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How should representations from complementary sensors be integrated for autonomous driving? Geometry-based sensor fusion has shown great promise for perception tasks such as object detection and motion forecasting. However, for the actual…
A self-driving vehicle must understand its environment to determine the appropriate action. Traditional autonomy systems rely on object detection to find the agents in the scene. However, object detection assumes a discrete set of objects…
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Accurate and real-time traffic state prediction is of great practical importance for urban traffic control and web mapping services. With the support of massive data, deep learning methods have shown their powerful capability in capturing…
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