SONG: A Photorealistic 3D Gaussian Simulation Platform for Benchmarking Social Navigation

arXiv:2607.25219v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Social navigation has progressed from simplified 2D environments toward a more general vision-based setting, in which a robot needs to achieve socially compliant behavior purely from onboard visual observations. Yet supporting simulation platforms have not kept pace: existing options either lack visual observations, lack moving human avatars, or fall short of real-world fidelity in appearance and pedestrian behavior, offering limited support for ad...