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Widespread adoption of self-driving cars will depend not only on their safety but largely on their ability to interact with human users. Just like human drivers, self-driving cars will be expected to understand and safely follow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Junha Roh , Chris Paxton , Andrzej Pronobis , Ali Farhadi , Dieter Fox

This paper presents a deep learning approach to aid dead-reckoning (DR) navigation using a limited sensor suite. A Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) was developed to predict the relative horizontal velocities of an Autonomous Underwater…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Ivar Bjørgo Saksvik , Alex Alcocer , Vahid Hassani

Referring image segmentation aims to produce a pixel-level mask for the image region described by a natural-language expression. Although pretrained vision-language models have improved semantic grounding, many existing methods still rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Alaa Dalaq , Muzammil Behzad

We propose in this article to build up a collaboration between a deep neural network and a human in the loop to swiftly obtain accurate segmentation maps of remote sensing images. In a nutshell, the agent iteratively interacts with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Gaston Lenczner , Adrien Chan-Hon-Tong , Bertrand Le Saux , Nicola Luminari , Guy Le Besnerais

Models designed for intelligent process automation are required to be capable of grounding user interface elements. This task of interface element grounding is centred on linking instructions in natural language to their target referents.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Julia Rozanova , Deborah Ferreira , Krishna Dubba , Weiwei Cheng , Dell Zhang , Andre Freitas

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is the task to enable an embodied agent to navigate to a remote location following the natural language instruction in real scenes. Most of the previous approaches utilize the entire features or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Xiangyang Li , Zihan Wang , Jiahao Yang , Yaowei Wang , Shuqiang Jiang

In this paper, we explore the utilization of natural language to drive transfer for reinforcement learning (RL). Despite the wide-spread application of deep RL techniques, learning generalized policy representations that work across domains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Karthik Narasimhan , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

End-to-end autonomous driving has emerged as a promising approach to unify perception, prediction, and planning within a single framework, reducing information loss and improving adaptability. However, existing methods often rely on fixed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yuhang Lu , Jiadong Tu , Yuexin Ma , Xinge Zhu

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) provides a promising way for intelligent agents (e.g., autonomous vehicles) to learn to navigate complex scenarios. However, DRL with neural networks as function approximators is typically considered a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Jiachen Li , David Isele , Kanghoon Lee , Jinkyoo Park , Kikuo Fujimura , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Grounding free-form textual queries necessitates an understanding of these textual phrases and its relation to the visual cues to reliably reason about the described locations. Spatial attention networks are known to learn this relationship…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Amar Shrestha , Krittaphat Pugdeethosapol , Haowen Fang , Qinru Qiu

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

When a human drives a car along a road for the first time, they later recognize where they are on the return journey typically without needing to look in their rear-view mirror or turn around to look back, despite significant viewpoint and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Sourav Garg , Niko Suenderhauf , Michael Milford

The key to successful grounding for video surveillance is to understand a semantic phrase corresponding to important actors and objects. Conventional methods ignore comprehensive contexts for the phrase or require heavy computation for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Sunoh Kim , Kimin Yun , Jin Young Choi

In the context of visual navigation, the capacity to map a novel environment is necessary for an agent to exploit its observation history in the considered place and efficiently reach known goals. This ability can be associated with spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Pierre Marza , Laetitia Matignon , Olivier Simonin , Christian Wolf

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

Recent work has described neural-network-based agents that are trained with reinforcement learning (RL) to execute language-like commands in simulated worlds, as a step towards an intelligent agent or robot that can be instructed by human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Felix Hill , Sona Mokra , Nathaniel Wong , Tim Harley

Autonomous driving is a challenging problem where there is currently an intense focus on research and development. Human drivers are forced to make thousands of complex decisions in a short amount of time,quickly processing their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Niral Shah , Ashwin Shankar , Jae-hong Park

Many autonomous robotic applications require object-level understanding when deployed. Actively reconstructing objects of interest, i.e. objects with specific semantic meanings, is therefore relevant for a robot to perform downstream tasks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Liren Jin , Haofei Kuang , Yue Pan , Cyrill Stachniss , Marija Popović

Volumetric Reasoning Segmentation (VRS) aims to segment a target region in a 3D medical scan from a free-form clinical query, where the referent is often implicit and requires both medical knowledge and volume-grounded reasoning. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zichun Wang , Hairong Shi , Bingzheng Wei , Yan Xu , Zihua Wang

Structured road understanding of lane geometry, topology, and traffic element relationships is foundational to safe autonomous driving. While vision-language models (VLMs) offer promising semantic flexibility, they lack the geometric and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Lena Wild , Katie Z Luo , Marco Pavone