SeMaNa: Semantic-Aware Mapping and Navigation

Accepted Papers

• Towards Generalization of Tactile Image Generation: Reference-Free Evaluation in a Leakage-Free Setting

  Cagri Gungor, Derek Eppinger, Adriana Kovashka

• Learning What Stays: Persistence-Based Semantic Map Layering for Warehouse Robot Localization

  Humayun Akhtar

• SafeHRI-Nav: A Context-Aware Low-Level Safe Navigation Benchmark for Human-Robot Interaction

  Jisu Han, Hyunwoong Bae, Taesup Moon

• ActiveSIGMA: Semantic Inconsistency-Guided Active Mapping

  Wei-Chen Hsu, Zheng-Xu Cai, Yen-Ku Yeh, Ching-Chun Huang

• When Do Zero-Shot Foundation Features Matter for Cross-Session Object Identity?

  Jiacheng Guo

• Target-Aware Active 3D Gaussian Splatting for Query-Conditioned Object Reconstruction

  Wenjun Liu, Mengmeng Yao, You Li

• CGFM-Nav: Cognitive Graph-Field Memory for Semantic-Guided Lifelong Multimodal Embodied Navigation

  Yuxiang Xiao, Xibei Chen, ZHOU XIN, Jie Chen, Yifeng Zhang, Guillaume Adrien Sartoretti

• From Regions to Hierarchies: Fast, Context-Aware Off-Road Path Planning

  Pranay Meshram, Charuvahan Adhivarahan, Ehsan Esfahani, Souma Chowdhury, Chen Wang, Karthik K Dantu

• STABLE: Semantic Tracking and Backbone-Linked Environment for XR Teleoperation

  Subhransu Sourav Priyadarshan, Federico Rollo, Valentina Pericu, Gianni Viardo Vercelli, Navvab Kashiri

• Online Robot Parameter Tuning from Demonstration and Multi-Modal Context Classification

  Ryan Lee, Justin Hart, Robert Blake Anderson, Corrie Van Sice, Andrew Sharp, Mitch Pryor

• SemSafe-3DGS: Semantic Risk-Aware Active Navigation in Uncertain 3D Gaussian Splatting Maps

  Amirhossein Mollaei Khass, Athanasios Cosse, Nader Motee

• Decision-Sufficient Semantic Maps: Planner-Aware Compression for Goal-Directed Navigation

  Krishna Harish

• ArtiSG: Functional 3D Scene Graph Construction via Human-demonstrated Articulated Objects Manipulation

  Qiuyi Gu, Yuze Sheng, Jincheng Yu, Jiahao Tang, shanxiaolong, Zhaoyang Shen, Tinghao Yi, Xiaodan Liang, Xinlei Chen, Yu Wang

• ChangeVLN: A Benchmark for Vision-Language Navigation in Changed Environments

  Sohee Kang, Nuri Kim

• OPAL – Omnidirectional Path-efficient Aerial 3D expLoration

  Yoga Satwik Chappidi, Avideh Zakhor

• Making a Shape Generator a Scene Builder: Fine-Grained Scene-Level Metric-Semantic Maps

  Christopher D Hsu, Pratik Chaudhari

• CHAD-SLAM: Charting CAD Models in Visual SLAM

  Saad Ejaz, Ali Tourani, Miguel Fernandez Cortizas, Javier Civera, Jose Luis Sanchez Lopez, Holger Voos

• Humanoids at Home: Autobiographical Semantic Maps for Humanoid Motion from Memory in a Reconstructed Domestic Environment

  Daniel Pillis

• Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Dense Mapping via Exchanged Semantic–Geometric Verifications

  Siqi Tan, Dongjiao He, Yuhao Zhang, Daniele De Martini, Maurice Fallon

• CoGaussian: Open-Vocabulary Gaussian-based Collaborative 3D Scene Understanding

  Om Shivam Verma, Shaya Farahmand, Lingjun Zhao, Lu Gan

• Mobility-Budget-Constrained Submodular Maximization for Distributed Semantic Multi-Robot Exploration

  Changxuan Yao, Sandilya Sai Garimella, Lu Gan, Panagiotis Tsiotras

• DejaView: Metric-Free Dynamic Spatial Memory for Mobile Robots in Changing Environments

  Juexiao Zhang, Luca Macesanu, Greta Perez-Haiek, Mohammed K Imam, Chen Feng

• SCOUT: Semantic Class-Specific Online Update for Traversability in Densely Vegetated Environments

  Seungje Seong, Weichen Qiu, Vivek Thangavelu, Aaron M. Johnson

• Point-Level Refinable Semantic Mapping for Spatial Understanding

  Taimeng Fu, Yi Du, Zitong Zhan, Qiwei Du, Shaoshu Su, Zhipeng Zhao, Chen Wang

• VL-Nav: Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning-based Vision-Language Navigation

  Yi Du, Taimeng Fu, Zhipeng Zhao, Shaoshu Su, Zitong Zhan, Qiwei Du, Zhuoqun Chen, Bowen Li, Chen Wang

• Meanings and Measurements: Multi-Agent Probabilistic Grounding for Vision-Language Navigation

  Lakshya Jain, Swagat Padhan, Bhavya Minesh Shah, Omkar Patil, Thao Nguyen, Nakul Gopalan