English
Related papers

Related papers: Quantifying Uncertainty in Motion Prediction with …

200 papers

Autonomous navigation of car-like robots on uneven terrain poses unique challenges compared to flat terrain, particularly in traversability assessment and terrain-associated kinematic modelling for motion planning. This paper introduces…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Xiaoying Li , Long Xu , Xiaolin Huang , Donglai Xue , Zhihao Zhang , Zhichao Han , Chao Xu , Yanjun Cao , Fei Gao

Connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) promise to enhance safety, efficiency, and sustainability in urban transportation. However, this is contingent upon a CAV correctly predicting the motion of surrounding agents and planning its own motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Jiankai Sun , Shreyas Kousik , David Fridovich-Keil , Mac Schwager

For autonomous agents to successfully operate in real world, the ability to anticipate future motions of surrounding entities in the scene can greatly enhance their safety levels since potentially dangerous situations could be avoided in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Yeping Hu , Wei Zhan , Liting Sun , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Autonomous driving presents one of the largest problems that the robotics and artificial intelligence communities are facing at the moment, both in terms of difficulty and potential societal impact. Self-driving vehicles (SDVs) are expected…

Variational inference has had great success in scaling approximate Bayesian inference to big data by exploiting mini-batch training. To date, however, this strategy has been most applicable to models of independent data. We propose an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-19 Tom Ryder , Dennis Prangle , Andrew Golightly , Isaac Matthews

Trajectory prediction is crucial for autonomous driving as it aims to forecast the future movements of traffic participants. Traditional methods usually perform holistic inference on the trajectories of agents, neglecting the differences in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Guipeng Xin , Duanfeng Chu , Liping Lu , Zejian Deng , Yuang Lu , Xigang Wu

In this paper, we address the important problem in self-driving of forecasting multi-pedestrian motion and their shared scene occupancy map, critical for safe navigation. Our contributions are two-fold. First, we advocate for predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Katie Luo , Sergio Casas , Renjie Liao , Xinchen Yan , Yuwen Xiong , Wenyuan Zeng , Raquel Urtasun

Generalization is a central challenge in autonomous driving, as real-world deployment requires robust performance under unseen scenarios, sensor domains, and environmental conditions. Recent world-model-based planning methods have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Mengmeng Liu , Diankun Zhang , Jiuming Liu , Jianfeng Cui , Hongwei Xie , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Michael Ying Yang , Francesco Nex , Hao Cheng

Autonomous driving requires accurate scene understanding, including road geometry, traffic agents, and their semantic relationships. In online HD map generation scenarios, raster-based representations are well-suited to vision models but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zhigang Sun , Yiru Wang , Anqing Jiang , Shuo Wang , Yu Gao , Yuwen Heng , Shouyi Zhang , An He , Hao Jiang , Jinhao Chai , Zichong Gu , Wang Jijun , Shichen Tang , Lavdim Halilaj , Juergen Luettin , Hao Sun

Evaluation of per-sample uncertainty quantification from neural networks is essential for decision-making involving high-risk applications. A common approach is to use the predictive distribution from Bayesian or approximation models and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 H. Martin Gillis , Isaac Xu , Thomas Trappenberg

Most autonomous driving safety benchmarks use time-to-collision (TTC) to assess risk and guide safe behaviour. However, TTC-based methods treat risk as a one-dimensional closing problem, despite the inherently two-dimensional nature of…

To achieve high-levels of autonomy, modern robots require the ability to detect and recover from anomalies and failures with minimal human supervision. Multi-modal sensor signals could provide more information for such anomaly detection…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Tianchen Ji , Sri Theja Vuppala , Girish Chowdhary , Katherine Driggs-Campbell

In this work, we introduce a novel Deep Learning-based method to perceive the environment of a vehicle based on radar scans while accounting for uncertainties in its predictions. The environment of the host vehicle is segmented into equally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Marco Braun , Moritz Luszek , Jan Siegemund , Kevin Kollek , Anton Kummert

Uncertainty is prevalent in robotics. Due to measurement noise and complex dynamics, we cannot estimate the exact system and environment state. Since conservative motion planners are not guaranteed to find a safe control strategy in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Laura Lützow , Yue Meng , Andres Chavez Armijos , Chuchu Fan

In a given scene, humans can often easily predict a set of immediate future events that might happen. However, generalized pixel-level anticipation in computer vision systems is difficult because machine learning struggles with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Jacob Walker , Carl Doersch , Abhinav Gupta , Martial Hebert

Uncertainty in control and perception poses challenges for autonomous vehicle navigation in unstructured environments, leading to navigation failures and potential vehicle damage. This paper introduces a framework that minimizes control and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Junwon Seo , Jungwi Mun , Taekyung Kim

Social aspects of connectivity and information dispersion are often ignored while weighing the potential of Internet of Things (IoT). In the specialized domain of Internet of Vehicles (IoV), Social IoV (SIoV) is introduced realization its…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Kashif Zia , Arshad Muhammad , Dinesh Kumar Saini

A critical aspect of safe and efficient motion planning for autonomous vehicles (AVs) is to handle the complex and uncertain behavior of surrounding human-driven vehicles (HDVs). Despite intensive research on driver behavior prediction,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Jinhao Liang , Chaopeng Tan , Longhao Yan , Jingyuan Zhou , Guodong Yin , Kaidi Yang

Target tracking plays a crucial role in real-world scenarios, particularly in drug-trafficking interdiction, where the knowledge of an adversarial target's location is often limited. Improving autonomous tracking systems will enable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Sean Ye , Manisha Natarajan , Zixuan Wu , Matthew Gombolay

Despite the significant research efforts on trajectory prediction for automated driving, limited work exists on assessing the prediction reliability. To address this limitation we propose an approach that covers two sources of error, namely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Julian Wiederer , Julian Schmidt , Ulrich Kressel , Klaus Dietmayer , Vasileios Belagiannis