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Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) in intelligent vehicles rely on accurate driver perception within the vehicle cabin, often leveraging a combination of sensing modalities. However, these modalities operate at varying rates, posing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Mathias Viborg Andersen , Ross Greer , Andreas Møgelmose , Mohan Trivedi

High-definition (HD) maps are essential for autonomous driving, providing precise information such as road boundaries, lane dividers, and crosswalks to enable safe and accurate navigation. However, traditional HD map generation is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Zihan Zhang , Abhijit Ravichandran , Pragnya Korti , Luobin Wang , Henrik I. Christensen

Autonomous driving has seen remarkable advancements, largely driven by extensive real-world data collection. However, acquiring diverse and corner-case data remains costly and inefficient. Generative models have emerged as a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Tao Tang , Enhui Ma , xia zhou , Letian Wang , Tianyi Yan , Xueyang Zhang , Kun Zhan , Peng Jia , XianPeng Lang , Jia-Wang Bian , Kaicheng Yu , Xiaodan Liang

Photorealistic 3D vehicle models with high controllability are essential for autonomous driving simulation and data augmentation. While handcrafted CAD models provide flexible controllability, free CAD libraries often lack the high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yichong Lu , Yichi Cai , Shangzhan Zhang , Hongyu Zhou , Haoji Hu , Huimin Yu , Andreas Geiger , Yiyi Liao

Accurate camera-to-lidar calibration is a requirement for sensor data fusion in many 3D perception tasks. In this paper, we present SceneCalib, a novel method for simultaneous self-calibration of extrinsic and intrinsic parameters in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Ayon Sen , Gang Pan , Anton Mitrokhin , Ashraful Islam

Autonomous driving significantly benefits from data-driven deep neural networks. However, the data in autonomous driving typically fits the long-tailed distribution, in which the critical driving data in adverse conditions is hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Gongjin Lan , Yang Peng , Qi Hao , Chengzhong Xu

Rigorously testing autonomy systems is essential for making safe self-driving vehicles (SDV) a reality. It requires one to generate safety critical scenarios beyond what can be collected safely in the world, as many scenarios happen rarely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Ze Yang , Yun Chen , Jingkang Wang , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Wei-Chiu Ma , Anqi Joyce Yang , Raquel Urtasun

Microscopic traffic simulation has become an important tool for autonomous driving training and testing. Although recent data-driven approaches advance realistic behavior generation, their learning still relies primarily on a single…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Shenyu Zhang , Jiaguo Tian , Zhengbang Zhu , Shan Huang , Jucheng Yang , Weinan Zhang

Maps have played an indispensable role in enabling safe and automated driving. Although there have been many advances on different fronts ranging from SLAM to semantics, building an actionable hierarchical semantic representation of urban…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Elias Greve , Martin Büchner , Niclas Vödisch , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

Simulators are indispensable for research in autonomous systems such as self-driving cars, autonomous robots, and drones. Despite significant progress in various simulation aspects, such as graphical realism, an evident gap persists between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Stefanos Pasios , Nikos Nikolaidis

Neural reconstruction models for autonomous driving simulation have made significant strides in recent years, with dynamic models becoming increasingly prevalent. However, these models are typically limited to handling in-domain objects…

The rapid advancement of autonomous driving (AD) technologies has outpaced the development of robust safety evaluation methods. Conventional testing relies on exposing AD systems to vast numbers of real-world traffic scenes -- a brute-force…

Recent work has focused on generating synthetic imagery to increase the size and variability of training data for learning visual tasks in urban scenes. This includes increasing the occurrence of occlusions or varying environmental and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Alexandra Carlson , Katherine A. Skinner , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

With deep learning and computer vision technology development, autonomous driving provides new solutions to improve traffic safety and efficiency. The importance of building high-quality datasets is self-evident, especially with the rise of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Guohang Yan , Jiahao Pi , Jianfei Guo , Zhaotong Luo , Min Dou , Nianchen Deng , Qiusheng Huang , Daocheng Fu , Licheng Wen , Pinlong Cai , Xing Gao , Xinyu Cai , Bo Zhang , Xuemeng Yang , Yeqi Bai , Hongbin Zhou , Botian Shi

In this paper, we propose a novel dense surfel mapping system that scales well in different environments with only CPU computation. Using a sparse SLAM system to estimate camera poses, the proposed mapping system can fuse intensity images…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Kaixuan Wang , Fei Gao , Shaojie Shen

Designing diverse and safety-critical driving scenarios is essential for evaluating autonomous driving systems. In this paper, we propose a novel framework that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) for few-shot code generation to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yongjie Fu , Ruijian Zha , Pei Tian , Xuan Di

3D LiDAR scanners are playing an increasingly important role in autonomous driving as they can generate depth information of the environment. However, creating large 3D LiDAR point cloud datasets with point-level labels requires a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Xiangyu Yue , Bichen Wu , Sanjit A. Seshia , Kurt Keutzer , Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

We present RadarGen, a diffusion model for synthesizing realistic automotive radar point clouds from multi-view camera imagery. RadarGen adapts efficient image-latent diffusion to the radar domain by representing radar measurements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Tomer Borreda , Fangqiang Ding , Sanja Fidler , Shengyu Huang , Or Litany

Safety-critical traffic simulation plays a crucial role in evaluating autonomous driving systems under rare and challenging scenarios. However, existing approaches often generate unrealistic scenarios due to insufficient consideration of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Mingxing Peng , Ruoyu Yao , Xusen Guo , Yuting Xie , Xianda Chen , Jun Ma

Sensor fusion is critical to perception systems for task domains such as autonomous driving and robotics. Recently, the Transformer integrated with CNN has demonstrated high performance in sensor fusion for various perception tasks. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Quoc-Vinh Lai-Dang , Jihui Lee , Bumgeun Park , Dongsoo Har