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Predicting the future motion of surrounding road users is a crucial and challenging task for autonomous driving (AD) and various advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS). Planning a safe future trajectory heavily depends on understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Maximilian Schäfer , Kun Zhao , Markus Bühren , Anton Kummert

Automatic traffic accidents detection has appealed to the machine vision community due to its implications on the development of autonomous intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and importance to traffic safety. Most previous studies on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yajun Xu , Chuwen Huang , Yibing Nan , Shiguo Lian

We introduce the Visual Implicit Geometry Transformer (ViGT), an autonomous driving geometric model that estimates continuous 3D occupancy fields from surround-view camera rigs. ViGT represents a step towards foundational geometric models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Arsenii Shirokov , Mikhail Kuznetsov , Danila Stepochkin , Egor Evdokimov , Daniil Glazkov , Nikolay Patakin , Anton Konushin , Dmitry Senushkin

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have gained popularity in the autonomous driving (AD) community. Recent methods show NeRFs' potential for closed-loop simulation, enabling testing of AD systems, and as an advanced training data augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Adam Tonderski , Carl Lindström , Georg Hess , William Ljungbergh , Lennart Svensson , Christoffer Petersson

Autonomous driving requires understanding infrastructure elements, such as lanes and crosswalks. To navigate safely, this understanding must be derived from sensor data in real-time and needs to be represented in vectorized form. Learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Thomas Monninger , Md Zafar Anwar , Stanislaw Antol , Steffen Staab , Sihao Ding

Rapid advancements in Autonomous Driving (AD) tasks turned a significant shift toward end-to-end fashion, particularly in the utilization of vision-language models (VLMs) that integrate robust logical reasoning and cognitive abilities to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Yifan Bai , Dongming Wu , Yingfei Liu , Fan Jia , Weixin Mao , Ziheng Zhang , Yucheng Zhao , Jianbing Shen , Xing Wei , Tiancai Wang , Xiangyu Zhang

What is a good visual representation for autonomous agents? We address this question in the context of semantic visual navigation, which is the problem of a robot finding its way through a complex environment to a target object, e.g. go to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Arsalan Mousavian , Alexander Toshev , Marek Fiser , Jana Kosecka , Ayzaan Wahid , James Davidson

Building vehicles capable of operating without human supervision requires the determination of the agent's pose. Visual Odometry (VO) algorithms estimate the egomotion using only visual changes from the input images. The most recent VO…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Iury Cleveston , Esther L. Colombini

Offline vectorized maps constitute critical infrastructure for high-precision autonomous driving and mapping services. Existing approaches rely predominantly on single ego-vehicle trajectories, which fundamentally suffer from viewpoint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zedong Dan , Zijie Wang , Wei Zhang , Xiangru Lin , Weiming Zhang , Xiao Tan , Jingdong Wang , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

Out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios in autonomous driving pose critical challenges, as planners often fail to generalize beyond their training experience, leading to unsafe or unexpected behavior. Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Hayeon Oh

World models can foresee the outcomes of different actions, which is of paramount importance for autonomous driving. Nevertheless, existing driving world models still have limitations in generalization to unseen environments, prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Shenyuan Gao , Jiazhi Yang , Li Chen , Kashyap Chitta , Yihang Qiu , Andreas Geiger , Jun Zhang , Hongyang Li

The simulation-based testing is essential for safely implementing autonomous vehicles (AV) on roads, necessitating simulated traffic environments that dynamically interact with the Vehicle Under Test (VUT). This study introduces a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Yiru Liu , Xiaocong Zhao , Jian Sun

The autonomous driving community is increasingly focused on addressing the challenges posed by out-of-distribution (OOD) driving scenarios. A dominant research trend seeks to enhance end-to-end (E2E) driving systems by integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Yingzi Ma , Yulong Cao , Wenhao Ding , Shuibai Zhang , Yan Wang , Boris Ivanovic , Ming Jiang , Marco Pavone , Chaowei Xiao

End-to-end autonomous driving methods aim to directly map raw sensor inputs to future driving actions such as planned trajectories, bypassing traditional modular pipelines. While these approaches have shown promise, they often operate under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Bozhou Zhang , Nan Song , Jingyu Li , Xiatian Zhu , Jiankang Deng , Li Zhang

This study aims to improve the performance and generalization capability of end-to-end autonomous driving with scene understanding leveraging deep learning and multimodal sensor fusion techniques. The designed end-to-end deep neural network…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Zhiyu Huang , Chen Lv , Yang Xing , Jingda Wu

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

Autonomous vehicles have limited computational resources and thus require efficient control systems. The cost and size of sensors have limited the development of self-driving cars. To overcome these restrictions, this study proposes an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Der-Hau Lee

End-to-End Autonomous Driving (E2EAD) methods typically rely on supervised perception tasks to extract explicit scene information (e.g., objects, maps). This reliance necessitates expensive annotations and constrains deployment and data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Peidong Li , Dixiao Cui

Vehicle trajectory prediction is crucial for autonomous driving and advanced driver assistant systems. While existing approaches may sample from a predicted distribution of vehicle trajectories, they lack the ability to explore it -- a key…

Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly advancing the field of Autonomous Driving (AD), extending beyond traditional applications in text, image, and video generation. We explore how generative models can enhance automotive tasks, such as static…