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FlatLands dataset advances single-view floor map completion for navigation

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Researchers have introduced FlatLands, a new dataset and benchmark designed for completing bird's-eye view (BEV) floor maps from a single egocentric image. This dataset comprises over 270,000 observations from real indoor scenes, providing aligned data for observation, visibility, validity, and ground-truth BEV maps. The benchmark includes evaluation protocols for both in-distribution and out-of-distribution scenarios, testing various approaches including deterministic and stochastic generative models. FlatLands aims to serve as a rigorous testbed for uncertainty-aware indoor mapping and generative completion tasks relevant to embodied navigation. AI

IMPACT This dataset and benchmark could accelerate research in embodied navigation and generative AI for spatial understanding.

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FlatLands dataset advances single-view floor map completion for navigation

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Subhransu S. Bhattacharjee, Dylan Campbell, Rahul Shome ·

    FlatLands: Generative Floormap Completion From a Single Egocentric View

    arXiv:2603.16016v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A single egocentric image typically captures only a small portion of the floor, yet a complete metric traversability map of the surroundings would better serve applications such as indoor navigation. We introduce FlatLands…

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