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Safety-critical traffic simulation plays a crucial role in evaluating autonomous driving systems under rare and challenging scenarios. However, existing approaches often generate unrealistic scenarios due to insufficient consideration of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Mingxing Peng , Ruoyu Yao , Xusen Guo , Yuting Xie , Xianda Chen , Jun Ma

Driving simulation plays a crucial role in developing reliable driving agents by providing controlled, evaluative environments. To enable meaningful assessments, a high-quality driving simulator must satisfy several key requirements:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Junzhe Jiang , Nan Song , Jingyu Li , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang

Diffusion models have made substantial progress in facilitating image generation and editing. As the technology matures, we see its potential in the context of driving simulations to enhance the simulated experience. In this paper, we…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Fanjun Bu , Hiroshi Yasuda

Simulation is critical for safety evaluation in autonomous driving, particularly in capturing complex interactive behaviors. However, generating realistic and controllable traffic scenarios in long-tail situations remains a significant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Haohong Lin , Xin Huang , Tung Phan-Minh , David S. Hayden , Huan Zhang , Ding Zhao , Siddhartha Srinivasa , Eric M. Wolff , Hongge Chen

Interactive decision-making is essential in applications such as autonomous driving, where the agent must infer the behavior of nearby human drivers while planning in real-time. Traditional predict-then-act frameworks are often insufficient…

Evaluating and training autonomous driving systems require diverse and scalable corner cases. However, most existing scene generation methods lack controllability, accuracy, and versatility, resulting in unsatisfactory generation results.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Sheng Wang , Ge Sun , Fulong Ma , Tianshuai Hu , Qiang Qin , Yongkang Song , Lei Zhu , Junwei Liang

Accident anticipation is essential for proactive and safe autonomous driving, where even a brief advance warning can enable critical evasive actions. However, two key challenges hinder real-world deployment: (1) noisy or degraded sensory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Xingcheng Liu , Bin Rao , Yanchen Guan , Chengyue Wang , Haicheng Liao , Jiaxun Zhang , Chengyu Lin , Meixin Zhu , Zhenning Li

Drivable Free-space prediction is a fundamental and crucial problem in autonomous driving. Recent works have addressed the problem by representing the entire non-obstacle road regions as the free-space. In contrast our aim is to estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Keshav Gupta , Tejas S. Stanley , Pranjal Paul , Arun K. Singh , K. Madhava Krishna

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

Controllable scene generation could reduce the cost of diverse data collection substantially for autonomous driving. Prior works formulate the traffic layout generation as predictive progress, either by denoising entire sequences at once or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yunsong Zhou , Naisheng Ye , William Ljungbergh , Tianyu Li , Jiazhi Yang , Zetong Yang , Hongzi Zhu , Christoffer Petersson , Hongyang Li

The exploration of high-speed movement by robots or road traffic agents is crucial for autonomous driving and navigation. Trajectory prediction at high speeds requires considering historical features and interactions with surrounding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yao Liu , Ruoyu Wang , Yuanjiang Cao , Quan Z. Sheng , Lina Yao

As the prediction horizon increases, predicting the future evolution of traffic scenes becomes increasingly difficult due to the multi-modal nature of agent motion. Most state-of-the-art (SotA) prediction models primarily focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yue Yao , Mohamed-Khalil Bouzidi , Daniel Goehring , Joerg Reichardt

Shared autonomy in driving requires anticipating human behavior, flagging risk before it becomes unavoidable, and transferring control safely and smoothly. We propose Diffusion-SAFE, a closed-loop framework built on two diffusion models: an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yunxin Fan , Monroe Kennedy

We present MotionDiffuser, a diffusion based representation for the joint distribution of future trajectories over multiple agents. Such representation has several key advantages: first, our model learns a highly multimodal distribution…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Chiyu Max Jiang , Andre Cornman , Cheolho Park , Ben Sapp , Yin Zhou , Dragomir Anguelov

Generating physically plausible human motion is crucial for applications such as character animation and virtual reality. Existing approaches often incorporate a simulator-based motion projection layer to the diffusion process to enforce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Akihisa Watanabe , Jiawei Ren , Li Siyao , Yichen Peng , Erwin Wu , Edgar Simo-Serra

Existing traffic simulation models often fall short in capturing the intricacies of real-world scenarios, particularly the interactive behaviors among multiple traffic participants, thereby limiting their utility in the evaluation and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhiyu Huang , Zixu Zhang , Ameya Vaidya , Yuxiao Chen , Chen Lv , Jaime Fernández Fisac

Motion prediction is a challenging problem in autonomous driving as it demands the system to comprehend stochastic dynamics and the multi-modal nature of real-world agent interactions. Diffusion models have recently risen to prominence, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Jiahui Li , Tianle Shen , Zekai Gu , Jiawei Sun , Chengran Yuan , Yuhang Han , Shuo Sun , Marcelo H. Ang

Safe trajectory planning in complex environments must balance stringent collision avoidance with real-time efficiency, which is a long-standing challenge in robotics. In this work, we present a diffusion-based trajectory planning framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Wule Mao , Zhouheng Li , Yunhao Luo , Yilun Du , Lei Xie

Unlike discriminative approaches in autonomous driving that predict a fixed set of candidate trajectories of the ego vehicle, generative methods, such as diffusion models, learn the underlying distribution of future motion, enabling more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Liuhan Yin , Runkun Ju , Guodong Guo , Erkang Cheng

This paper addresses the problem of generating dynamically admissible trajectories for control tasks using diffusion models, particularly in scenarios where the environment is complex and system dynamics are crucial for practical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Darshan Gadginmath , Fabio Pasqualetti