Master Thesis MSTR-2025-38

BibliographyMurali, Aswin: Intelligent Scene Understanding from Object Detection in Industrial Environments.
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology, Master Thesis No. 38 (2025).
69 pages, english.
Abstract

Understanding3Dscenesisacornerstoneofautonomousmobilerobotnavigationandinteraction, especiallywithincomplexindustrialenvironments.Traditionaloccupancy-basedSLAMmethods typicallyemphasizespatialgeometry,yetoftenlacksemanticcontext—anessentialcomponentfor informeddecision-making,object-levelreasoning,andprecisetaskexecution.Toovercomethis, varioussceneunderstandingapproacheshavebeenproposed;however,theyareoftenconstrainedby their relianceonlargeannotateddatasets,challengesindetectingcustomornovelobjects,di!culties in sensorfusionduetonon-overlappingfieldofviews,andconstraintswithreal-timeperformance. These shortcomingssignificantlylimittheadaptabilityandscalabilityofsceneunderstandingin real-worldapplications.Thisthesispresentsanovelsystemthatequipsmobilerobotswiththe ability togeneratesemanticallyrich2Doccupancymapsenhancedby3Dobjectreconstructions through amulti-viewfusionframework.Crucially,itenablesthedetectionofnovelobjectswith minimal supervision,eliminatingtheneedforlargeannotateddatasets,humanannotationsand reducing deploymentoverhead.Byaggregatingobjectdetectionsfrommultipleperspectives,the systemdeliversmoreaccurateandresilient3Dreconstructions.Enhancing2Doccupancymaps with 3Dobjectreconstructionsintroducessemanticstructureandobject-levelawarenessintothe spatial map,enablingricherunderstandingofthescene.Theproposedsystemrepresentsastep towardsreal-time,andscalable3Dsceneunderstanding—pavingthewayformoreintelligent, autonomous, andadaptablemobilerobotsindynamicindustrialsettings.

Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Systems
Superviser(s)Arras, Prof. Kai; Roitberg, Jun.-Prof. Alina; Scaparro, Fabio; Kumar, Abhilash Nand
Entry dateOctober 2, 2025
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