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We report results obtained and insights gained while answering the following question: how effective is it to use a simulator to establish path following control policies for an autonomous ground robot? While the quality of the simulator…

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…

Detection of road curbs is an essential capability for autonomous driving. It can be used for autonomous vehicles to determine drivable areas on roads. Usually, road curbs are detected on-line using vehicle-mounted sensors, such as video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Zhenhua Xu , Yuxiang Sun , Ming Liu

Traffic simulation is an essential tool for transportation infrastructure planning, intelligent traffic control policy learning, and traffic flow analysis. Its effectiveness relies heavily on the realism of the simulators used. Traditional…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Longchao Da , Chen Chu , Weinan Zhang , Hua Wei

Simulation stands as a cornerstone for safe and efficient autonomous driving development. At its core a simulation system ought to produce realistic, reactive, and controllable traffic patterns. In this paper, we propose ProSim, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Shuhan Tan , Boris Ivanovic , Yuxiao Chen , Boyi Li , Xinshuo Weng , Yulong Cao , Philipp Krähenbühl , Marco Pavone

We present an innovative framework for traffic dynamics analysis using High-Order Evolving Graphs, designed to improve spatio-temporal representations in autonomous driving contexts. Our approach constructs temporal bidirectional bipartite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Aditya Humnabadkar , Arindam Sikdar , Benjamin Cave , Huaizhong Zhang , Paul Bakaki , Ardhendu Behera

Imitation learning provides a powerful framework for goal-conditioned visual navigation in mobile robots, enabling obstacle avoidance while respecting human preferences and social norms. However, its effectiveness depends critically on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yves Inglin , Jonas Frey , Changan Chen , Marco Hutter

We propose a perception imitation method to simulate results of a certain perception model, and discuss a new heuristic route of autonomous driving simulator without data synthesis. The motivation is that original sensor data is not always…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Xiaoliang Ju , Yiyang Sun , Yiming Hao , Yikang Li , Yu Qiao , Hongsheng Li

Road networks exist in the form of polylines with attributes within the GIS databases. Such a representation renders the geographic data impracticable for 3D road traffic simulation. In this work, we propose a method to transform raw GIS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Yacine Amara , Abdenour Amamra , Yasmine Daheur , Lamia Saichi

Robot learning requires adaptation methods that improve reliably from limited, mixed-quality interaction data. This is especially challenging in long-horizon, contact-rich tasks, where end-to-end policy finetuning remains inefficient and…

Training intelligent agents that can drive autonomously in various urban and highway scenarios has been a hot topic in the robotics society within the last decades. However, the diversity of driving environments in terms of road topology…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Behrad Toghi , Rodolfo Valiente , Ramtin Pedarsani , Yaser P. Fallah

Generating multi-vehicle interaction scenarios can benefit motion planning and decision making of autonomous vehicles when on-road data is insufficient. This paper presents an efficient approach to generate varied multi-vehicle interaction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Weiyang Zhang , Wenshuo Wang , Ding Zhao

Realistic network traffic simulation is critical for evaluating intrusion detection systems, stress-testing network protocols, and constructing high-fidelity environments for cybersecurity training. While attack traffic can often be layered…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Kristen Moore , Diksha Goel , Cody James Christopher , Zhen Wang , Minjune Kim , Ahmed Ibrahim , Ahmad Mohsin , Seyit Camtepe

The design and analysis of systems that combine computational behaviour with physical processes' continuous dynamics - such as movement, velocity, and voltage - is a famous, challenging task. Several theoretical results from programming…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Pedro Mendes , Ricardo Correia , Renato Neves , José Proença

Street-level visual appearances play an important role in studying social systems, such as understanding the built environment, driving routes, and associated social and economic factors. It has not been integrated into a typical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Tsung Heng Wu , Md Amiruzzaman , Ye Zhao , Deepshikha Bhati , Jing Yang

This paper proposes an approach to perform travel demand calibration for high-resolution stochastic traffic simulators. It employs abundant travel times at the path-level, departing from the standard practice of resorting to scarce…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Chao Zhang , Yechen Li , Neha Arora , Damien Pierce , Carolina Osorio

Imitation learning techniques have been shown to be highly effective in real-world control scenarios, such as robotics. However, these approaches not only suffer from compounding error issues but also require human experts to provide…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yigit Korkmaz , Erdem Bıyık

The increasing applications of autonomous driving systems necessitates large-scale, high-quality datasets to ensure robust performance across diverse scenarios. Synthetic data has emerged as a viable solution to augment real-world datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Enes Özeren , Arka Bhowmick

Real-time traffic state estimation is essential for intelligent transportation systems. The NeurIPS 2022 Traffic4cast challenge provides an excellent testbed for benchmarking short-term traffic state estimation approaches. This technical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Yichao Lu

Learning diverse and high-fidelity traffic simulations from human driving demonstrations is crucial for autonomous driving evaluation. The recent next-token prediction (NTP) paradigm, widely adopted in large language models (LLMs), has been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ziyan Wang , Peng Chen , Ding Li , Chiwei Li , Qichao Zhang , Zhongpu Xia , Guizhen Yu