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Efficient trajectory planning for urban intersections is currently one of the most challenging tasks for an Autonomous Vehicle (AV). Courteous behavior towards other traffic participants, the AV's comfort and its progression in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Oliver Speidel , Maximilian Graf , Ankit Kaushik , Thanh Phan-Huu , Andreas Wedel , Klaus Dietmayer

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) have emerged as a promising solution by replacing human drivers with advanced computer-aided decision-making systems. However, for AVs to effectively navigate the road, they must possess the capability to predict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Vibha Bharilya , Neetesh Kumar

Recent transportation research highlights the potential of autonomous vehicles (AV) to improve traffic flow mobility as they are able to maintain smaller car-following distances. However, as a unique class of ground robots, AVs are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Hangyu Li , Xiaotong Sun , Chenglin Zhuang , Xiaopeng Li

To ensure their safe use, autonomous vehicles (AVs) must meet rigorous certification criteria that involve executing maneuvers safely within (arbitrary) scenarios where other actors perform their intended maneuvers. For that purpose,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Aren A. Babikian , Attila Ficsor , Oszkár Semeráth , Gunter Mussbacher , Dániel Varró

This paper addresses the problem of path prediction for multiple interacting agents in a scene, which is a crucial step for many autonomous platforms such as self-driving cars and social robots. We present \textit{SoPhie}; an interpretable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Amir Sadeghian , Vineet Kosaraju , Ali Sadeghian , Noriaki Hirose , S. Hamid Rezatofighi , Silvio Savarese

Lane graph estimation is a long-standing problem in the context of autonomous driving. Previous works aimed at solving this problem by relying on large-scale, hand-annotated lane graphs, introducing a data bottleneck for training models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Jannik Zürn , Ingmar Posner , Wolfram Burgard

Motion forecasting for agents in autonomous driving is highly challenging due to the numerous possibilities for each agent's next action and their complex interactions in space and time. In real applications, motion forecasting takes place…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nan Song , Bozhou Zhang , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang

Motion prediction for automated vehicles in complex environments is a difficult task that is to be mastered when automated vehicles are to be used in arbitrary situations. Many factors influence the future motion of traffic participants…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Daniel Grimm , Philip Schörner , Moritz Dreßler , J. -Marius Zöllner

Background Road collisions and casualties pose a serious threat to commuters around the globe. Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) aim to make the use of technology to reduce the road accidents. However, the most of research work in the context of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Faisal Riaz , Muaz A. Niazi

The actions of an autonomous vehicle on the road affect and are affected by those of other drivers, whether overtaking, negotiating a merge, or avoiding an accident. This mutual dependence, best captured by dynamic game theory, creates a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Jaime F. Fisac , Eli Bronstein , Elis Stefansson , Dorsa Sadigh , S. Shankar Sastry , Anca D. Dragan

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have the potential to prevent accidents caused by drivers errors and reduce road traffic risks. Due to the nature of heavy vehicles, whose collisions cause more serious crashes, the weights of vehicles need to be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Di Chen , Hao Li , Zhicheng Jin , Huizhao Tu , Meixin Zhu

Lane change for autonomous vehicles (AVs) is an important but challenging task in complex dynamic traffic environments. Due to difficulties in guarantee safety as well as a high efficiency, AVs are inclined to choose relatively conservative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Zihao Sheng , Lin Liu , Shibei Xue , Dezong Zhao , Min Jiang , Dewei Li

In the burgeoning field of autonomous vehicles (AVs), trajectory prediction remains a formidable challenge, especially in mixed autonomy environments. Traditional approaches often rely on computational methods such as time-series analysis.…

We present a new algorithm for predicting the near-term trajectories of road-agents in dense traffic videos. Our approach is designed for heterogeneous traffic, where the road-agents may correspond to buses, cars, scooters, bicycles, or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Rohan Chandra , Uttaran Bhattacharya , Aniket Bera , Dinesh Manocha

In highway scenarios, an alert human driver will typically anticipate early cut-in/cut-out maneuvers of surrounding vehicles using visual cues mainly. Autonomous vehicles must anticipate these situations at an early stage too, to increase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Mahdi Biparva , David Fernández-Llorca , Rubén Izquierdo-Gonzalo , John K. Tsotsos

Accurate motion prediction of surrounding agents is crucial for the safe planning of autonomous vehicles. Recent advancements have extended prediction techniques from individual agents to joint predictions of multiple interacting agents,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Xing Gao , Zherui Huang , Weiyao Lin , Xiao Sun

For a foreseeable future, autonomous vehicles (AVs) will operate in traffic together with human-driven vehicles. Their planning and control systems need extensive testing, including early-stage testing in simulations where the interactions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Ran Tian , Nan Li , Ilya Kolmanovsky , Yildiray Yildiz , Anouck Girard

In order to drive safely on the road, autonomous vehicle is expected to predict future outcomes of its surrounding environment and react properly. In fact, many researchers have been focused on solving behavioral prediction problems for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Weihao Xuan , Ruijie Ren

For autonomous vehicles (AVs) to behave appropriately on roads populated by human-driven vehicles, they must be able to reason about the uncertain intentions and decisions of other drivers from rich perceptual information. Towards these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Nicholas Rhinehart , Rowan McAllister , Kris Kitani , Sergey Levine

The multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) problem seeks collision-free paths for a team of agents from their current positions to their pre-set goals in a known environment, and is an essential problem found at the core of many logistics,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Chengyang He , Tianze Yang , Tanishq Duhan , Yutong Wang , Guillaume Sartoretti