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Multi-sensor fusion is crucial for improving the performance and robustness of end-to-end autonomous driving systems. Existing methods predominantly adopt either attention-based flatten fusion or bird's eye view fusion through geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Shuai Liu , Quanmin Liang , Zefeng Li , Boyang Li , Kai Huang

The challenges presented in an autonomous racing situation are distinct from those faced in regular autonomous driving and require faster end-to-end algorithms and consideration of a longer horizon in determining optimal current actions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Praveen Venkatesh , Rwik Rana , Harish PM

In recent years, vision-based end-to-end autonomous driving has emerged as a new paradigm. However, popular end-to-end approaches typically rely on visual feature extraction networks trained under label supervision. This limited supervision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Ling Niu , Xiaoji Zheng , Han Wang , Chen Zheng , Ziyuan Yang , Bokui Chen , Jiangtao Gong

Recent years have seen remarkable progress in autonomous driving, yet generalization to long-tail and open-world scenarios remains a major bottleneck for large-scale deployment. To address this challenge, some works use LLMs and VLMs for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Hao Shao , Letian Wang , Yang Zhou , Yuxuan Hu , Zhuofan Zong , Steven L. Waslander , Wei Zhan , Hongsheng Li

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with multiple complementary sensors have tremendous potential for fast autonomous or remote-controlled semantic scene analysis, e.g., for disaster examination. In this work, we propose a UAV system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Simon Bultmann , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

Autonomous driving technology has advanced significantly, yet detecting driving anomalies remains a major challenge due to the long-tailed distribution of driving events. Existing methods primarily rely on single-modal road condition video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Long Zhouxiang , Ovanes Petrosian

Autonomous driving (AD) technology, leveraging artificial intelligence, strives for vehicle automation. End-toend strategies, emerging to simplify traditional driving systems by integrating perception, decision-making, and control, offer…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Dong Hu , Chao Huang , Jingda Wu , Hongbo Gao

Ensuring reliable autonomous operation when visual input is degraded remains a key challenge in intelligent vehicles and robotics. We present DepthVision, a multimodal framework that enables Vision--Language Models (VLMs) to exploit LiDAR…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Sven Kirchner , Nils Purschke , Ross Greer , Alois C. Knoll

End-to-end autonomous driving systems promise stronger performance through unified optimization of perception, motion forecasting, and planning. However, vision-based approaches face fundamental limitations in adverse weather conditions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Philipp Wolters , Johannes Gilg , Torben Teepe , Gerhard Rigoll

Autonomous vehicle navigation is a key challenge in artificial intelligence, requiring robust and accurate decision-making processes. This research introduces a new end-to-end method that exploits multimodal information from a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Fouad Makiyeh , Mark Bastourous , Anass Bairouk , Wei Xiao , Mirjana Maras , Tsun-Hsuan Wangb , Marc Blanchon , Ramin Hasani , Patrick Chareyre , Daniela Rus

This paper serves as an introduction and overview of the potentially useful models and methodologies from artificial intelligence (AI) into the field of transportation engineering for autonomous vehicle (AV) control in the era of mixed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Xuan Di , Rongye Shi

LiDARs and cameras are the two main sensors that are planned to be included in many announced autonomous vehicles prototypes. Each of the two provides a unique form of data from a different perspective to the surrounding environment. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Amr S. Mohamed , Ali Abdelkader , Mohamed Anany , Omar El-Behady , Muhammad Faisal , Asser Hangal , Hesham M. Eraqi , Mohamed N. Moustafa

Image outpainting technology generates visually plausible content regardless of authenticity, making it unreliable to be applied in practice. Thus, we propose a reliable image outpainting task, introducing the sparse depth from LiDARs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Lei Zhang , Kang Liao , Chunyu Lin , Yao Zhao

Autonomous driving presents many challenges due to the large number of scenarios the autonomous vehicle (AV) may encounter. End-to-end deep learning models are comparatively simplistic models that can handle a broad set of scenarios.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zhongying CuiZhu , Francois Charette , Amin Ghafourian , Debo Shi , Matthew Cui , Anjali Krishnamachar , Iman Soltani

This report demonstrates several methods used to make a self-driving vehicle using a supervised learning algorithm and a forward-facing RGBD camera. The project originally involved research in creating an adversarial attack on the vehicle's…

Current deep learning based autonomous driving approaches yield impressive results also leading to in-production deployment in certain controlled scenarios. One of the most popular and fascinating approaches relies on learning vehicle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Luca Cultrera , Lorenzo Seidenari , Federico Becattini , Pietro Pala , Alberto Del Bimbo

Lidar-based sensing drives current autonomous vehicles. Despite rapid progress, current Lidar sensors still lag two decades behind traditional color cameras in terms of resolution and cost. For autonomous driving, this means that large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Tianwei Yin , Xingyi Zhou , Philipp Krähenbühl

End-to-end autonomous driving methods aim to directly map raw sensor inputs to future driving actions such as planned trajectories, bypassing traditional modular pipelines. While these approaches have shown promise, they often operate under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Bozhou Zhang , Nan Song , Jingyu Li , Xiatian Zhu , Jiankang Deng , Li Zhang

Imitation learning is employed to learn sensorimotor coordination for steering angle prediction in an end-to-end fashion requires expert demonstrations. These expert demonstrations are paired with environmental perception and vehicle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Farzeen Munir , Shoaib Azam , Byung-Geun Lee , Moongu Jeon

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with multiple complementary sensors have tremendous potential for fast autonomous or remote-controlled semantic scene analysis, e.g., for disaster examination. Here, we propose a UAV system for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Simon Bultmann , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke