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Planning safe trajectories for autonomous vehicles is essential for operational safety but remains extremely challenging due to the complex interactions among traffic participants. Recent autonomous driving frameworks have focused on…

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Scene flow enables an understanding of the motion characteristics of the environment in the 3D world. It gains particular significance in the long-range, where object-based perception methods might fail due to sparse observations far away.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Ajinkya Khoche , Qingwen Zhang , Laura Pereira Sanchez , Aron Asefaw , Sina Sharif Mansouri , Patric Jensfelt

Autonomous driving is of great interest to industry and academia alike. The use of machine learning approaches for autonomous driving has long been studied, but mostly in the context of perception. In this paper we take a deeper look on the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Ardi Tampuu , Maksym Semikin , Naveed Muhammad , Dmytro Fishman , Tambet Matiisen

Motion prediction of road users in traffic scenes is critical for autonomous driving systems that must take safe and robust decisions in complex dynamic environments. We present a novel motion prediction system for autonomous driving. Our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Morris Antonello , Mihai Dobre , Stefano V. Albrecht , John Redford , Subramanian Ramamoorthy

End-to-end autonomous driving frameworks enable seamless integration of perception and planning but often rely on one-shot trajectory prediction, which may lead to unstable control and vulnerability to occlusions in single-frame perception.…

Over the past few years there is a growing interest in the learning-based self driving system. To ensure safety, such systems are first developed and validated in simulators before being deployed in the real world. However, most of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Quanyi Li , Zhenghao Peng , Qihang Zhang , Chunxiao Liu , Bolei Zhou

Automated driving has the potential to revolutionize personal, public, and freight mobility. Beside accurately perceiving the environment, automated vehicles must plan a safe, comfortable, and efficient motion trajectory. To promote safety…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Steffen Hagedorn , Marcel Hallgarten , Martin Stoll , Alexandru Condurache

Autonomous driving systems remain brittle in rare, ambiguous, and out-of-distribution scenarios, where human driver succeed through contextual reasoning. Shared autonomy has emerged as a promising approach to mitigate such failures by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Phat Nguyen , Erfan Aasi , Shiva Sreeram , Guy Rosman , Andrew Silva , Sertac Karaman , Daniela Rus

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

Motion planning for autonomous driving must handle multiple plausible futures while remaining computationally efficient. Recent end-to-end systems and world-model-based planners predict rich multi-modal trajectories, but typically rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Bin Hu , Zijian Lu , Haicheng Liao , Chengran Yuan , Bin Rao , Yongkang Li , Guofa Li , Zhiyong Cui , Cheng-zhong Xu , Zhenning Li

In the field of autonomous driving, a variety of sensor data types exist, each representing different modalities of the same scene. Therefore, it is feasible to utilize data from other sensors to facilitate image compression. However, few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Yiheng Jiang , Haotian Zhang , Li Li , Dong Liu , Zhu Li

While Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have gained significant traction across various fields, path planning in 3D environments remains a critical challenge, particularly under size, weight, and power (SWAP) constraints. Traditional modular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yufei Jiang , Yuanzhu Zhan , Harsh Vardhan Gupta , Chinmay Borde , Junyi Geng

We present a flow-matching planner for autonomous driving that directly outputs actionable control trajectories defined by acceleration and curvature profiles. The model is conditioned on a bird's-eye-view (BEV) raster of the surrounding…

The increase in vehicle ownership has led to increased traffic congestion, more accidents, and higher carbon emissions. Vehicle platooning is a promising solution to address these issues by improving road capacity and reducing fuel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jiale Zhang , Yeqiang Qian , Tong Qin , Mingyang Jiang , Siyuan Chen , Ming Yang

Predicting future trajectories of traffic agents in highly interactive environments is an essential and challenging problem for the safe operation of autonomous driving systems. On the basis of the fact that self-driving vehicles are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Chiho Choi , Joon Hee Choi , Jiachen Li , Srikanth Malla

Predicting future trajectories of traffic agents in highly interactive environments is an essential and challenging problem for the safe operation of autonomous driving systems. On the basis of the fact that self-driving vehicles are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Chiho Choi , Joon Hee Choi , Srikanth Malla , Jiachen Li

Online scene perception and topology reasoning are critical for autonomous vehicles to understand their driving environments, particularly for mapless driving systems that endeavor to reduce reliance on costly High-Definition (HD) maps.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Muleilan Pei , Jiayao Shan , Peiliang Li , Jieqi Shi , Jing Huo , Yang Gao , Shaojie Shen

Current autonomous driving systems often favor end-to-end frameworks, which take sensor inputs like images and learn to map them into trajectory space via neural networks. Previous work has demonstrated that models can achieve better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Zebin Xing , Pengxuan Yang , Linbo Wang , Yichen Zhang , Yiming Hu , Yupeng Zheng , Junli Wang , Yinfeng Gao , Guang Li , Kun Ma , Long Chen , Zhongpu Xia , Qichao Zhang , Hangjun Ye , Dongbin Zhao

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

Autonomous race cars require perception, estimation, planning, and control modules which work together asynchronously while driving at the limit of a vehicle's handling capability. A fundamental challenge encountered in designing these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Achin Jain , Matthew O'Kelly , Pratik Chaudhari , Manfred Morari