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Automated creation of synthetic traffic scenarios is a key part of validating the safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs). In this paper, we propose Scenario Diffusion, a novel diffusion-based architecture for generating traffic scenarios that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Ethan Pronovost , Meghana Reddy Ganesina , Noureldin Hendy , Zeyu Wang , Andres Morales , Kai Wang , Nicholas Roy

We present ChatScene, a Large Language Model (LLM)-based agent that leverages the capabilities of LLMs to generate safety-critical scenarios for autonomous vehicles. Given unstructured language instructions, the agent first generates…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Jiawei Zhang , Chejian Xu , Bo Li

Ensuring the safety and robustness of autonomous driving systems necessitates a comprehensive evaluation in safety-critical scenarios. However, these safety-critical scenarios are rare and difficult to collect from real-world driving data,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Mingxing Peng , Yuting Xie , Xusen Guo , Ruoyu Yao , Hai Yang , Jun Ma

Style-conditioned scene text generation faces unique challenges in extracting precise text styles from complex backgrounds and maintaining fine-grained style consistency across characters, especially for multilingual scripts. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zeyu Chen , Fangmin Zhao , Yan Shu , Yichao Liu , Liu Yu , Yu Zhou

Despite recent advancements in single-domain or single-object image generation, it is still challenging to generate complex scenes containing diverse, multiple objects and their interactions. Scene graphs, composed of nodes as objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Sarthak Garg , Helisa Dhamo , Azade Farshad , Sabrina Musatian , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Accurate trajectory prediction is fundamental to autonomous driving, as it underpins safe motion planning and collision avoidance in complex environments. However, existing benchmark datasets suffer from a pronounced long-tail distribution…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ruining Yang , Yi Xu , Yixiao Chen , Yun Fu , Lili Su

The validation of autonomous driving systems benefits greatly from the ability to generate scenarios that are both realistic and precisely controllable. Conventional approaches, such as real-world test drives, are not only expensive but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yizhuo Xiao , Mustafa Suphi Erden , Cheng Wang

Simulation has the potential to massively scale evaluation of self-driving systems enabling rapid development as well as safe deployment. To close the gap between simulation and the real world, we need to simulate realistic multi-agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Simon Suo , Sebastian Regalado , Sergio Casas , Raquel Urtasun

We introduce ClutterGen, a physically compliant simulation scene generator capable of producing highly diverse, cluttered, and stable scenes for robot learning. Generating such scenes is challenging as each object must adhere to physical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yinsen Jia , Boyuan Chen

A longstanding challenge for self-driving development is simulating dynamic driving scenarios seeded from recorded driving logs. In pursuit of this functionality, we apply tools from discrete sequence modeling to model how vehicles,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jonah Philion , Xue Bin Peng , Sanja Fidler

Evaluating autonomous vehicles with controllability enables scalable testing in counterfactual or structured settings, enhancing both efficiency and safety. We introduce LangTraj, a language-conditioned scene-diffusion model that simulates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Wei-Jer Chang , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Manmohan Chandraker , Francesco Pittaluga

Training and evaluating autonomous driving algorithms requires a diverse range of scenarios. However, most available datasets predominantly consist of normal driving behaviors demonstrated by human drivers, resulting in a limited number of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Miao Li , Wenhao Ding , Haohong Lin , Yiqi Lyu , Yihang Yao , Yuyou Zhang , Ding Zhao

For autonomous vehicles, safe navigation in complex environments depends on handling a broad range of diverse and rare driving scenarios. Simulation- and scenario-based testing have emerged as key approaches to development and validation of…

Traffic scene understanding is essential for enabling autonomous vehicles to accurately perceive and interpret their environment, thereby ensuring safe navigation. This paper presents a novel framework that transforms a single frontal-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Danial Sadrian Zadeh , Otman A. Basir , Behzad Moshiri

In autonomous driving tasks, scene understanding is the first step towards predicting the future behavior of the surrounding traffic participants. Yet, how to represent a given scene and extract its features are still open research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Ali Keysan , Andreas Look , Eitan Kosman , Gonca Gürsun , Jörg Wagner , Yu Yao , Barbara Rakitsch

We introduce Scenario Dreamer, a fully data-driven generative simulator for autonomous vehicle planning that generates both the initial traffic scene - comprising a lane graph and agent bounding boxes - and closed-loop agent behaviours.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Luke Rowe , Roger Girgis , Anthony Gosselin , Liam Paull , Christopher Pal , Felix Heide

Traffic simulation is a crucial tool for transportation decision-making and policy development. However, achieving realistic simulations in the face of the high dimensionality and heterogeneity of traffic environments is a longstanding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Ding Wang , Xuhong Wang , Liang Chen , Shengyue Yao , Ming Jing , Honghai Li , Li Li , Shiqiang Bao , Fei-Yue Wang , Yilun Lin

Numerous solutions are proposed for the Traffic Signal Control (TSC) tasks aiming to provide efficient transportation and mitigate congestion waste. In recent, promising results have been attained by Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Longchao Da , Minquan Gao , Hao Mei , Hua Wei

Cyber-physical systems like autonomous vehicles are tested in simulation before deployment, using domain-specific programs for scenario specification. To aid the testing of autonomous vehicles in simulation, we design a natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Rimvydas Rubavicius , Antonio Valerio Miceli-Barone , Alex Lascarides , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

Being able to safely operate for extended periods of time in dynamic environments is a critical capability for autonomous systems. This generally involves the prediction and understanding of motion patterns of dynamic entities, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Weiming Zhi , Tin Lai , Lionel Ott , Gilad Francis , Fabio Ramos