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Safety-critical scenarios are essential for training and evaluating autonomous driving (AD) systems, yet remain extremely rare in real-world driving datasets. To address this, we propose Real-world Crash Grounding (RCG), a scenario…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Benjamin Stoler , Juliet Yang , Jonathan Francis , Jean Oh

Autonomous driving is undergoing a shift from modular rule based pipelines toward end to end (E2E) learning systems. This paper examines this transition by tracing the evolution from classical sense perceive plan control architectures to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Eduardo Nebot , Julie Stephany Berrio Perez

Controllable generative models for images and videos have seen significant success, yet 3D scene generation, especially in unbounded scenarios like autonomous driving, remains underdeveloped. Existing methods lack flexible controllability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Ruiyuan Gao , Kai Chen , Zhihao Li , Lanqing Hong , Zhenguo Li , Qiang Xu

All-day and all-weather navigation is a critical capability for autonomous driving, which requires proper reaction to varied environmental conditions and complex agent behaviors. Recently, with the rise of deep learning, end-to-end control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Peide Cai , Sukai Wang , Yuxiang Sun , Ming Liu

End-to-End autonomous driving (E2E-AD) has emerged as a new paradigm, where trajectory planning plays a crucial role. Existing studies mainly follow two directions: trajectory generation oriented, which focuses on producing high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Bin Sun , Yaoguang Cao , Yan Wang , Rui Wang , Jiachen Shang , Xiejie Feng , Jiayi Lu , Jia Shi , Shichun Yang , Xiaoyu Yan , Ziying Song

The decision and planning system for autonomous driving in urban environments is hard to design. Most current methods manually design the driving policy, which can be expensive to develop and maintain at scale. Instead, with imitation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Jianyu Chen , Bodi Yuan , Masayoshi Tomizuka

End-to-end autonomous driving has witnessed rapid progress, yet existing benchmarks are increasingly saturated, with state-of-the-art models achieving near-perfect scores on widely used open-loop and closed-loop benchmarks. This saturation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhongyu Xia , Guanyu Zhu , Guo Tang , Wenhao Chen , Yongtao Wang

Generating safety-critical scenarios is essential for testing and verifying the safety of autonomous vehicles. Traditional optimization techniques suffer from the curse of dimensionality and limit the search space to fixed parameter spaces.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Haolan Liu , Liangjun Zhang , Siva Kumar Sastry Hari , Jishen Zhao

The ability to accurately predict and simulate human driving behavior is critical for the development of intelligent transportation systems. Traditional modeling methods have employed simple parametric models and behavioral cloning. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Alex Kuefler , Jeremy Morton , Tim Wheeler , Mykel Kochenderfer

Training self-driving cars is often challenging since they require a vast amount of labeled data in multiple real-world contexts, which is computationally and memory intensive. Researchers often resort to driving simulators to train the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Avinash Amballa , Advaith P. , Pradip Sasmal , Sumohana Channappayya

This study aims to improve the performance and generalization capability of end-to-end autonomous driving with scene understanding leveraging deep learning and multimodal sensor fusion techniques. The designed end-to-end deep neural network…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Zhiyu Huang , Chen Lv , Yang Xing , Jingda Wu

Data-driven simulation has become a favorable way to train and test autonomous driving algorithms. The idea of replacing the actual environment with a learned simulator has also been explored in model-based reinforcement learning in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Zhejun Zhang , Alexander Liniger , Dengxin Dai , Fisher Yu , Luc Van Gool

Traffic simulators are important tools in autonomous driving development. While continuous progress has been made to provide developers more options for modeling various traffic participants, tuning these models to increase their behavioral…

Using generative models to synthesize new data has become a de-facto standard in autonomous driving to address the data scarcity issue. Though existing approaches are able to boost perception models, we discover that these approaches fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Enhui Ma , Lijun Zhou , Tao Tang , Zhan Zhang , Dong Han , Junpeng Jiang , Kun Zhan , Peng Jia , Xianpeng Lang , Haiyang Sun , Di Lin , Kaicheng Yu

Recent successful video generation systems that predict and create realistic automotive driving scenes from short video inputs assign tokenization, future state prediction (world model), and video decoding to dedicated models. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Björn Möller , Zhengyang Li , Malte Stelzer , Thomas Graave , Fabian Bettels , Muaaz Ataya , Tim Fingscheidt

Diffusion models have made substantial progress in facilitating image generation and editing. As the technology matures, we see its potential in the context of driving simulations to enhance the simulated experience. In this paper, we…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Fanjun Bu , Hiroshi Yasuda

End-to-end planning methods are the de facto standard of the current autonomous driving system, while the robustness of the data-driven approaches suffers due to the notorious long-tail problem (i.e., rare but safety-critical failure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Enhui Ma , Lijun Zhou , Tao Tang , Jiahuan Zhang , Junpeng Jiang , Zhan Zhang , Dong Han , Kun Zhan , Xueyang Zhang , XianPeng Lang , Haiyang Sun , Xia Zhou , Di Lin , Kaicheng Yu

Realistic and controllable simulation is critical for advancing end-to-end autonomous driving, yet existing approaches often struggle to support novel view synthesis under large viewpoint changes or to ensure geometric consistency. We…

Autonomous driving promises transformative improvements to transportation, but building systems capable of safely navigating the unstructured complexity of real-world scenarios remains challenging. A critical problem lies in effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Anthony Hu , Lloyd Russell , Hudson Yeo , Zak Murez , George Fedoseev , Alex Kendall , Jamie Shotton , Gianluca Corrado

The self-driving based on deep reinforcement learning, as the most important application of artificial intelligence, has become a popular topic. Most of the current self-driving methods focus on how to directly learn end-to-end self-driving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Qi Zhang , Tao Du , Changzheng Tian