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Autonomous mobility systems increasingly operate in dense and dynamic environments where perception occlusions, limited sensing coverage, and multi-agent interactions pose major challenges. While onboard sensors provide essential local…

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As a critical task in autonomous driving perception systems, 3D object detection is used to identify and track key objects, such as vehicles and pedestrians. However, detecting distant, small, or occluded objects (hard instances) remains a…

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In search applications, autonomous unmanned vehicles must be able to efficiently reacquire and localize mobile targets that can remain out of view for long periods of time in large spaces. As such, all available information sources must be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Luke Burks , Ian Loefgren , Luke Barbier , Jeremy Muesing , Jamison McGinley , Sousheel Vunnam , Nisar Ahmed

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become an emerging tool for dynamic scene reconstruction. However, existing methods focus mainly on extending static 3DGS into a time-variant representation, while overlooking the rich motion information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Zhiyang Guo , Wengang Zhou , Li Li , Min Wang , Houqiang Li

Diffusion models are promising for joint trajectory prediction and controllable generation in autonomous driving, but they face challenges of inefficient inference steps and high computational demands. To tackle these challenges, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Yixiao Wang , Chen Tang , Lingfeng Sun , Simone Rossi , Yichen Xie , Chensheng Peng , Thomas Hannagan , Stefano Sabatini , Nicola Poerio , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan

Accurately predicting 3D occupancy grids from visual inputs is critical for autonomous driving, but current discriminative methods struggle with noisy data, incomplete observations, and the complex structures inherent in 3D scenes. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yunshen Wang , Yicheng Liu , Tianyuan Yuan , Yingshi Liang , Xiuyu Yang , Honggang Zhang , Hang Zhao

Gaussian mixtures are widely used for approximating density functions in various applications such as density estimation, belief propagation, and Bayesian filtering. These applications often utilize Gaussian mixtures as initial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-18 Qiong Zhang , Archer Gong Zhang , Jiahua Chen

In recent years, the rapid development of high-precision map technology combined with artificial intelligence has ushered in a new development opportunity in the field of intelligent vehicles. High-precision map technology is an important…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yong Wang , Yanlin Zhou , Huan Ji , Zheng He , Xinyu Shen

GNSS localization is an important part of today's autonomous systems, although it suffers from non-Gaussian errors caused by non-line-of-sight effects. Recent methods are able to mitigate these effects by including the corresponding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Tim Pfeifer , Peter Protzel

Traction adaptive motion planning and control has potential to improve an an automated vehicle's ability to avoid accident in a critical situation. However, such functionality require an accurate friction estimate for the road ahead of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Lars Svensson , Martin Törngren

Multi-robot systems require scalable and federated methods to model complex environments under computational and communication constraints. Gaussian Processes (GPs) offer robust probabilistic modeling, but suffer from cubic computational…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Sanket A. Salunkhe , George P. Kontoudis

Urban transportation is being transformed by mobility-on-demand (MoD) systems. One of the goals of MoD systems is to provide personalized transportation services to passengers. This process is facilitated by a centralized operator that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Amanda Prorok , Vijay Kumar

Consensus is a popular technique for distributed state estimation. This formulation allows networks of connected agents or sensors to exchange information about the distribution of a set of targets with their immediate neighbors without the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Ishan Paranjape , Islam Hussein , Jeremy Murray-Krezan , Sean Phillips , Suman Chakravorty

Research on connected vehicles represents a continuously evolving technological domain, fostered by the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm and the recent advances in intelligent transportation systems. Nowadays, vehicles are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Luca Varotto , Angelo Cenedese

Forecasting pedestrians' future motions is essential for autonomous driving systems to safely navigate in urban areas. However, existing prediction algorithms often overly rely on past observed trajectories and tend to fail around abrupt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Dongxu Guo , Taylor Mordan , Alexandre Alahi

Decentralized Gaussian process (GP) methods offer a scalable framework for multi-agent scalar-field estimation by replacing a centralized global model with multiple local models maintained by individual agents. A team of agents operates…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Hossein Papi , Muzaffar Qureshi , Kyle Volle , Rushikesh Kamalapurkar

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) localization is of significant importance as it provides fundamental position and orientation for autonomous operations like intelligent vehicles. Integrating diverse and complementary sensors such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Wei Liu , Jiaqi Zhu , Guirong Zhuo , Wufei Fu , Zonglin Meng , Yishi Lu , Min Hua , Feng Qiao , You Li , Yi He , Lu Xiong

The Internet of Things (IoT) envisions billions of sensors deployed around us and connected to the Internet, where the mobile crowd sensing technologies are widely used to collect data in different contexts of the IoT paradigm. Due to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Charith Perera , Dumidu Talagala , Chi Harold Liu , Julio C. Estrella

We present a novel decentralized algorithm for coverage control in unknown spatial environments modeled by Gaussian Processes (GPs). To trade-off between exploration and exploitation, each agent autonomously determines its trajectory by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Gennaro Guidone , Luca Monegaglia , Elia Raimondi , Han Wang , Mattia Bianchi , Florian Dörfler

Emerging wearable sensors have enabled the unprecedented ability to continuously monitor human activities for healthcare purposes. However, with so many ambient sensors collecting different measurements, it becomes important not only to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Randy Ardywibowo , Guang Zhao , Zhangyang Wang , Bobak Mortazavi , Shuai Huang , Xiaoning Qian