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We present a new interaction mechanism of prediction and planning for end-to-end autonomous driving, called PPAD (Iterative Interaction of Prediction and Planning Autonomous Driving), which considers the timestep-wise interaction to better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zhili Chen , Maosheng Ye , Shuangjie Xu , Tongyi Cao , Qifeng Chen

Directly producing planning results from raw sensors has been a long-desired solution for autonomous driving and has attracted increasing attention recently. Most existing end-to-end autonomous driving methods factorize this problem into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Wenzhao Zheng , Ruiqi Song , Xianda Guo , Chenming Zhang , Long Chen

End-to-End driving is a promising paradigm as it circumvents the drawbacks associated with modular systems, such as their overwhelming complexity and propensity for error propagation. Autonomous driving transcends conventional traffic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Pranav Singh Chib , Pravendra Singh

End-to-end autonomous driving has achieved remarkable advancements in recent years. Existing methods primarily follow a perception-planning paradigm, where perception and planning are executed sequentially within a fully differentiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Bozhou Zhang , Jingyu Li , Nan Song , Li Zhang

End-to-end autonomous driving has gained significant attention for its potential to learn robust behavior in interactive scenarios and scale with data. Popular architectures often build on separate modules for perception and planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 David Holtz , Niklas Hanselmann , Simon Doll , Marius Cordts , Bernt Schiele

We propose UAD, a method for vision-based end-to-end autonomous driving (E2EAD), achieving the best open-loop evaluation performance in nuScenes, meanwhile showing robust closed-loop driving quality in CARLA. Our motivation stems from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Mingzhe Guo , Zhipeng Zhang , Yuan He , Ke Wang , Liping Jing

Although end-to-end autonomous driving (E2E-AD) technologies have made significant progress in recent years, there remains an unsatisfactory performance on closed-loop evaluation. The potential of leveraging planning in query design and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Yingqi Tang , Zhuoran Xu , Zhaotie Meng , Erkang Cheng

Trajectory sampling in the Frenet(road-aligned) frame, is one of the most popular methods for motion planning of autonomous vehicles. It operates by sampling a set of behavioural inputs, such as lane offset and forward speed, before solving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jatan Shrestha , Simon Idoko , Basant Sharma , Arun Kumar Singh

End-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving systems offer a promising alternative to traditional modular pipelines by reducing information loss and error accumulation, with significant potential to enhance both mobility and safety. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Ke Guo , Haochen Liu , Xiaojun Wu , Jia Pan , Chen Lv

Autonomous vehicles demand high accuracy and robustness of perception algorithms. To develop efficient and scalable perception algorithms, the maximum information should be extracted from the available sensor data. In this work, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Sebastian Huch , Florian Sauerbeck , Johannes Betz

In recent years, considerable progress has been made towards a vehicle's ability to operate autonomously. An end-to-end approach attempts to achieve autonomous driving using a single, comprehensive software component. Recent breakthroughs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Hege Haavaldsen , Max Aasboe , Frank Lindseth

End-to-end autonomous driving (E2E-AD) has emerged as a promising paradigm that unifies perception, prediction, and planning into a holistic, data-driven framework. However, achieving robustness to varying camera viewpoints, a common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Hoonhee Cho , Jae-Young Kang , Giwon Lee , Hyemin Yang , Heejun Park , Seokwoo Jung , Kuk-Jin Yoon

End-to-end multi-modal planning has been widely adopted to model the uncertainty of driving behavior, typically by scoring candidate trajectories and selecting the optimal one. Existing approaches generally fall into two categories: scoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Wenchao Sun , Xuewu Lin , Keyu Chen , Zixiang Pei , Xiang Li , Yining Shi , Sifa Zheng

Deep reinforcement Learning for end-to-end driving is limited by the need of complex reward engineering. Sparse rewards can circumvent this challenge but suffers from long training time and leads to sub-optimal policy. In this work, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Pranav Agarwal , Pierre de Beaucorps , Raoul de Charette

Cooperative perception can increase the view field and decrease the occlusion of an ego vehicle, hence improving the perception performance and safety of autonomous driving. Despite the success of previous works on cooperative object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yunshuang Yuan , Yan Xia , Daniel Cremers , Monika Sester

Autonomous driving is an emerging technology that is expected to bring significant social, economic, and environmental benefits. However, these benefits come with rising energy consumption by computation engines, limiting the driving range…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Yuyang Xia , Zibo Liang , Liwei Deng , Yan Zhao , Han Su , Kai Zheng

End-to-end autonomous driving provides a feasible way to automatically maximize overall driving system performance by directly mapping the raw pixels from a front-facing camera to control signals. Recent advanced methods construct a latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Zeyu Gao , Yao Mu , Chen Chen , Jingliang Duan , Shengbo Eben Li , Ping Luo , Yanfeng Lu

Vision-based perception for autonomous driving requires an explicit modeling of a 3D space, where 2D latent representations are mapped and subsequent 3D operators are applied. However, operating on dense latent spaces introduces a cubic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Pin Tang , Zhongdao Wang , Guoqing Wang , Jilai Zheng , Xiangxuan Ren , Bailan Feng , Chao Ma

Recent advancements in deep learning and the availability of high-quality real-world driving datasets have propelled end-to-end autonomous driving. Despite this progress, relying solely on real-world data limits the variety of driving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Jongsuk Kim , Jaeyoung Lee , Gyojin Han , Dongjae Lee , Minki Jeong , Junmo Kim

This paper introduces a novel architecture for trajectory-conditioned forecasting of future 3D scene occupancy. In contrast to methods that rely on variational autoencoders (VAEs) to generate discrete occupancy tokens, which inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Jiayuan Du , Yiming Zhao , Zhenglong Guo , Yong Pan , Wenbo Hou , Zhihui Hao , Kun Zhan , Qijun Chen