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Predicting the future motion of surrounding road users is a crucial and challenging task for autonomous driving (AD) and various advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS). Planning a safe future trajectory heavily depends on understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Maximilian Schäfer , Kun Zhao , Markus Bühren , Anton Kummert

Autonomous vehicles are gradually entering city roads today, with the help of high-definition maps (HDMaps). However, the reliance on HDMaps prevents autonomous vehicles from stepping into regions without this expensive digital…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zhou Jiang , Zhenxin Zhu , Pengfei Li , Huan-ang Gao , Tianyuan Yuan , Yongliang Shi , Hang Zhao , Hao Zhao

To handle the two shortcomings of existing methods, (i)nearly all models rely on high-definition (HD) maps, yet the map information is not always available in real traffic scenes and HD map-building is expensive and time-consuming and (ii)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Junhong Xiang , Jingmin Zhang , Zhixiong Nan

Anticipating the motion of other road users is crucial for automated driving systems (ADS), as it enables safe and informed downstream decision-making and motion planning. Unfortunately, contemporary learning-based approaches for motion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 MReza Alipour Sormoli , Amir Samadi , Sajjad Mozaffari , Konstantinos Koufos , Mehrdad Dianati , Roger Woodman

An active area of research is to increase the safety of self-driving vehicles. Although safety cannot be guarenteed completely, the capability of a vehicle to predict the future trajectories of its surrounding vehicles could help ensure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Shayan Jawed , Eya Boumaiza , Josif Grabocka , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Autonomous Vehicles (AV) and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) have been revolutionized by Deep Learning. As a data-driven approach, Deep Learning relies on vast amounts of driving data, typically labeled in great detail. As a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Whye Kit Fong , Venice Erin Liong , Kok Seang Tan , Holger Caesar

Reliable uncertainty quantification in trajectory prediction is crucial for safety-critical autonomous driving systems, yet existing deep learning predictors lack uncertainty-aware frameworks adaptable to heterogeneous real-world scenarios.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Yiming Shu , Jiahui Xu , Linghuan Kong , Fangni Zhang , Guodong Yin , Chen Sun

The majority of current approaches in autonomous driving rely on High-Definition (HD) maps which detail the road geometry and surrounding area. Yet, this reliance is one of the obstacles to mass deployment of autonomous vehicles due to poor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Li Zhang , Faezeh Tafazzoli , Gunther Krehl , Runsheng Xu , Timo Rehfeld , Manuel Schier , Arunava Seal

Estimating collision probabilities between robots and environmental obstacles or other moving agents is crucial to ensure safety during path planning. This is an important building block of modern planning algorithms in many application…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Felix Herrmann , Sebastian Zach , Jacopo Banfi , Jan Peters , Georgia Chalvatzaki , Davide Tateo

In this paper, we extend a framework that we developed earlier for coordination of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) at a signal-free intersection to incorporate uncertainty. Using the possibly noisy observations of actual time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-13 Behdad Chalaki , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

We address one of the crucial aspects necessary for safe and efficient operations of autonomous vehicles, namely predicting future state of traffic actors in the autonomous vehicle's surroundings. We introduce a deep learning-based approach…

Autonomous robotic tasks require actively perceiving the environment to achieve application-specific goals. In this paper, we address the problem of positioning an RGB camera to collect the most informative images to represent an unknown…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Liren Jin , Xieyuanli Chen , Julius Rückin , Marija Popović

We introduce a motion forecasting (behavior prediction) method that meets the latency requirements for autonomous driving in dense urban environments without sacrificing accuracy. A whole-scene sparse input representation allows StopNet to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Jinkyu Kim , Reza Mahjourian , Scott Ettinger , Mayank Bansal , Brandyn White , Ben Sapp , Dragomir Anguelov

The challenge of traversability estimation is a crucial aspect of autonomous navigation in unstructured outdoor environments such as forests. It involves determining whether certain areas are passable or risky for robots, taking into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Fetullah Atas , Grzegorz Cielniak , Lars Grimstad

In recent years, the rapid development of high-precision map technology combined with artificial intelligence has ushered in a new development opportunity in the field of intelligent vehicles. High-precision map technology is an important…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yong Wang , Yanlin Zhou , Huan Ji , Zheng He , Xinyu Shen

Forecasting the future trajectories of surrounding agents is crucial for autonomous vehicles to ensure safe, efficient, and comfortable route planning. While model ensembling has improved prediction accuracy in various fields, its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Aron Distelzweig , Eitan Kosman , Andreas Look , Faris Janjoš , Denesh K. Manivannan , Abhinav Valada

Slippery road conditions pose significant challenges for autonomous driving. Beyond predicting road grip, it is crucial to estimate its uncertainty reliably to ensure safe vehicle control. In this work, we benchmark several uncertainty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Jyri Maanpää , Julius Pesonen , Iaroslav Melekhov , Heikki Hyyti , Juha Hyyppä

Map-based methods for autonomous racing estimate the vehicle's location, which is used to follow a high-level plan. While map-based optimisation methods demonstrate high-performance results, they are limited by requiring a map of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Benjamin David Evans , Hendrik Willem Jordaan , Herman Arnold Engelbrecht

Autonomous driving has traditionally relied heavily on costly and labor-intensive High Definition (HD) maps, hindering scalability. In contrast, Standard Definition (SD) maps are more affordable and have worldwide coverage, offering a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Katie Z Luo , Xinshuo Weng , Yan Wang , Shuang Wu , Jie Li , Kilian Q Weinberger , Yue Wang , Marco Pavone

To reduce the reliance on high-definition (HD) maps, a growing trend in autonomous driving is leveraging onboard sensors to generate vectorized maps online. However, current methods are mostly constrained by processing only single-frame…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jiagang Chen , Liangliang Pan , Shunping Ji , Ji Zhao , Zichao Zhang