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This paper investigates the integration of graph neural networks (GNNs) with Qualitative Explainable Graphs (QXGs) for scene understanding in automated driving. Scene understanding is the basis for any further reactive or proactive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Nassim Belmecheri , Arnaud Gotlieb , Nadjib Lazaar , Helge Spieker

For the classification of traffic scenes, a description model is necessary that can describe the scene in a uniform way, independent of its domain. A model to describe a traffic scene in a semantic way is described in this paper. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Maximilian Zipfl , J. Marius Zöllner

Objects and their relationships are critical contents for image understanding. A scene graph provides a structured description that captures these properties of an image. However, reasoning about the relationships between objects is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Sanghyun Woo , Dahun Kim , Donghyeon Cho , In So Kweon

Coverage analysis is essential for validating the safety of autonomous driving systems, yet existing approaches typically assess coverage factors individually or in limited combinations, struggling to capture the complex interactions…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-03 Thomas Muehlenstädt , Marius Bause

Vision-language models have recently emerged as promising planners for autonomous driving, where success hinges on topology-aware reasoning over spatial structure and dynamic interactions from multimodal input. However, existing models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Fabian Schmidt , Markus Enzweiler , Abhinav Valada

As a structured representation of the image content, the visual scene graph (visual relationship) acts as a bridge between computer vision and natural language processing. Existing models on the scene graph generation task notoriously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Yuyu Guo , Jingkuan Song , Lianli Gao , Heng Tao Shen

The key to achieving autonomous driving lies in topology-aware perception, the structured understanding of the driving environment with an emphasis on lane topology and road semantics. This survey systematically reviews four core research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yixiao Chen , Ruining Yang , Xin Chen , Jia He , Dongliang Xu , Yue Yao

Recognizing a traffic accident is an essential part of any autonomous driving or road monitoring system. An accident can appear in a wide variety of forms, and understanding what type of accident is taking place may be useful to prevent it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Aaron Lohner , Francesco Compagno , Jonathan Francis , Alessandro Oltramari

Traffic prediction has long been a focal and pivotal area in research, witnessing both significant strides from city-level to road-level predictions in recent years. With the advancement of Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) technologies,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Shuhao Li , Yue Cui , Jingyi Xu , Libin Li , Lingkai Meng , Weidong Yang , Fan Zhang , Xiaofang Zhou

Topology reasoning is crucial for autonomous driving as it enables comprehensive understanding of connectivity and relationships between lanes and traffic elements. While recent approaches have shown success in perceiving driving topology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Junjie Ye , David Paz , Hengyuan Zhang , Yuliang Guo , Xinyu Huang , Henrik I. Christensen , Yue Wang , Liu Ren

Interconnected road lanes are a central concept for navigating urban roads. Currently, most autonomous vehicles rely on preconstructed lane maps as designing an algorithmic model is difficult. However, the generation and maintenance of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Robin Karlsson , David Robert Wong , Simon Thompson , Kazuya Takeda

Heterogeneous graphs offer powerful data representations for traffic, given their ability to model the complex interaction effects among a varying number of traffic participants and the underlying road infrastructure. With the recent advent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Eivind Meyer , Maurice Brenner , Bowen Zhang , Max Schickert , Bilal Musani , Matthias Althoff

Scene graph generation refers to the task of automatically mapping an image into a semantic structural graph, which requires correctly labeling each extracted object and their interaction relationships. Despite the recent success in object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Mengshi Qi , Weijian Li , Zhengyuan Yang , Yunhong Wang , Jiebo Luo

Traffic scene recognition, which requires various visual classification tasks, is a critical ingredient in autonomous vehicles. However, most existing approaches treat each relevant task independently from one another, never considering the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Younkwan Lee , Jihyo Jeon , Jongmin Yu , Moongu Jeon

Aiming for higher-level scene understanding, this work presents a neural network approach that takes a road-layout map in bird's-eye-view as input, and predicts a human-interpretable graph that represents the road's topological layout. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Chenyang Lu , Gijs Dubbelman

Accurate road topology reasoning is critical for autonomous driving, as it requires both perceiving road elements and understanding how lanes connect to each other (L2L) and to traffic elements (L2T). Existing methods often focus on either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yueru Luo , Changqing Zhou , Yiming Yang , Erlong Li , Chao Zheng , Shuqi Mei , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Recently, road scene-graph representations used in conjunction with graph learning techniques have been shown to outperform state-of-the-art deep learning techniques in tasks including action classification, risk assessment, and collision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Arnav Vaibhav Malawade , Shih-Yuan Yu , Brandon Hsu , Harsimrat Kaeley , Anurag Karra , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

Visual Commonsense Reasoning, which is regarded as one challenging task to pursue advanced visual scene comprehension, has been used to diagnose the reasoning ability of AI systems. However, reliable reasoning requires a good grasp of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Fan Yuan , Xiaoyuan Fang , Rong Quan , Jing Li , Wei Bi , Xiaogang Xu , Piji Li

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

Lane detection is to detect lanes on the road and provide the accurate location and shape of each lane. It severs as one of the key techniques to enable modern assisted and autonomous driving systems. However, several unique properties of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Ze Wang , Weiqiang Ren , Qiang Qiu