GaussianSeed: Hierarchical Gaussian Seeding for High-Resolution 3D Occupancy Prediction

Abstract

Vision-centric 3D occupancy prediction provides dense scene representations essential for autonomous driving and robotic navigation, yet existing methods struggle to scale to high voxel resolutions due to prohibitive computational costs. To address this, we introduce GaussianSeed, a progressive multi-scale Gaussian occupancy prediction framework that organizes primitives into a coarse-to-fine hierarchy. Benefiting from this hierarchical design, GaussianSeed effectively circumvents the memory bottlenecks inherent in dense representations, successfully scaling to a $0.1\text{m}$ spatial resolution while maintaining real-time inference capabilities. To comprehensively evaluate high-resolution geometric perception, we further construct TJScenes, a panoramic six-camera occupancy dataset with highly detailed $0.1\text{m}$ annotations. Extensive experiments on Occ3D-nuScenes and TJScenes demonstrate that GaussianSeed delivers the lowest latency among all evaluated methods while maintaining highly competitive accuracy, advancing the efficiency-quality frontier of high-resolution 3D occupancy prediction.