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Autonomous driving evaluation requires simulation environments that closely replicate actual road conditions, including real-world sensory data and responsive feedback loops. However, many existing simulations need to predict waypoints…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Tianyi Yan , Dongming Wu , Wencheng Han , Junpeng Jiang , Xia Zhou , Kun Zhan , Cheng-zhong Xu , Jianbing Shen

World models have gained significant attention as a promising approach for autonomous driving. By emulating human-like perception and decision-making processes, these models can predict and adapt to dynamic environments. Existing methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Huiqian Li , Wei Pan , Haodong Zhang , Jin Huang , Zhihua Zhong

Recently, world models have been incorporated into the autonomous driving systems to improve the planning reliability. Existing approaches typically predict future states through appearance generation or deterministic regression, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Xiaolu Liu , Yicong Li , Song Wang , Junbo Chen , Angela Yao , Jianke Zhu

World models and video generation are pivotal technologies in the domain of autonomous driving, each playing a critical role in enhancing the robustness and reliability of autonomous systems. World models, which simulate the dynamics of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Ao Fu , Yi Zhou , Tao Zhou , Yi Yang , Bojun Gao , Qun Li , Guobin Wu , Ling Shao

Vision-centric autonomous driving has recently raised wide attention due to its lower cost. Pre-training is essential for extracting a universal representation. However, current vision-centric pre-training typically relies on either 2D or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Chen Min , Dawei Zhao , Liang Xiao , Jian Zhao , Xinli Xu , Zheng Zhu , Lei Jin , Jianshu Li , Yulan Guo , Junliang Xing , Liping Jing , Yiming Nie , Bin Dai

Large-scale driving datasets such as Waymo Open Dataset and nuScenes substantially accelerate autonomous driving research, especially for perception tasks such as 3D detection and trajectory forecasting. Since the driving logs in these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Quanyi Li , Zhenghao Peng , Lan Feng , Zhizheng Liu , Chenda Duan , Wenjie Mo , Bolei Zhou

Driving world models have gained increasing attention due to their ability to model complex physical dynamics. However, their superb modeling capability is yet to be fully unleashed due to the limited video diversity in current driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yuqi Wang , Ke Cheng , Jiawei He , Qitai Wang , Hengchen Dai , Yuntao Chen , Fei Xia , Zhaoxiang Zhang

World models have demonstrated significant promise for data synthesis in autonomous driving. However, existing methods predominantly concentrate on single-modality generation, typically focusing on either multi-camera video or LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Guosheng Zhao , Yaozeng Wang , Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Tingdong Yu , Guan Huang , Yongchen Zai , Ji Jiao , Changliang Xue , Xiaole Wang , Zhen Yang , Futang Zhu , Xingang Wang

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

With the rapid advancement of autonomous driving technology, a lack of data has become a major obstacle to enhancing perception model accuracy. Researchers are now exploring controllable data generation using world models to diversify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Xinqing Li , Ruiqi Song , Qingyu Xie , Ye Wu , Nanxin Zeng , Yunfeng Ai

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…

Understanding the evolution of 3D scenes is important for effective autonomous driving. While conventional methods mode scene development with the motion of individual instances, world models emerge as a generative framework to describe the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Lening Wang , Wenzhao Zheng , Yilong Ren , Han Jiang , Zhiyong Cui , Haiyang Yu , Jiwen Lu

Generating realistic and diverse road scenarios is essential for autonomous vehicle testing and validation. Nevertheless, owing to the complexity and variability of real-world road environments, creating authentic and varied scenarios for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Junjie Zhou , Lin Wang , Qiang Meng , Xiaofan Wang

Safety-critical traffic scenarios are integral to the development and validation of autonomous driving systems. These scenarios provide crucial insights into vehicle responses under high-risk conditions rarely encountered in real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Jinxiong Lu , Shoaib Azam , Gokhan Alcan , Ville Kyrki

Recently, world-action models (WAM) have emerged to bridge vision-language-action (VLA) models and world models, unifying their reasoning and instruction-following capabilities and spatio-temporal world modeling. However, existing WAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yang Zhou , Xiaofeng Wang , Hao Shao , Letian Wang , Guosheng Zhao , Jiangnan Shao , Jiagang Zhu , Tingdong Yu , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Steven L. Waslander

Driving world models are used to simulate futures by video generation based on the condition of the current state and actions. However, current models often suffer serious error accumulations when predicting the long-term future, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xiaodong Wang , Zhirong Wu , Peixi Peng

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

Driving simulation plays a crucial role in developing reliable driving agents by providing controlled, evaluative environments. To enable meaningful assessments, a high-quality driving simulator must satisfy several key requirements:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Junzhe Jiang , Nan Song , Jingyu Li , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang

Typically, autonomous driving adopts a modular design, which divides the full stack into perception, prediction, planning and control parts. Though interpretable, such modular design tends to introduce a substantial amount of redundancy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Fan Jia , Weixin Mao , Yingfei Liu , Yucheng Zhao , Yuqing Wen , Chi Zhang , Xiangyu Zhang , Tiancai Wang

Closed-loop simulation is crucial for end-to-end autonomous driving. Existing sensor simulation methods (e.g., NeRF and 3DGS) reconstruct driving scenes based on conditions that closely mirror training data distributions. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Chaojun Ni , Guosheng Zhao , Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Wenkang Qin , Guan Huang , Chen Liu , Yuyin Chen , Yida Wang , Xueyang Zhang , Yifei Zhan , Kun Zhan , Peng Jia , Xianpeng Lang , Xingang Wang , Wenjun Mei