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A world model is essential for an agent to predict the future and plan in domains such as autonomous driving and robotics. To achieve this, recent advancements have focused on video generation, which has gained significant attention due to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Youngjoon Jeong , Junha Chun , Soonwoo Cha , Taesup Kim

World models have attracted increasing attention in autonomous driving for their ability to forecast potential future scenarios. In this paper, we propose BEVWorld, a novel framework that transforms multimodal sensor inputs into a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yumeng Zhang , Shi Gong , Kaixin Xiong , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiaofan Li , Xiao Tan , Fan Wang , Jizhou Huang , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Autonomous driving requires accurate and detailed Bird's Eye View (BEV) semantic segmentation for decision making, which is one of the most challenging tasks for high-level scene perception. Feature transformation from frontal view to BEV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Jiayu Zou , Junrui Xiao , Zheng Zhu , Junjie Huang , Guan Huang , Dalong Du , Xingang Wang

Object-centric representations are a promising path toward more systematic generalization by providing flexible abstractions upon which compositional world models can be built. Recent work on simple 2D and 3D datasets has shown that models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Thomas Kipf , Gamaleldin F. Elsayed , Aravindh Mahendran , Austin Stone , Sara Sabour , Georg Heigold , Rico Jonschkowski , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Klaus Greff

In this paper, we present BEVerse, a unified framework for 3D perception and prediction based on multi-camera systems. Unlike existing studies focusing on the improvement of single-task approaches, BEVerse features in producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Yunpeng Zhang , Zheng Zhu , Wenzhao Zheng , Junjie Huang , Guan Huang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Bird's eye view (BEV) perception is becoming increasingly important in the field of autonomous driving. It uses multi-view camera data to learn a transformer model that directly projects the perception of the road environment onto the BEV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Rui Song , Runsheng Xu , Andreas Festag , Jiaqi Ma , Alois Knoll

An accurate understanding of a self-driving vehicle's surrounding environment is crucial for its navigation system. To enhance the effectiveness of existing algorithms and facilitate further research, it is essential to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Abtin Mahyar , Hossein Motamednia , Dara Rahmati

Autonomous driving requires efficient reasoning about the Spatio-temporal nature of the semantics of the scene. Recent approaches have successfully amalgamated the traditional modular architecture of an autonomous driving stack comprising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Unnikrishnan R. Nair , Sarthak Sharma , Midhun S. Menon , Srikanth Vidapanakal

Object-centric learning aims to decompose an input image into a set of meaningful object files (slots). These latent object representations enable a variety of downstream tasks. Yet, object-centric learning struggles on real-world datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Krishnakant Singh , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Stefan Roth

Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) perception has become a foundational paradigm in autonomous driving, enabling unified spatial representations that support robust multi-sensor fusion and multi-agent collaboration. As autonomous vehicles transition…

Recent work has shown that object-centric representations can greatly help improve the accuracy of learning dynamics while also bringing interpretability. In this work, we take this idea one step further, ask the following question: "can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Sanket Gandhi , Atul , Samanyu Mahajan , Vishal Sharma , Rushil Gupta , Arnab Kumar Mondal , Parag Singla

In the field of autonomous driving, end-to-end deep learning models show great potential by learning driving decisions directly from sensor data. However, training these models requires large amounts of labeled data, which is time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Wenhao Jiang , Duo Li , Menghan Hu , Chao Ma , Ke Wang , Zhipeng Zhang

With the attention gained by camera-only 3D object detection in autonomous driving, methods based on Bird-Eye-View (BEV) representation especially derived from the forward view transformation paradigm, i.e., lift-splat-shoot (LSS), have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Weijie Ma , Jingwei Jiang , Yang Yang , Zehui Chen , Hao Chen

Most automated driving systems comprise a diverse sensor set, including several cameras, Radars, and LiDARs, ensuring a complete 360\deg coverage in near and far regions. Unlike Radar and LiDAR, which measure directly in 3D, cameras capture…

The study of object representations in computer vision has primarily focused on developing representations that are useful for image classification, object detection, or semantic segmentation as downstream tasks. In this work we aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Tejas Kulkarni , Ankush Gupta , Catalin Ionescu , Sebastian Borgeaud , Malcolm Reynolds , Andrew Zisserman , Volodymyr Mnih

The objective of this work is to learn an object-centric video representation, with the aim of improving transferability to novel tasks, i.e., tasks different from the pre-training task of action classification. To this end, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Chuhan Zhang , Ankush Gupta , Andrew Zisserman

Object-centric understanding is fundamental to human vision and required for complex reasoning. Traditional methods define slot-based bottlenecks to learn object properties explicitly, while recent self-supervised vision models like DINO…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Stefan Sylvius Wagner , Stefan Harmeling

In the field of autonomous driving and mobile robotics, there has been a significant shift in the methods used to create Bird's Eye View (BEV) representations. This shift is characterised by using transformers and learning to fuse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh , Ian Reid

Perceiving the world and forecasting its future state is a critical task for self-driving. Supervised approaches leverage annotated object labels to learn a model of the world -- traditionally with object detections and trajectory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Ben Agro , Quinlan Sykora , Sergio Casas , Thomas Gilles , Raquel Urtasun

Predicting the trajectory of an ego vehicle is a critical component of autonomous driving systems. Current state-of-the-art methods typically rely on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and sequential models to process front-view images for future…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Sushil Sharma , Aryan Singh , Ganesh Sistu , Mark Halton , Ciarán Eising