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Current research in semantic bird's-eye view segmentation for autonomous driving focuses solely on optimizing neural network models using a single dataset, typically nuScenes. This practice leads to the development of highly specialized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Manuel Alejandro Diaz-Zapata , Wenqian Liu , Robin Baruffa , Christian Laugier

Effective environment modeling is the foundation for autonomous driving, underpinning tasks from perception to planning. However, current paradigms often inadequately consider the feedback of ego motion to the observation, which leads to an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mingzhe Guo , Yixiang Yang , Chuanrong Han , Rufeng Zhang , Shirui Li , Ji Wan , Zhipeng Zhang

Transformers have been successfully applied to the visual tracking task and significantly promote tracking performance. The self-attention mechanism designed to model long-range dependencies is the key to the success of Transformers.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zhihong Fu , Zehua Fu , Qingjie Liu , Wenrui Cai , Yunhong Wang

V2X cooperation, through the integration of sensor data from both vehicles and infrastructure, is considered a pivotal approach to advancing autonomous driving technology. Current research primarily focuses on enhancing perception accuracy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Zhiwei Li , Bozhen Zhang , Lei Yang , Tianyu Shen , Nuo Xu , Ruosen Hao , Weiting Li , Tao Yan , Huaping Liu

Accurately perceiving instances and predicting their future motion are key tasks for autonomous vehicles, enabling them to navigate safely in complex urban traffic. While bird's-eye view (BEV) representations are commonplace in perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Peizheng Li , Shuxiao Ding , Xieyuanli Chen , Niklas Hanselmann , Marius Cordts , Juergen Gall

End-to-end (E2E) driving has become a cornerstone of both industry deployment and academic research, offering a single learnable pipeline that maps multi-sensor inputs to actions while avoiding hand-engineered modules. However, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yu Gao , Jijun Wang , Zongzheng Zhang , Anqing Jiang , Yiru Wang , Yuwen Heng , Shuo Wang , Hao Sun , Zhangfeng Hu , Hao Zhao

In autonomous driving, trajectory prediction is essential for safe and efficient navigation. While recent methods often rely on high-definition (HD) maps to provide structured environmental priors, such maps are costly to maintain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Minsang Kong , Myeongjun Kim , Sang Gu Kang , Hejiu Lu , Yupeng Zhong , Sang Hun Lee

End-to-end trained neural networks (NNs) are a compelling approach to autonomous vehicle control because of their ability to learn complex tasks without manual engineering of rule-based decisions. However, challenging road conditions,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Alexander Amini , Ava Soleimany , Sertac Karaman , Daniela Rus

Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have proven to be powerful tools for interpreting neural networks by decomposing hidden representations into disentangled, interpretable features via sparsity constraints. However, conventional SAEs are…

End-to-end autonomous driving resides not in the integration of perception and planning, but rather in the dynamic multi-agent game within a unified representation space. Most existing end-to-end models treat all agents equally, hindering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Kang Ding , Hongsong Wang , Jie Gui , Lei He

Accurate trajectory prediction has long been a major challenge for autonomous driving (AD). Traditional data-driven models predominantly rely on statistical correlations, often overlooking the causal relationships that govern traffic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Bonan Wang , Haicheng Liao , Chengyue Wang , Bin Rao , Yanchen Guan , Guyang Yu , Jiaxun Zhang , Songning Lai , Chengzhong Xu , Zhenning Li

We propose a sparse end-to-end multi-person pose regression framework, termed QueryPose, which can directly predict multi-person keypoint sequences from the input image. The existing end-to-end methods rely on dense representations to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Yabo Xiao , Kai Su , Xiaojuan Wang , Dongdong Yu , Lei Jin , Mingshu He , Zehuan Yuan

In recent years, autonomous parking has made significant advances, yet parking tasks still face challenges in extreme scenarios such as mechanical and dead-end parking slots, often resulting in failures. This is mainly due to traditional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Changze Li , Zhe Chen , Shaoyu Chen , Lisen Mu , Yijian Li , Yuelong Yu , Qian Zhang , Qing Su , Ming Yang , Tong Qin

End-to-end autonomous driving models are typically trained on multi-city datasets using supervised ImageNet-pretrained backbones, yet their ability to generalize to unseen cities remains largely unexamined. When training and evaluation data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Fatemeh Naeinian , Ali Hamza , Haoran Zhu , Anna Choromanska

End-to-end autonomous driving offers a streamlined alternative to the traditional modular pipeline, integrating perception, prediction, and planning within a single framework. While Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has recently gained…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Siyi Lu , Lei He , Shengbo Eben Li , Yugong Luo , Jianqiang Wang , Keqiang Li

End-to-end autonomous driving faces persistent challenges in both generating diverse, rule-compliant trajectories and robustly selecting the optimal path from these options via learned, multi-faceted evaluation. To address these challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Bin Wang , Pingjun Li , Jinkun Liu , Jun Cheng , Hailong Lei , Yinze Rong , Huan-ang Gao , Kangliang Chen , Xing Pan , Weihao Gu

Autonomous racing has rapidly gained research attention. Traditionally, racing cars rely on 2D LiDAR as their primary visual system. In this work, we explore the integration of an event camera with the existing system to provide enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Zhuyun Zhou , Zongwei Wu , Florian Bolli , Rémi Boutteau , Fan Yang , Radu Timofte , Dominique Ginhac , Tobi Delbruck

Semantic occupancy has emerged as a powerful representation in world models for its ability to capture rich spatial semantics. However, most existing occupancy world models rely on static and fixed embeddings or grids, which inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chenxu Dang , Haiyan Liu , Jason Bao , Pei An , Xinyue Tang , PanAn , Jie Ma , Bingchuan Sun , Yan Wang

While there have been advancements in autonomous driving control and traffic simulation, there have been little to no works exploring their unification with deep learning. Works in both areas seem to focus on entirely different exclusive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Laura Zheng , Sanghyun Son , Ming C. Lin

BEV-based 3D perception has emerged as a focal point of research in end-to-end autonomous driving. However, existing BEV approaches encounter significant challenges due to the large feature space, complicating efficient modeling and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Feng Li , Zhaoyue Wang , Enyuan Zhang , Mohammad Masum Billah , Yunduan Cui , Kun Xu