Publication
Interactive Open-Set Semantic Mapping with a 3D Scene Graph Backend
Felix Igelbrink; Lennart Niecksch; Martin Günther; Marian Renz; Oscar Lima; Martin Atzmueller
In: Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2026), August 15-21, Bremen, Germany, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, 2026.
Abstract
While Open-Set Semantic Mapping and 3D Semantic Scene Graphs (3DSSGs) have become established paradigms in robotic perception in recent years, most existing works are limited to small environments or sacrifice geometric detail and instance granularity for scalability.
Deploying these systems at scale for large multi-room environments remains a major challenge due to the computational overhead of high-dimensional feature integration and the maintenance of the 3DSSG structure.
In this paper, we demonstrate a modular mapping architecture that establishes 3D Semantic Scene Graphs (3DSSGs) as its foundational backend.
Unlike approaches that generate scene graphs as a post-processing step, our system maintains the graph as the primary, incrementally updated knowledge representation.
Our architecture is optimized for GPU-accelerated operations, enabling the dense representation of extensive environments containing thousands of unique object instances, supporting open-vocabulary queries via CLIP features without requiring any additional post-processing steps.
In this live demonstration, we showcase our pipeline processing large-scale data from the Habitat Matterport 3D (HM3D) dataset as well as live data collected from a handheld device. Attendees will interact with the generated maps by performing real-time, open-set queries (e.g., "find the vintage wooden chair") across complex, multi-story environments, highlights the system's capability to represent dynamic, human-aligned environmental understanding suitable for downstream robotic tasks.