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Fast, collision-free motion through unknown environments remains a challenging problem for robotic systems. In these situations, the robot's ability to reason about its future motion is often severely limited by sensor field of view (FOV).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Kapil Katyal , Katie Popek , Chris Paxton , Joseph Moore , Kevin Wolfe , Philippe Burlina , Gregory D. Hager

A common approach for modeling the environment of an autonomous vehicle are dynamic occupancy grid maps, in which the surrounding is divided into cells, each containing the occupancy and velocity state of its location. Despite the advantage…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Marcel Schreiber , Vasileios Belagiannis , Claudius Gläser , Klaus Dietmayer

Advanced end-to-end autonomous driving systems predict other vehicles' motions and plan ego vehicle's trajectory. The world model that can foresee the outcome of the trajectory has been used to evaluate the autonomous driving system.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Jian Zhu , Zhengyu Jia , Tian Gao , Jiaxin Deng , Shidi Li , Lang Zhang , Fu Liu , Peng Jia , Xianpeng Lang

What if a video generation model could not only imagine a plausible future, but the correct one, accurately reflecting how the world changes with each action? We address this question by presenting the Egocentric World Model (EgoWM), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Anurag Bagchi , Zhipeng Bao , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Yu-Xiong Wang , Pavel Tokmakov , Martial Hebert

World models have attracted increasing attention in autonomous driving for their ability to forecast potential future scenarios. In this paper, we propose BEVWorld, a novel framework that transforms multimodal sensor inputs into a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yumeng Zhang , Shi Gong , Kaixin Xiong , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiaofan Li , Xiao Tan , Fan Wang , Jizhou Huang , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Recent successes in autoregressive (AR) generation models, such as the GPT series in natural language processing, have motivated efforts to replicate this success in visual tasks. Some works attempt to extend this approach to autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Xiaotao Hu , Wei Yin , Mingkai Jia , Junyuan Deng , Xiaoyang Guo , Qian Zhang , Xiaoxiao Long , Ping Tan

We propose Occupancy Flow Fields, a new representation for motion forecasting of multiple agents, an important task in autonomous driving. Our representation is a spatio-temporal grid with each grid cell containing both the probability of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Reza Mahjourian , Jinkyu Kim , Yuning Chai , Mingxing Tan , Ben Sapp , Dragomir Anguelov

Humans navigate in their environment by learning a mental model of the world through passive observation and active interaction. Their world model allows them to anticipate what might happen next and act accordingly with respect to an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Anthony Hu

Accurate prediction of driving scene is a challenging task due to uncertainty in sensor data, the complex behaviors of agents, and the possibility of multiple feasible futures. Existing prediction methods using occupancy grid maps primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Rabbia Asghar , Lukas Rummelhard , Wenqian Liu , Anne Spalanzani , Christian Laugier

The rise of multi-modal large language models(MLLMs) has spurred their applications in autonomous driving. Recent MLLM-based methods perform action by learning a direct mapping from perception to action, neglecting the dynamics of the world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Julong Wei , Shanshuai Yuan , Pengfei Li , Qingda Hu , Zhongxue Gan , Wenchao Ding

Occlusion-aware prediction remains a critical challenge in autonomous driving due to the inherent uncertainty of unobserved regions. Existing approaches either overestimate risk based on reachable states or struggle to predict accurate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jie Jia , Yaofeng Su , Zeyu Bao , Yun Hong , Bingzhao Gao , Zhongxue Gan , Wenchao Ding

Reliable anticipation of traffic accidents is essential for advancing autonomous driving systems. However, this objective is limited by two fundamental challenges: the scarcity of diverse, high-quality training data and the frequent absence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yanchen Guan , Haicheng Liao , Chengyue Wang , Xingcheng Liu , Jiaxun Zhang , Zhenning Li

World models aim to learn action-controlled future prediction and have proven essential for the development of intelligent agents. However, most existing world models rely heavily on substantial action-labeled data and costly training,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shenyuan Gao , Siyuan Zhou , Yilun Du , Jun Zhang , Chuang Gan

Efficient navigation in dynamic environments requires anticipating how motion patterns evolve beyond the robot's immediate perceptual range, enabling preemptive rather than purely reactive planning in crowded scenes. Maps of Dynamics (MoDs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Iacopo Catalano , David Morilla-Cabello , Jorge Pena-Queralta , Eduardo Montijano

Learning world models can teach an agent how the world works in an unsupervised manner. Even though it can be viewed as a special case of sequence modeling, progress for scaling world models on robotic applications such as autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Lunjun Zhang , Yuwen Xiong , Ze Yang , Sergio Casas , Rui Hu , Raquel Urtasun

Environment prediction frameworks are integral for autonomous vehicles, enabling safe navigation in dynamic environments. LiDAR generated occupancy grid maps (L-OGMs) offer a robust bird's eye-view scene representation that facilitates…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Bernard Lange , Masha Itkina , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Semantic occupancy has emerged as a powerful representation in world models for its ability to capture rich spatial semantics. However, most existing occupancy world models rely on static and fixed embeddings or grids, which inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chenxu Dang , Haiyan Liu , Jason Bao , Pei An , Xinyue Tang , PanAn , Jie Ma , Bingchuan Sun , Yan Wang

We propose X-WAM, a Unified 4D World Model that unifies real-time robotic action execution and high-fidelity 4D world synthesis (video + 3D reconstruction) in a single framework, addressing the critical limitations of prior unified world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jun Guo , Qiwei Li , Peiyan Li , Zilong Chen , Nan Sun , Yifei Su , Heyun Wang , Yuan Zhang , Xinghang Li , Huaping Liu

A self-driving vehicle must understand its environment to determine the appropriate action. Traditional autonomy systems rely on object detection to find the agents in the scene. However, object detection assumes a discrete set of objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Sourav Biswas , Sergio Casas , Quinlan Sykora , Ben Agro , Abbas Sadat , Raquel Urtasun

Data-driven learning has advanced autonomous driving, yet task-specific models struggle with out-of-distribution scenarios due to their narrow optimization objectives and reliance on costly annotated data. We present DriveX, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Chen Shi , Shaoshuai Shi , Kehua Sheng , Bo Zhang , Li Jiang