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Image semantic segmentation is parsing image into several partitions in such a way that each region of which involves a semantic concept. In a weakly supervised manner, since only image-level labels are available, discriminating objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Mohammad Kamalzare , Reza Kahani , Alireza Talebpour , Ahmad Mahmoudi-Aznaveh

We introduce SceneScript, a method that directly produces full scene models as a sequence of structured language commands using an autoregressive, token-based approach. Our proposed scene representation is inspired by recent successes in…

Despite the recent progress of generative adversarial networks (GANs) at synthesizing photo-realistic images, producing complex urban scenes remains a challenging problem. Previous works break down scene generation into two consecutive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Guillaume Le Moing , Tuan-Hung Vu , Himalaya Jain , Patrick Pérez , Matthieu Cord

Training robots in simulation requires diverse 3D scenes that reflect the specific challenges of downstream tasks. However, scenes that satisfy strict task requirements, such as high-clutter environments with plausible spatial arrangement,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Nicholas Pfaff , Hongkai Dai , Sergey Zakharov , Shun Iwase , Russ Tedrake

Scenic is an open-source JAX library with a focus on Transformer-based models for computer vision research and beyond. The goal of this toolkit is to facilitate rapid experimentation, prototyping, and research of new vision architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Mostafa Dehghani , Alexey Gritsenko , Anurag Arnab , Matthias Minderer , Yi Tay

Until recently, the general corpus of CLIP-type fundamental models has widely explored either the retrieval of short descriptions or the classification of objects in the scene as SINGLE-object image classification task. The same holds for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Advik Sinha , Saurabh Atreya , Aashutosh A , Sk Aziz Ali , Abhijit Das

During the last half decade, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have triumphed over semantic segmentation, which is one of the core tasks in many applications such as autonomous driving and augmented reality. However, to train CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Yang Zhang , Philip David , Hassan Foroosh , Boqing Gong

For safe operation, a robot must be able to avoid collisions in uncertain environments. Existing approaches for motion planning under uncertainties often assume parametric obstacle representations and Gaussian uncertainty, which can be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Ralf Römer , Armin Lederer , Samuel Tesfazgi , Sandra Hirche

Trajectory prediction is a critical functionality of autonomous systems that share environments with uncontrolled agents, one prominent example being self-driving vehicles. Currently, most prediction methods do not enforce scene…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yuxiao Chen , Boris Ivanovic , Marco Pavone

Exploiting synthetic data to learn deep models has attracted increasing attention in recent years. However, the intrinsic domain difference between synthetic and real images usually causes a significant performance drop when applying the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Yuhua Chen , Wen Li , Luc Van Gool

Scene labeling task is to segment the image into meaningful regions and categorize them into classes of objects which comprised the image. Commonly used methods typically find the local features for each segment and label them using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-19 Nasim Souly , Mubarak Shah

We describe a general framework for probabilistic modeling of complex scenes and inference from ambiguous observations. The approach is motivated by applications in image analysis and is based on the use of priors defined by stochastic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Jeroen Chua , Pedro F. Felzenszwalb

Scenario-based development and test processes are a promising approach for verifying and validating automated driving functions. For this purpose, scenarios have to be generated during the development process in a traceable manner. In early…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Till Menzel , Gerrit Bagschik , Leon Isensee , Andre Schomburg , Markus Maurer

We introduce ScenarioControl, the first vision-language control mechanism for learned driving scenario generation. Given a text prompt or an input image, Scenario-Control synthesizes diverse, realistic 3D scenario rollouts - including map,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Lili Gao , Yanbo Xu , William Koch , Samuele Ruffino , Luke Rowe , Behdad Chalaki , Dmitriy Rivkin , Julian Ost , Roger Girgis , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide

Synchronous languages are now a standard industry tool for critical embedded systems. Designers write high-level specifications by composing streams of values using block diagrams. These languages have been extended with Bayesian reasoning…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Guillaume Baudart , Louis Mandel , Christine Tasson

The introduction of automated vehicles without permanent human supervision demands a functional system description, including functional system boundaries and a comprehensive safety analysis. These inputs to the technical development can be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Gerrit Bagschik , Till Menzel , Markus Maurer

This work explores scene graphs as a distilled representation of high-level information for autonomous driving, applied to future driver-action prediction. Given the scarcity and strong imbalance of data samples, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Pawit Kochakarn , Daniele De Martini , Daniel Omeiza , Lars Kunze

Full verification of learning-enabled cyber-physical systems (CPS) has long been intractable due to challenges including black-box components and complex real-world environments. Existing tools either provide formal guarantees for limited…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Eric Vin , Kyle A. Miller , Inigo Incer , Sanjit A. Seshia , Daniel J. Fremont

Scenario-based testing is envisioned as a key approach for the safety assurance of autonomous vehicles. In scenario-based testing, relevant (driving) scenarios are the basis of tests. Many recent works focus on specification, variation,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Till Schallau , Stefan Naujokat , Fiona Kullmann , Falk Howar

Vision-language models have recently emerged as promising planners for autonomous driving, where success hinges on topology-aware reasoning over spatial structure and dynamic interactions from multimodal input. However, existing models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Fabian Schmidt , Markus Enzweiler , Abhinav Valada