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The safe trajectory planning of intelligent and connected vehicles is a key component in autonomous driving technology. Modeling the environment risk information by field is a promising and effective approach for safe trajectory planning.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zeyu Han , Mengchi Cai , Chaoyi Chen , Qingwen Meng , Guangwei Wang , Ying Liu , Qing Xu , Jianqiang Wang , Keqiang Li

Machine learning can provide efficient solutions to the complex problems encountered in autonomous driving, but ensuring their safety remains a challenge. A number of authors have attempted to address this issue, but there are few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Jaeyoung Lee , Aravind Balakrishnan , Ashish Gaurav , Krzysztof Czarnecki , Sean Sedwards

How can we reliably simulate future driving scenarios under a wide range of ego driving behaviors? Recent driving world models, developed exclusively on real-world driving data composed mainly of safe expert trajectories, struggle to follow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jiazhi Yang , Kashyap Chitta , Shenyuan Gao , Long Chen , Yuqian Shao , Xiaosong Jia , Hongyang Li , Andreas Geiger , Xiangyu Yue , Li Chen

Advances in machine learning methods for computer vision tasks have led to their consideration for safety-critical applications like autonomous driving. However, effectively integrating these methods into the automotive development…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Youssef Shoeb , Azarm Nowzad , Hanno Gottschalk

Autonomous vehicles must navigate safely in complex driving environments. Imitating a single expert trajectory, as in regression-based approaches, usually does not explicitly assess the safety of the predicted trajectory. Selection-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Wenhao Yao , Zhenxin Li , Shiyi Lan , Zi Wang , Xinglong Sun , Jose M. Alvarez , Zuxuan Wu

Trajectory prediction is one of the key components of the autonomous driving software stack. Accurate prediction for the future movement of surrounding traffic participants is an important prerequisite for ensuring the driving efficiency…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Wenbo Shao , Jun Li , Hong Wang

World models have become crucial for autonomous driving, as they learn how scenarios evolve over time to address the long-tail challenges of the real world. However, current approaches relegate world models to limited roles: they operate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Tianze Xia , Yongkang Li , Lijun Zhou , Jingfeng Yao , Kaixin Xiong , Haiyang Sun , Bing Wang , Kun Ma , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are poised to redefine transportation by enhancing road safety, minimizing human error, and optimizing traffic efficiency. The success of AVs depends on their ability to interpret complex, dynamic environments…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Abolfazl Zarghani , Amirhossein Ebrahimi , Amir Malekesfandiari

Reactive collision avoidance is essential for agile robots navigating complex and dynamic environments, enabling real-time obstacle response. However, this task is inherently challenging because it requires a tight integration of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Alessandro Saviolo , Niko Picello , Jeffrey Mao , Rishabh Verma , Giuseppe Loianno

An active area of research is to increase the safety of self-driving vehicles. Although safety cannot be guarenteed completely, the capability of a vehicle to predict the future trajectories of its surrounding vehicles could help ensure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Shayan Jawed , Eya Boumaiza , Josif Grabocka , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

The Driving World Model (DWM), which focuses on predicting scene evolution during the driving process, has emerged as a promising paradigm in the pursuit of autonomous driving (AD). DWMs enable AD systems to better perceive, understand, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sifan Tu , Xin Zhou , Dingkang Liang , Xingyu Jiang , Yumeng Zhang , Xiaofan Li , Xiang Bai

Occlusion-aware prediction remains a critical challenge in autonomous driving due to the inherent uncertainty of unobserved regions. Existing approaches either overestimate risk based on reachable states or struggle to predict accurate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jie Jia , Yaofeng Su , Zeyu Bao , Yun Hong , Bingzhao Gao , Zhongxue Gan , Wenchao Ding

Vision-based navigation of autonomous vehicles primarily depends on the Deep Neural Network (DNN) based systems in which the controller obtains input from sensors/detectors, such as cameras and produces a vehicle control output, such as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Mhafuzul Islam , Mahsrur Chowdhury , Hongda Li , Hongxin Hu

The future success of the Navy will depend, in part, on artificial intelligence. In practice, many artificially intelligent algorithms, and in particular deep learning models, rely on continual learning to maintain performance in dynamic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Ari Goodman , Ryan O'Shea , Noam Hirschorn , Hubert Chrostowski

Autonomous Vehicle (AV) perception systems have advanced rapidly in recent years, providing vehicles with the ability to accurately interpret their environment. Perception systems remain susceptible to errors caused by overly-confident…

Machine learning has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling connected, automated vehicles to autonomously cruise the streets and react to unexpected situations. A key challenge, however, is to collect and select real-time and reliable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Alaa Awad Abdellatif , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini , Francesco Malandrino

To safely navigate intricate real-world scenarios, autonomous vehicles must be able to adapt to diverse road conditions and anticipate future events. World model (WM) based reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising approach by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Dechen Gao , Shuangyu Cai , Hanchu Zhou , Hang Wang , Iman Soltani , Junshan Zhang

Recent advancements in world models have revolutionized dynamic environment simulation, allowing systems to foresee future states and assess potential actions. In autonomous driving, these capabilities help vehicles anticipate the behavior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Anthony Chen , Wenzhao Zheng , Yida Wang , Xueyang Zhang , Kun Zhan , Peng Jia , Kurt Keutzer , Shanghang Zhang

Quadrotors hold significant promise for several applications such as agriculture, search and rescue, and infrastructure inspection. Achieving autonomous operation requires systems to navigate safely through complex and unfamiliar…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Jeffrey Mao , Raghuram Cauligi Srinivas , Steven Nogar , Giuseppe Loianno

Navigation and guidance of autonomous vehicles is a fundamental problem in robotics, which has attracted intensive research in recent decades. This report is mainly concerned with provable collision avoidance of multiple autonomous vehicles…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Michael Hoy