Estimating Drivable Collision-Free Space from Monocular Video
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this paper we propose a novel algorithm for estimating the drivable collision-free space for autonomous navigation of on-road and on-water vehicles. In contrast to previous approaches that use stereo cameras or LIDAR, we show a method to solve this problem using a single camera. Inspired by the success of many vision algorithms that employ dynamic programming for efficient inference, we reduce the free space estimation task to an inference problem on a 1D graph, where each node represents a column in the image and its label denotes a position that separates the free space from the obstacles. Our algorithm exploits several image and geometric features based on edges, color, and homography to define potential functions on the 1D graph, whose parameters are learned through structured SVM. We show promising results on the challenging KITTI dataset as well as video collected from boats.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it