtering method based on polynomial fitting smoothing is proposed to maximize the feature distance under the constraints of the kinematic model. The extracted corners from the two types of radar profiles are concatenated together into three-dimensional point cloud. Finally, the paper proposes a dynamic graph neural network (DGNN)-based recognition method for data-to-activity label mapping. Visualization, comparison and ablation experiments are carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. The results prove that the proposed method has strong generalization ability on radar data collected from different testers.