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Human mobility prediction is a core functionality in many location-based services and applications. However, due to the sparsity of mobility data, it is not an easy task to predict future POIs (place-of-interests) that are going to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Hao Xue , Flora D. Salim , Yongli Ren , Nuria Oliver

In commentary driving, drivers verbalise their observations, assessments and intentions. By speaking out their thoughts, both learning and expert drivers are able to create a better understanding and awareness of their surroundings. In the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Daniel Omeiza , Sule Anjomshoae , Helena Webb , Marina Jirotka , Lars Kunze

Hindsight relabeling is a powerful tool for overcoming sparsity in goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (GCRL), especially in certain domains such as navigation and locomotion. However, hindsight relabeling can struggle in object-centric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Caleb Chuck , Fan Feng , Carl Qi , Chang Shi , Siddhant Agarwal , Amy Zhang , Scott Niekum

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) promise a range of societal advantages, including broader access to mobility, reduced road accidents, and enhanced transportation efficiency. However, evaluating the risks linked to AVs is complex due to limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Alessandro Zanardi , Andrea Censi , Margherita Atzei , Luigi Di Lillo , Emilio Frazzoli

As AI systems become increasingly autonomous, aligning their decision-making to human preferences is essential. In domains like autonomous driving or robotics, it is impossible to write down the reward function representing these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Ondrej Bajgar , Sid William Gould , Rohan Narayan Langford Mitta , Jonathon Liu , Oliver Newcombe , Jack Golden

Enhancing the robustness of object detection systems under adverse weather conditions is crucial for the advancement of autonomous driving technology. This study presents a novel approach leveraging the diffusion model Instruct Pix2Pix to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Unai Gurbindo , Axel Brando , Jaume Abella , Caroline König

Reasoning about potential occlusions is essential for robots to efficiently predict whether an object exists in an environment. Though existing work shows that a robot with active perception can achieve various tasks, it is still unclear if…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Mengdi Li , Cornelius Weber , Matthias Kerzel , Jae Hee Lee , Zheni Zeng , Zhiyuan Liu , Stefan Wermter

Current multi-modal models exhibit a notable misalignment with the human visual system when identifying objects that are visually assimilated into the background. Our observations reveal that these multi-modal models cannot distinguish…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ruolin Shen , Xiaozhong Ji , Kai WU , Jiangning Zhang , Yijun He , HaiHua Yang , Xiaobin Hu , Xiaoyu Sun

Understanding and mitigating drivers' negative emotions, stress levels, and anxiety is of high importance for decreasing accident rates, and enhancing road safety. While detecting drivers' stress and negative emotions can significantly help…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Arash Tavakoli , Nathan Lai , Vahid Balali , Arsalan Heydarian

Active perception approaches select future viewpoints by using some estimate of the information gain. An inaccurate estimate can be detrimental in critical situations, e.g., locating a person in distress. However the true information gained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Siming He , Yuezhan Tao , Igor Spasojevic , Vijay Kumar , Pratik Chaudhari

Autonomous driving is a multi-task problem requiring a deep understanding of the visual environment. End-to-end autonomous systems have attracted increasing interest as a method of learning to drive without exhaustively programming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Alexander Makrigiorgos , Ali Shafti , Alex Harston , Julien Gerard , A. Aldo Faisal

Estimation of temporal counterfactual outcomes from observed history is crucial for decision-making in many domains such as healthcare and e-commerce, particularly when randomized controlled trials (RCTs) suffer from high cost or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Chuizheng Meng , Yihe Dong , Sercan Ö. Arık , Yan Liu , Tomas Pfister

Human-Object Interaction (HOI) detection devotes to learn how humans interact with surrounding objects. Latest end-to-end HOI detectors are short of relation reasoning, which leads to inability to learn HOI-specific interactive semantics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Dongming Yang , Yuexian Zou , Can Zhang , Meng Cao , Jie Chen

The environments, in which autonomous cars act, are high-risky, dynamic, and full of uncertainty, demanding a continuous update of their sensory information and knowledge bases. The frequency of facing an unknown object is too high making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Paulo R. Vieira , Pedro D. Félix , Luis Macedo

Higher-Order Influence Functions (HOIF), developed in a series of papers over the past twenty years, are a fundamental theoretical device for constructing rate-optimal causal-effect estimators from observational studies. However, the value…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-19 Sihui Zhao , Xinbo Wang , Lin Liu , Xin Zhang

Current limitations in boosted tree modelling prevent the effective scaling to datasets with a large feature number, particularly when investigating the magnitude and directionality of various features on classification. We present a novel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-17 Stephane Doyen , Hugh Taylor , Peter Nicholas , Lewis Crawford , Isabella Young , Michael Sughrue

Effective leveraging of real-world driving datasets is crucial for enhancing the training of autonomous driving systems. While Offline Reinforcement Learning enables training autonomous vehicles with such data, most available datasets lack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Vinal Asodia , Barkin Dagda , Yinglong He , Zhenhua Feng , Saber Fallah

Human object interaction (HOI) detection is an important task in image understanding and reasoning. It is in a form of HOI triplet <human; verb; object>, requiring bounding boxes for human and object, and action between them for the task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Suresh Kirthi Kumaraswamy , Miaojing Shi , Ewa Kijak

Object affordance is an important concept in human-object interaction, providing information on action possibilities based on human motor capacity and objects' physical property thus benefiting tasks such as action anticipation and robot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Zecheng Yu , Yifei Huang , Ryosuke Furuta , Takuma Yagi , Yusuke Goutsu , Yoichi Sato

In light of the dynamic nature of autonomous driving environments and stringent safety requirements, general MLLMs combined with CLIP alone often struggle to accurately represent driving-specific scenarios, particularly in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Hao Zhou , Zhanning Gao , Zhili Chen , Maosheng Ye , Qifeng Chen , Tongyi Cao , Honggang Qi