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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-D

Published September 7, 2026 · Category: Robotics

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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.

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Originally published at arxiv.org.

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