# OpenNav: Efficient Open Vocabulary 3D Object Detection for Smart Wheelchair Navigation

Source: [OpenNav: Efficient Open Vocabulary 3D Object Detection for Smart Wheelchair Navigation](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa748d1e209131cea626e8>)

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Authors: Muhammad Rameez ur Rahman, Piero Simonetto, Anna Polato, Francesco Pasti, Luca Tonin, Sebastiano Vascon

Published: 2024-08-25T20:53:53.000Z

## Abstract

Open vocabulary 3D object detection (OV3D) allows precise and extensible object recognition crucial for adapting to diverse environments encountered in assistive robotics. This paper presents OpenNav, a zero-shot 3D object detection pipeline based on RGB-D images for smart wheelchairs. Our pipeline integrates an open-vocabulary 2D object detector with a mask generator for semantic segmentation, followed by depth isolation and point cloud construction to create 3D bounding boxes. The smart wheelchair exploits these 3D bounding boxes to identify potential targets and navigate safely. We demonstrate OpenNav's performance through experiments on the Replica dataset and we report preliminary results with a real wheelchair. OpenNav improves state-of-the-art significantly on the Replica dataset at mAP25 (+9pts) and mAP50 (+5pts) with marginal improvement at mAP. The code is publicly available at this link: https://github.com/EasyWalk-PRIN/OpenNav.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13936>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.13936.pdf>)