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The goal of autonomous vehicles is to navigate public roads safely and comfortably. To enforce safety, traditional planning approaches rely on handcrafted rules to generate trajectories. Machine learning-based systems, on the other hand,…

Humans are going to delegate the rights of driving to the autonomous vehicles in near future. However, to fulfill this complicated task, there is a need for a mechanism, which enforces the autonomous vehicles to obey the road and social…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Faisal Riaz , Muaz A. Niazi

Accurate trajectory prediction has long been a major challenge for autonomous driving (AD). Traditional data-driven models predominantly rely on statistical correlations, often overlooking the causal relationships that govern traffic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Bonan Wang , Haicheng Liao , Chengyue Wang , Bin Rao , Yanchen Guan , Guyang Yu , Jiaxun Zhang , Songning Lai , Chengzhong Xu , Zhenning Li

Understanding traffic participants' behaviour is crucial for predicting their future trajectories, aiding in developing safe and reliable planning systems for autonomous vehicles. Integrating cognitive processes and machine learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Frederik S. B. Westerhout , Julian F. Schumann , Arkady Zgonnikov

Accurate vehicle trajectory prediction is essential for ensuring safety and efficiency in fully autonomous driving systems. While existing methods primarily focus on modeling observed motion patterns and interactions with other vehicles,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Xinyi Ning , Zilin Bian , Dachuan Zuo , Semiha Ergan

Behaviour prediction function of an autonomous vehicle predicts the future states of the nearby vehicles based on the current and past observations of the surrounding environment. This helps enhance their awareness of the imminent hazards.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Sajjad Mozaffari , Omar Y. Al-Jarrah , Mehrdad Dianati , Paul Jennings , Alexandros Mouzakitis

Predicting the motion of surrounding vehicles is essential for autonomous vehicles, as it governs their own motion plan. Current state-of-the-art vehicle prediction models heavily rely on map information. In reality, however, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Julian Schmidt , Julian Jordan , Franz Gritschneder , Klaus Dietmayer

Autonomous vehicles should be able to predict the future states of its environment and respond appropriately. Specifically, predicting the behavior of surrounding human drivers is vital for such platforms to share the same road with humans.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Mohamed Hasan , Albert Solernou , Evangelos Paschalidis , He Wang , Gustav Markkula , Richard Romano

Vehicle-to-vehicle communications can change the driving behavior of drivers significantly by providing them rich information on downstream traffic flow conditions. This study seeks to model the varying car-following behaviors involving…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Lin Liu , Chunyuan Li , Yongfu Li , Srinivas Peeta , Lei Lin

To plan a safe and efficient route, an autonomous vehicle should anticipate future trajectories of other agents around it. Trajectory prediction is an extremely challenging task which recently gained a lot of attention in the autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Apoorv Singh

With increasing automation in passenger vehicles, the study of safe and smooth occupant-vehicle interaction and control transitions is key. In this study, we focus on the development of contextual, semantically meaningful representations of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Akshay Rangesh , Nachiket Deo , Ross Greer , Pujitha Gunaratne , Mohan M. Trivedi

Theory of Mind (ToM) refers to the ability to reason about others' mental states, and higher-order ToM involves considering that others also possess their own ToM. Equipping large language model (LLM)-driven agents with ToM has long been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chunjiang Mu , Ya Zeng , Qiaosheng Zhang , Kun Shao , Chen Chu , Hao Guo , Danyang Jia , Zhen Wang , Shuyue Hu

Theory of Mind (ToM) -- the ability to understand that others can have differing knowledge and goals -- enables agents to reason about others' beliefs while planning their own actions. We present a novel approach to multi-agent cooperation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Riddhi J. Pitliya , Ozan Çatal , Toon Van de Maele , Corrado Pezzato , Tim Verbelen

The ability to accurately predict the trajectory of surrounding vehicles is a critical hurdle to overcome on the journey to fully autonomous vehicles. To address this challenge, we pioneer a novel behavior-aware trajectory prediction model…

Trajectory prediction aims to forecast agents' possible future locations considering their observations along with the video context. It is strongly needed by many autonomous platforms like tracking, detection, robot navigation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Conghao Wong , Beihao Xia , Qinmu Peng , Wei Yuan , Xinge You

Social intelligence manifests the capability, often referred to as the Theory of Mind (ToM), to discern others' behavioral intentions, beliefs, and other mental states. ToM is especially important in multi-agent and human-machine…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Zhuoya Zhao , Feifei Zhao , Shiwen Wang , Yinqian Sun , Yi Zeng

In commentary driving, drivers verbalise their observations, assessments and intentions. By speaking out their thoughts, both learning and expert drivers are able to create a better understanding and awareness of their surroundings. In the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Daniel Omeiza , Sule Anjomshoae , Helena Webb , Marina Jirotka , Lars Kunze

There is evidence that the driving style of an autonomous vehicle is important to increase the acceptance and trust of the passengers. The driving situation has been found to have a significant influence on human driving behavior. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-27 Johann Haselberger , Bonifaz Stuhr , Bernhard Schick , Steffen Müller

Personalization of autonomous vehicles (AV) may significantly increase trust, use, and acceptance. In particular, we hypothesize that the similarity of an AV's driving style compared to the end-user's driving style will have a major impact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Mariah L. Schrum , Emily Sumner , Matthew C. Gombolay , Andrew Best

This paper presents a novel integrated approach to deal with the decision making and motion planning for lane-change maneuvers of autonomous vehicle (AV) considering social behaviors of surrounding traffic occupants. Reflected by driving…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-25 Peng Hang , Chen Lv , Chao Huang , Jiacheng Cai , Zhongxu Hu , Yang Xing