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Safety-critical traffic simulation plays a crucial role in evaluating autonomous driving systems under rare and challenging scenarios. However, existing approaches often generate unrealistic scenarios due to insufficient consideration of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Mingxing Peng , Ruoyu Yao , Xusen Guo , Yuting Xie , Xianda Chen , Jun Ma

Representing relevant information of a traffic scene and understanding its environment is crucial for the success of autonomous driving. Modeling the surrounding of an autonomous car using semantic relations, i.e., how different traffic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Maximilian Zipfl , Felix Hertlein , Achim Rettinger , Steffen Thoma , Lavdim Halilaj , Juergen Luettin , Stefan Schmid , Cory Henson

In this work, we tackle two vital tasks in automated driving systems, i.e., driver intent prediction and risk object identification from egocentric images. Mainly, we investigate the question: what would be good road scene-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Zihao Xiao , Alan Yuille , Yi-Ting Chen

Autonomous vehicles hold great promise in improving the future of transportation. The driving models used in these vehicles are based on neural networks, which can be difficult to validate. However, ensuring the safety of these models is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Maximilian Zipfl , Sven Spickermann , J. Marius Zöllner

Safety-critical scenarios are essential for the development of autonomous vehicles (AVs) but are rare in real-world driving data. While simulation offers a way to generate such scenarios, manually designed test cases lack scalability, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Zimu Gong , Brian Zhaoning Zhang , Chris Zhang , Kelvin Wong , Raquel Urtasun

Safe path planning in autonomous driving is a complex task due to the interplay of static scene elements and uncertain surrounding agents. While all static scene elements are a source of information, there is asymmetric importance to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Ross Greer , Jason Isa , Nachiket Deo , Akshay Rangesh , Mohan M. Trivedi

Deep learning models obtain impressive accuracy in road scenes understanding, however they need a large quantity of labeled samples for their training. Additionally, such models do not generalise well to environments where the statistical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Francesco Barbato , Umberto Michieli , Marco Toldo , Pietro Zanuttigh

Formal representations of traffic scenarios can be used to generate test cases for the safety verification of autonomous driving. However, most existing methods are limited to highway or highly simplified intersection scenarios due to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Ruolin Wang , Yuejiao Xu , Jianmin Ji

Real-time traffic prediction from high-fidelity spatiotemporal traffic sensor datasets is an important problem for intelligent transportation systems and sustainability. However, it is challenging due to the complex topological dependencies…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Dingxiong Deng , Cyrus Shahabi , Ugur Demiryurek , Linhong Zhu , Rose Yu , Yan Liu

Maintaining situational awareness in complex driving scenarios is challenging. It requires continuously prioritizing attention among extensive scene entities and understanding how prominent hazards might affect the ego vehicle. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yaoqi Huang , Julie Stephany Berrio , Mao Shan , Stewart Worrall

The rise of vehicle automation has generated significant interest in the potential role of future automated vehicles (AVs). In particular, in highly dense traffic settings, AVs are expected to serve as congestion-dampeners, mitigating the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Abdul Rahman Kreidieh , Zhe Fu , Alexandre M. Bayen

Rare, yet critical, scenarios pose a significant challenge in testing and evaluating autonomous driving planners. Relying solely on real-world driving scenes requires collecting massive datasets to capture these scenarios. While automatic…

Already today, driver assistance systems help to make daily traffic more comfortable and safer. However, there are still situations that are quite rare but are hard to handle at the same time. In order to cope with these situations and to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Florian Wirthmüller , Marvin Klimke , Julian Schlechtriemen , Jochen Hipp , Manfred Reichert

Accurately forecasting the future movements of surrounding vehicles is essential for safe and efficient operations of autonomous driving cars. This task is difficult because a vehicle's moving trajectory is greatly determined by its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Jiacheng Pan , Hongyi Sun , Kecheng Xu , Yifei Jiang , Xiangquan Xiao , Jiangtao Hu , Jinghao Miao

The vision of automated driving is to increase both road safety and efficiency, while offering passengers a convenient travel experience. This requires that autonomous systems correctly estimate the current traffic scene and its likely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-26 David Augustin , Marius Hofmann , Ulrich Konigorski

Autonomous vehicles require knowledge of the surrounding road layout, which can be predicted by state-of-the-art CNNs. This work addresses the current lack of data for determining lane instances, which are needed for various driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Brook Roberts , Sebastian Kaltwang , Sina Samangooei , Mark Pender-Bare , Konstantinos Tertikas , John Redford

Validating the safety of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) operating in open-ended, dynamic environments is challenging as vehicles will eventually encounter safety-critical situations for which there is not representative training data. By…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Enrik Maci , Rhys Howard , Lars Kunze

Embodied scene understanding serves as the cornerstone for autonomous agents to perceive, interpret, and respond to open driving scenarios. Such understanding is typically founded upon Vision-Language Models (VLMs). Nevertheless, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Yunsong Zhou , Linyan Huang , Qingwen Bu , Jia Zeng , Tianyu Li , Hang Qiu , Hongzi Zhu , Minyi Guo , Yu Qiao , Hongyang Li

Recent advancements in end-to-end autonomous driving systems (ADSs) underscore their potential for perception and planning capabilities. However, challenges remain. Complex driving scenarios contain rich semantic information, yet ambiguous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Haowen Jiang , Xinyu Huang , You Lu , Dingji Wang , Yuheng Cao , Chaofeng Sha , Bihuan Chen , Keyu Chen , Xin Peng

Examining graphs for similarity is a well-known challenge, but one that is mandatory for grouping graphs together. We present a data-driven method to cluster traffic scenes that is self-supervised, i.e. without manual labelling. We leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Maximilian Zipfl , Moritz Jarosch , J. Marius Zöllner