AI RESEARCH
Splatblox: Traversability-Aware Gaussian Splatting for Outdoor Robot Navigation
arXiv CS.CV
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ArXi:2511.18525v2 Announce Type: replace-cross We present Splatblox, a real-time system for autonomous navigation in outdoor environments with dense vegetation, irregular obstacles, and complex terrain. Our method fuses segmented RGB images and LiDAR point clouds using Gaussian Splatting to construct a traversability-aware Euclidean Signed Distance Field (ESDF) that jointly encodes geometry and semantics.