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The goal of traffic simulation is to augment a potentially limited amount of manually-driven miles that is available for testing and validation, with a much larger amount of simulated synthetic miles. The culmination of this vision would be…

Simulation is crucial for developing and evaluating autonomous vehicle (AV) systems. Recent literature builds on a new generation of generative models to synthesize highly realistic images for full-stack simulation. However, purely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zehao Zhu , Yuliang Zou , Chiyu Max Jiang , Bo Sun , Vincent Casser , Xiukun Huang , Jiahao Wang , Zhenpei Yang , Ruiqi Gao , Leonidas Guibas , Mingxing Tan , Dragomir Anguelov

Generating high-fidelity, controllable, and annotated training data is critical for autonomous driving. Existing methods typically generate a single data form directly from a coarse scene layout, which not only fails to output rich data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Bohan Li , Jiazhe Guo , Hongsi Liu , Yingshuang Zou , Yikang Ding , Xiwu Chen , Hu Zhu , Feiyang Tan , Chi Zhang , Tiancai Wang , Shuchang Zhou , Li Zhang , Xiaojuan Qi , Hao Zhao , Mu Yang , Wenjun Zeng , Xin Jin

In this paper we describe a learned method of traffic scene generation designed to simulate the output of the perception system of a self-driving car. In our "Scene Diffusion" system, inspired by latent diffusion, we use a novel combination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Ethan Pronovost , Kai Wang , Nick Roy

Training robots in simulation requires diverse 3D scenes that reflect the specific challenges of downstream tasks. However, scenes that satisfy strict task requirements, such as high-clutter environments with plausible spatial arrangement,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Nicholas Pfaff , Hongkai Dai , Sergey Zakharov , Shun Iwase , Russ Tedrake

Bird's-Eye View (BEV) Perception has received increasing attention in recent years as it provides a concise and unified spatial representation across views and benefits a diverse set of downstream driving applications. At the same time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Alexander Swerdlow , Runsheng Xu , Bolei Zhou

Realistic and diverse multi-agent driving scenes are crucial for evaluating autonomous vehicles, but safety-critical events which are essential for this task are rare and underrepresented in driving datasets. Data-driven scene generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Shihao Li , Naisheng Ye , Tianyu Li , Kashyap Chitta , Tuo An , Peng Su , Boyang Wang , Haiou Liu , Chen Lv , Hongyang Li

The generation and simulation of diverse real-world scenes have significant application value in the field of autonomous driving, especially for the corner cases. Recently, researchers have explored employing neural radiance fields or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Bin Xie , Yingfei Liu , Tiancai Wang , Jiale Cao , Xiangyu Zhang

Simulation plays a crucial role in the development of autonomous vehicles (AVs) due to the potential risks associated with real-world testing. Although significant progress has been made in the visual aspects of simulators, generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Wenhao Ding , Yulong Cao , Ding Zhao , Chaowei Xiao , Marco Pavone

Automated creation of synthetic traffic scenarios is a key part of validating the safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs). In this paper, we propose Scenario Diffusion, a novel diffusion-based architecture for generating traffic scenarios that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Ethan Pronovost , Meghana Reddy Ganesina , Noureldin Hendy , Zeyu Wang , Andres Morales , Kai Wang , Nicholas Roy

Simulation is increasingly being used for generating large labelled datasets in many machine learning problems. Recent methods have focused on adjusting simulator parameters with the goal of maximising accuracy on a validation task, usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Harkirat Singh Behl , Atılım Güneş Baydin , Ran Gal , Philip H. S. Torr , Vibhav Vineet

Synthetic data is emerging as a promising solution to the scalability issue of supervised deep learning, especially when real data are difficult to acquire or hard to annotate. Synthetic data generation, however, can itself be prohibitively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Aayush Prakash , Shoubhik Debnath , Jean-Francois Lafleche , Eric Cameracci , Gavriel State , Stan Birchfield , Marc T. Law

Microscopic traffic simulation has become an important tool for autonomous driving training and testing. Although recent data-driven approaches advance realistic behavior generation, their learning still relies primarily on a single…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Shenyu Zhang , Jiaguo Tian , Zhengbang Zhu , Shan Huang , Jucheng Yang , Weinan Zhang

We present Genesis, a unified framework for joint generation of multi-view driving videos and LiDAR sequences with spatio-temporal and cross-modal consistency. Genesis employs a two-stage architecture that integrates a DiT-based video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Xiangyu Guo , Zhanqian Wu , Kaixin Xiong , Ziyang Xu , Lijun Zhou , Gangwei Xu , Shaoqing Xu , Haiyang Sun , Bing Wang , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Using synthesized images to boost the performance of perception models is a long-standing research challenge in computer vision. It becomes more eminent in visual-centric autonomous driving systems with multi-view cameras as some long-tail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Kairui Yang , Enhui Ma , Jibin Peng , Qing Guo , Di Lin , Kaicheng Yu

With the increasing popularity of autonomous driving based on the powerful and unified bird's-eye-view (BEV) representation, a demand for high-quality and large-scale multi-view video data with accurate annotation is urgently required.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Xiaofan Li , Yifu Zhang , Xiaoqing Ye

Multi-view image generation in autonomous driving demands consistent 3D scene understanding across camera views. Most existing methods treat this problem as a 2D image set generation task, lacking explicit 3D modeling. However, we argue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Zeming Chen , Hang Zhao

Controllable generative models for images and videos have seen significant success, yet 3D scene generation, especially in unbounded scenarios like autonomous driving, remains underdeveloped. Existing methods lack flexible controllability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Ruiyuan Gao , Kai Chen , Zhihao Li , Lanqing Hong , Zhenguo Li , Qiang Xu

Large-scale labelled driving video data is essential for training autonomous driving systems. Although simulation offers scalable and fully annotated data, the domain gap between synthetic and real-world driving videos significantly limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Haonan Zhao , Yiting Wang , Jingkun Chen , Valentina Donzella , Thomas Bashford-Rogers , Kurt Debattista

Generating multi-camera street-view videos is critical for augmenting autonomous driving datasets, addressing the urgent demand for extensive and varied data. Due to the limitations in diversity and challenges in handling lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Jiachen Lu , Ze Huang , Zeyu Yang , Jiahui Zhang , Li Zhang