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Smart cities are revolutionizing the transportation infrastructure by the integration of technology. However, ensuring that various transportation system components are operating as expected and in a safe manner is a great challenge. In…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Mariam Nour , Mohamed H. Zaki

Experimental studies on vehicular traffic provide data on quantities like density, flux, and mean speed of the vehicles. However, the diagrams relating these variables (the fundamental and speed diagrams) show some peculiarities not yet…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-01 Gabriella Puppo , Matteo Semplice , Andrea Tosin , Giuseppe Visconti

Embodiment is an important characteristic for all intelligent agents (creatures and robots), while existing scene description tasks mainly focus on analyzing images passively and the semantic understanding of the scenario is separated from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Sinan Tan , Huaping Liu , Di Guo , Xinyu Zhang , Fuchun Sun

We propose an efficient and interpretable scene graph generator. We consider three types of features: visual, spatial and semantic, and we use a late fusion strategy such that each feature's contribution can be explicitly investigated. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Ji Zhang , Kevin Shih , Andrew Tao , Bryan Catanzaro , Ahmed Elgammal

Predicting traffic conditions has been recently explored as a way to relieve traffic congestion. Several pioneering approaches have been proposed based on traffic observations of the target location as well as its adjacent regions, but they…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Xingyi Cheng , Ruiqing Zhang , Jie Zhou , Wei Xu

Comprehensive scene understanding is a critical enabler of robot autonomy. Semantic segmentation is one of the key scene understanding tasks which is pivotal for several robotics applications including autonomous driving, domestic service…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Juana Valeria Hurtado , Abhinav Valada

We present Scene-Graph Based Multi-Modal Traffic Agent (SGTA), a modular framework for traffic video understanding that combines structured scene graphs with multi-modal reasoning. It constructs a traffic scene graph from roadside videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xingcheng Zhou , Mingyu Liu , Walter Zimmer , Jiajie Zhang , Alois Knoll

Automated Driving Functions (ADFs) need to comply with spatial properties of varied complexity while driving on public roads. Since such situations are safety-critical in nature, it is necessary to continuously check ADFs for compliance…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Ishan Saxena , Bernd Westphal , Martin Fränzle

Modeling stochastic traffic dynamics is critical to developing self-driving cars. Because it is difficult to develop first principle models of cars driven by humans, there is great potential for using data driven approaches in developing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Ke Sun , Stephen Chaves , Paul Martin , Vijay Kumar

We study several deterministic one-dimensional traffic models. For integer positions and velocities we find the typical high and low density phases separated by a simple transition. If positions and velocities are continuous variables the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Kai Nagel , Hans J. Herrmann

If we consider information as the basis of action, it may be of interest to examine the flow and acquisition of information between the actors in traffic. The central question is, which signals an automaton has to receive, decode or send in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-03 Hans Nikolaus Beck , Nayel Fabian Salem , Veronica Haber , Matthias Rauschenbach , Jan Reich

Recent progress in advanced driver assistance systems and the race towards autonomous vehicles is mainly driven by two factors: (1) increasingly sophisticated algorithms that interpret the environment around the vehicle and react…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Marius Cordts , Timo Rehfeld , Lukas Schneider , David Pfeiffer , Markus Enzweiler , Stefan Roth , Marc Pollefeys , Uwe Franke

Context plays a significant role in the generation of motion for dynamic agents in interactive environments. This work proposes a modular method that utilises a learned model of the environment for motion prediction. This modularity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Todor Davchev , Michael Burke , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

We compare the point-wise and segment-wise descriptions of the traffic system. Using real data from the Taiwan highway system with a tremendous volume of segment-wise data, we find that the segment-wise description is much more informative…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-07 T. S. Choi , Kiwing To , K. Y. Michael Wong

Recent genomic and bioinformatic advances have motivated the development of numerous random network models purporting to describe graphs of biological, technological, and sociological origin. The success of a model has been evaluated by how…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Manuel Middendorf , Etay Ziv , Carter Adams , Jen Hom , Robin Koytcheff , Chaya Levovitz , Gregory Woods , Linda Chen , Chris Wiggins

Evaluating and training autonomous driving systems require diverse and scalable corner cases. However, most existing scene generation methods lack controllability, accuracy, and versatility, resulting in unsatisfactory generation results.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Sheng Wang , Ge Sun , Fulong Ma , Tianshuai Hu , Qiang Qin , Yongkang Song , Lei Zhu , Junwei Liang

Social learning algorithms provide models for the formation of opinions over social networks resulting from local reasoning and peer-to-peer exchanges. Interactions occur over an underlying graph topology, which describes the flow of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-15 Valentina Shumovskaia , Konstantinos Ntemos , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

A scene graph is a semantic representation that expresses the objects, attributes, and relationships between objects in a scene. Scene graphs play an important role in many cross modality tasks, as they are able to capture the interactions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Xuming Hu , Zhijiang Guo , Yu Fu , Lijie Wen , Philip S. Yu

The purpose of this paper is to study the properties of kinetic models for traffic flow described by a Boltzmann-type approach and based on a continuous space of microscopic velocities. In our models, the particular structure of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Gabriella Puppo , Matteo Semplice , Andrea Tosin , Giuseppe Visconti

Traffic prediction is a fundamental and vital task in Intelligence Transportation System (ITS), but it is very challenging to get high accuracy while containing low computational complexity due to the spatiotemporal characteristics of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Xiaoyu Wang , Cailian Chen , Yang Min , Jianping He , Bo Yang , Yang Zhang