[Submitted on 13 Oct 2026]
Title:Receding-Horizon Next-Best-View Planning for Highly Occluded Target Perception
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Abstract:Robotic systems that must acquire information about a specific target often face severe occlusion from sur- rounding structures or from the target itself, such that a single camera viewpoint provides only partial information. Active perception must therefore select viewpoints that progressively reveal unobserved regions. However, conventional local next- best-view (NBV) methods typically select viewpoints according to their immediate utility, which can overlook views that provide limited information initially but enable more informative obser- vations from subsequent viewpoints. We formulated local target perception as a short-horizon sequential view-planning problem and proposed a Receding-Horizon Next-Best-View (RH-NBV) planner that evaluates candidate sequences of future viewpoints rather than isolated views. RH-NBV is evaluated on a UR5e manipulator with an eye-in-hand RGB-D camera in simulation as well as on physical robot against a gradient-based NBV planner, and random search, using a coffee mug and Stanford bunny under controlled occlusion and a tomato plant with natural self-occlusion. Under heavy occlusion, RH-NBV achieves substantially higher target information recovery, reaching 63.8% ROI coverage versus 34.2% and 85.5% occluded-surface recall versus 7.4% for the single-step NBV baselines on the most occluded mug configuration. A controlled horizon ablation shows that this improvement arises from multi-step reasoning rather than additional computation. RH-NBV provides the greatest benefit for strongly occluded targets, while myopic NBV remains competitive and substantially cheaper when visibility is less constrained.
Comments: 9 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables
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Robotics (cs.RO)
Cite as: arXiv:2610.19082 [cs.RO]
(or arXiv:2610.19082v1 [cs.RO] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.19082
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From: Rekha Raja [view email] [v1] Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:14:02 UTC (10,810 KB)
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