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Expressway video anomaly detection is essential for safety management. However, identifying anomalies across diverse scenes remains challenging, particularly for far-field targets exhibiting subtle abnormal vehicle motions. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Xiaowei Mao , Bowen Sui , Weijie Zhang , Yawen Yang , Shengnan Guo , Shilong Zhao , Jiaqi Lin , Tingrui Wu , Youfang Lin , Huaiyu Wa

The evolution of autonomous driving towards full automation demands robust interactive capabilities; however, the development of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models is constrained by the sparsity of interactive scenarios and inadequate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Haojie Feng , Peizhi Zhang , Mengjie Tian , Xinrui Zhang , Zhuoren Li , Junpeng Huang , Xiurong Wang , Junfan Zhu , Jianzhou Wang , Dongxiao Yin , Lu Xiong

Over the last year, significant advancements have been made in the realms of large language models (LLMs) and multi-modal large language models (MLLMs), particularly in their application to autonomous driving. These models have showcased…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xiangrui Kong , Thomas Braunl , Marco Fahmi , Yue Wang

Recent advancements in large vision language models (VLMs) tailored for autonomous driving (AD) have shown strong scene understanding and reasoning capabilities, making them undeniable candidates for end-to-end driving systems. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Shuo Xing , Hongyuan Hua , Xiangbo Gao , Shenzhe Zhu , Renjie Li , Kexin Tian , Xiaopeng Li , Heng Huang , Tianbao Yang , Zhangyang Wang , Yang Zhou , Huaxiu Yao , Zhengzhong Tu

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous driving has attracted growing interest for their strong reasoning and semantic understanding abilities, which are essential for handling complex decision-making and long-tail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Thomas Monninger , Shaoyuan Xie , Qi Alfred Chen , Sihao Ding

Recent advances in end-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving have been enabled by training on diverse large-scale driving datasets, yet autonomous driving models still struggle in out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios. The COOOL benchmark targets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Shingo Yokoi , Kento Sasaki , Yu Yamaguchi

The integration of electric vehicles (EVs) into smart grids presents unique opportunities to enhance both transportation systems and energy networks. However, ensuring safe and interpretable interactions between drivers, vehicles, and the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Jean Douglas Carvalho , Hugo Kenji , Ahmad Mohammad Saber , Glaucia Melo , Max Mauro Dias Santos , Deepa Kundur

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for solving the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task in autonomous driving by integrating Vision-Language Models (VLMs) with continual learning. In autonomous driving, VQA plays a vital role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yuxin Lin , Mengshi Qi , Liang Liu , Huadong Ma

Autonomous driving heavily relies on accurate and robust spatial perception. Many failures arise from inaccuracies and instability, especially in long-tail scenarios and complex interactions. However, current vision-language models are weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jianhua Han , Meng Tian , Jiangtong Zhu , Fan He , Huixin Zhang , Sitong Guo , Dechang Zhu , Hao Tang , Pei Xu , Yuze Guo , Minzhe Niu , Haojie Zhu , Qichao Dong , Xuechao Yan , Siyuan Dong , Lu Hou , Qingqiu Huang , Xiaosong Jia , Hang Xu

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown satisfactory effects in many autonomous driving tasks. In this paper, MLLMs are utilized to solve joint semantic scene understanding and risk localization tasks, while only relying on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Jiaqi Fan , Jianhua Wu , Jincheng Gao , Jianhao Yu , Yafei Wang , Hongqing Chu , Bingzhao Gao

In recent years, there has been a notable increase in the development of autonomous vehicle (AV) technologies aimed at improving safety in transportation systems. While AVs have been deployed in the real-world to some extent, a full-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Shounak Sural , Naren , Ragunathan Rajkumar

Visual impairment affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide, severely limiting their ability to navigate urban environments safely and independently. While wearable assistive devices offer a promising platform for real-time hazard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Antoni Valls , Jordi Sanchez-Riera

We propose general visual inspection model using Vision-Language Model~(VLM) with few-shot images of non-defective or defective products, along with explanatory texts that serve as inspection criteria. Although existing VLM exhibit high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Shiryu Ueno , Yoshikazu Hayashi , Shunsuke Nakatsuka , Yusei Yamada , Hiroaki Aizawa , Kunihito Kato

The Large Visual-Language Models (LVLMs) have significantly advanced image understanding. Their comprehension and reasoning capabilities enable promising applications in autonomous driving scenarios. However, existing research typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Zongchuang Zhao , Haoyu Fu , Dingkang Liang , Xin Zhou , Dingyuan Zhang , Hongwei Xie , Bing Wang , Xiang Bai

Human drivers possess spatial and causal intelligence, enabling them to perceive driving scenarios, anticipate hazards, and react to dynamic environments. In contrast, autonomous vehicles lack these abilities, making it challenging to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Shucheng Huang , Freda Shi , Chen Sun , Jiaming Zhong , Minghao Ning , Yufeng Yang , Yukun Lu , Hong Wang , Amir Khajepour

Recent developments in vision language models (VLM) have shown great potential for diverse applications related to image understanding. In this study, we have explored state-of-the-art VLM models for vision-based transportation engineering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Sanjita Prajapati , Tanu Singh , Chinmay Hegde , Pranamesh Chakraborty

Visual-language reasoning, driving knowledge, and value alignment are essential for advanced autonomous driving systems. However, existing approaches largely rely on data-driven learning, making it difficult to capture the complex logic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Zhongyu Xia , Wenhao Chen , Yongtao Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Traditional autonomous driving systems often struggle to connect high-level reasoning with low-level control, leading to suboptimal and sometimes unsafe behaviors. Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), which process…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Jiawei Zhang , Xuan Yang , Taiqi Wang , Yu Yao , Aleksandr Petiushko , Bo Li

Ship detection in remote sensing imagery is a critical task with wide-ranging applications, such as maritime activity monitoring, shipping logistics, and environmental studies. However, existing methods often struggle to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Jiahao Li , Jiancheng Pan , Yuze Sun , Xiaomeng Huang

Automated vehicles promise to enhance transportation safety and efficiency. However, ensuring their reliability in real-world conditions remains challenging, particularly due to rare and unexpected situations known as edge cases. While…