用视觉模型精准判断复杂户外地形能否通过,减少误判。
From General Vision to Reliable Traversability Estimation: Adapting Vision Foundation Models for Unstructured Outdoor Environments

- 用可学习的提示注入任务知识,保留模型泛化能力
- 通过多视角训练降低标注模糊处的错误预测
- 融合语义与几何信息,实现连续可解释的通行评分
基于视觉的方法已成为非结构化户外环境通行性估计的主流,通常通过语义分割监督来适配视觉基础模型(VFMs)。然而,该范式面临三大根本挑战:VFMs的任务无关设计、通行性标注的模糊性以及语义标签与物理安全之间的差异。本文提出视觉到通行性适配框架ViTA,以SAM2为基础实例化。ViTA通过可学习的通行性提示注入任务特定知识,同时保持视觉基础模型的跨域泛化能力。为应对标注模糊性,引入视角多样化训练,通过估计语义不确定性来抑制模糊边界上的高置信度预测。为弥合语义与通行性差异,训练中蒸馏几何知识,使仅凭RGB图像在推理时即可实现坡度和高程推理。语义与几何输出融合为连续通行性评分,反映语义不确定性和几何风险。在多种真实世界越野数据集上的评估表明,ViTA在多项指标上达到当前最优,显著降低误报率,并具备强跨域泛化能力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Vision-based approaches have become the dominant paradigm for traversability estimation in unstructured outdoor environments, typically adapting vision foundation models (VFMs) via semantic segmentation supervision. However, this paradigm faces three fundamental challenges that undermine its reliability: the task-agnostic design of VFMs, the ambiguity of traversability annotations, and the discrepancy between semantic labels and physical safety. We propose Vision-to-Traversability Adaptation (ViTA), a framework that adapts VFMs for reliable traversability estimation, instantiated on SAM2. ViTA injects task-specific knowledge through learnable traversability prompts while preserving the VFM's cross-domain generalization. To handle annotation ambiguity, we introduce Perspective-Diversified Training, which estimates semantic uncertainty to suppress confident predictions at ambiguous boundaries. To bridge the semantic-traversability discrepancy, we distill geometric knowledge during training, enabling slope and elevation reasoning from RGB images alone at inference. The semantic and geometric outputs are fused into a continuous traversability score that reflects both semantic uncertainty and geometric risk. Evaluations across diverse domains, including challenging real-world off-road datasets, demonstrate that ViTA achieves state-of-the-art IoU and Precision with substantial false-positive reduction and strong cross-domain generalization.
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