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A significant barrier to deploying autonomous vehicles (AVs) on a massive scale is safety assurance. Several technical challenges arise due to the uncertain environment in which AVs operate such as road and weather conditions, errors in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Majid Khonji , Jorge Dias , Lakmal Seneviratne

Accurately modeling pedestrian intention and understanding driver decision-making processes are critical for the development of safe and socially aware autonomous driving systems. We introduce PSI, a benchmark dataset that captures the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Taotao Jing , Tina Chen , Renran Tian , Yaobin Chen , Joshua Domeyer , Heishiro Toyoda , Rini Sherony , Zhengming Ding

Autonomous driving depends on perception systems to understand the environment and to inform downstream decision-making. While advanced perception systems utilizing black-box Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) demonstrate human-like comprehension,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Xiao Li , H. Eric Tseng , Anouck Girard , Ilya Kolmanovsky

Autonomous driving decision-making is a challenging task due to the inherent complexity and uncertainty in traffic. For example, adjacent vehicles may change their lane or overtake at any time to pass a slow vehicle or to help traffic flow.…

Understanding and adhering to traffic regulations is essential for autonomous vehicles to ensure safety and trustworthiness. However, traffic regulations are complex, context-dependent, and differ between regions, posing a major challenge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Tianhui Cai , Yifan Liu , Zewei Zhou , Haoxuan Ma , Seth Z. Zhao , Zhiwen Wu , Xu Han , Zhiyu Huang , Jiaqi Ma

Deep learning and computer vision techniques have become increasingly important in the development of self-driving cars. These techniques play a crucial role in enabling self-driving cars to perceive and understand their surroundings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Kanishkha Jaisankar , Pranav M. Pawar , Diana Susane Joseph , Raja Muthalagu , Mithun Mukherjee

This paper explores the emerging knowledge-driven autonomous driving technologies. Our investigation highlights the limitations of current autonomous driving systems, in particular their sensitivity to data bias, difficulty in handling…

Existing Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) independently make driving decisions, but they face two significant limitations. First, in complex scenarios, ADS may misinterpret the environment and make inappropriate driving decisions. Second,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Ziwei Song , Mingsong Lv , Tianchi Ren , Chun Jason Xue , Jen-Ming Wu , Nan Guan

Autonomous agents that drive on roads shared with human drivers must reason about the nuanced interactions among traffic participants. This poses a highly challenging decision making problem since human behavior is influenced by a multitude…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Salar Arbabi , Davide Tavernini , Saber Fallah , Richard Bowden

High-level reasoning can be defined as the capability to generalize over knowledge acquired via experience, and to exhibit robust behavior in novel situations. Such form of reasoning is a basic skill in humans, who seamlessly use it in a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Alessandro Oltramari

In autonomous driving, perception systems are piv otal as they interpret sensory data to understand the envi ronment, which is essential for decision-making and planning. Ensuring the safety of these perception systems is fundamental for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Urvishkumar Bharti , Vikram Shahapur

Autonomous driving has achieved significant milestones in research and development over the last two decades. There is increasing interest in the field as the deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs) promises safer and more ecologically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Shahin Atakishiyev , Mohammad Salameh , Hengshuai Yao , Randy Goebel

Autonomous driving systems have made significant advances in Q&A, perception, prediction, and planning based on local visual information, yet they struggle to incorporate broader navigational context that human drivers routinely utilize. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Qucheng Peng , Chen Bai , Guoxiang Zhang , Bo Xu , Xiaotong Liu , Xiaoyin Zheng , Chen Chen , Cheng Lu

Autonomous vehicles have a great potential in the application of both civil and military fields, and have become the focus of research with the rapid development of science and economy. This article proposes a brief review on learning-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Qi Liu , Xueyuan Li , Shihua Yuan , Zirui Li

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,…

Intention prediction is a crucial task for Autonomous Driving (AD). Due to the variety of size and layout of intersections, it is challenging to predict intention of human driver at different intersections, especially unseen and irregular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Fei Li , Xiangxu Li , Jun Luo , Shiwei Fan , Hongbo Zhang

An approach based on answer set programming (ASP) is proposed in this paper for representing knowledge generated from natural language texts. Knowledge in a text is modeled using a Neo Davidsonian-like formalism, which is then represented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Dhruva Pendharkar , Kinjal Basu , Farhad Shakerin , Gopal Gupta

Traditional AI reasoning techniques have been used successfully in many domains, including logistics, scheduling and game playing. This paper is part of a project aimed at investigating how such techniques can be extended to coordinate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-07 Marcello Balduccini , William C. Regli , Duc N. Nguyen

It is expected that many human drivers will still prefer to drive themselves even if the self-driving technologies are ready. Therefore, human-driven vehicles and autonomous vehicles (AVs) will coexist in a mixed traffic for a long time. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Dong Chen , Longsheng Jiang , Yue Wang , Zhaojian Li

In modern life the road safety has becomes the core issue. One single move of a driver can cause horrifying accident. The main goal of intelligent car system is to make communication with other cars on the road. The system is able to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-02-28 Qasim Siddique