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Generating safety-critical scenarios in high-fidelity simulations offers a promising and cost-effective approach for efficient testing of autonomous vehicles. Existing methods typically rely on manipulating a single vehicle's trajectory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Jiawei Wang , Xintao Yan , Yao Mu , Haowei Sun , Zhong Cao , Henry X. Liu

Due to the complex and changing interactions in dynamic scenarios, motion forecasting is a challenging problem in autonomous driving. Most existing works exploit static road graphs to characterize scenarios and are limited in modeling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Xing Gao , Xiaogang Jia , Yikang Li , Hongkai Xiong

Closed-loop evaluation of autonomous-driving policies requires interactive simulation beyond log replay. However, existing generative world models often degrade in closed loop due to (i) history-free initialization that mismatches policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chaokang Jiang , Desen Zhou , Jiuming Liu , Kevin Li Sun

We introduce nested diffusion models, an efficient and powerful hierarchical generative framework that substantially enhances the generation quality of diffusion models, particularly for images of complex scenes. Our approach employs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xiao Zhang , Ruoxi Jiang , Rebecca Willett , Michael Maire

Recent advancements in driving world models enable controllable generation of high-quality RGB videos or multimodal videos. Existing methods primarily focus on metrics related to generation quality and controllability. However, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kai Zeng , Zhanqian Wu , Kaixin Xiong , Xiaobao Wei , Xiangyu Guo , Zhenxin Zhu , Kalok Ho , Lijun Zhou , Bohan Zeng , Ming Lu , Haiyang Sun , Bing Wang , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Wentao Zhang

Accurate trajectory prediction and motion planning are crucial for autonomous driving systems to navigate safely in complex, interactive environments characterized by multimodal uncertainties. However, current generation-then-evaluation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ruiguo Zhong , Ruoyu Yao , Pei Liu , Xiaolong Chen , Rui Yang , Jun Ma

Generating safety-critical driving scenarios is crucial for evaluating and improving autonomous driving systems, but long-tail risky situations are rarely observed in real-world data and difficult to specify through manual scenario design.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Hongyi Lin , Wenxiu Shi , Heye Huang , Dingyi Zhuang , Song Zhang , Yang Liu , Xiaobo Qu , Jinhua Zhao

This paper proposes an SVM Enhanced Trajectory Planner for dynamic scenes, typically those encountered in on road settings. Frenet frame based trajectory generation is popular in the context of autonomous driving both in research and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Unni Krishnan R Nair , Nivedita Rufus , Vashist Madiraju , K Madhava Krishna

The acquisition of large-scale, high-quality data is a resource-intensive and time-consuming endeavor. Compared to conventional Data Augmentation (DA) techniques (e.g. cropping and rotation), exploiting prevailing diffusion models for data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yunxiang Fu , Chaoqi Chen , Yu Qiao , Yizhou Yu

Understanding and modeling lighting effects are fundamental tasks in computer vision and graphics. Classic physically-based rendering (PBR) accurately simulates the light transport, but relies on precise scene representations--explicit 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ruofan Liang , Zan Gojcic , Huan Ling , Jacob Munkberg , Jon Hasselgren , Zhi-Hao Lin , Jun Gao , Alexander Keller , Nandita Vijaykumar , Sanja Fidler , Zian Wang

Text-conditioned image generation has made significant progress in recent years with generative adversarial networks and more recently, diffusion models. While diffusion models conditioned on text prompts have produced impressive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Azade Farshad , Yousef Yeganeh , Yu Chi , Chengzhi Shen , Björn Ommer , Nassir Navab

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

The generation of realistic and diverse traffic scenarios in simulation is essential for developing and evaluating autonomous driving systems. However, most simulation frameworks rely on rule-based or simplified models for scene generation,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jiaguo Tian , Zhengbang Zhu , Shenyu Zhang , Li Xu , Bo Zheng , Xu Liu , Weiji Peng , Shizeng Yao , Weinan Zhang

Vector graphics, known for their scalability and user-friendliness, provide a unique approach to visual content compared to traditional pixel-based images. Animation of these graphics, driven by the motion of their elements, offers enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Wenshuo Gao , Xicheng Lan , Luyao Zhang , Shuai Yang

End-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving (AD) models require diverse, high-quality data to perform well across various driving scenarios. However, collecting large-scale real-world data is expensive and time-consuming, making high-fidelity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Junhao Ge , Zuhong Liu , Longteng Fan , Yifan Jiang , Jiaqi Su , Yiming Li , Zhejun Zhang , Siheng Chen

The completion, extension, and generation of 3D semantic scenes are an interrelated set of capabilities that are useful for robotic navigation and exploration. Existing approaches seek to decouple these problems and solve them one-off.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xujia Zhang , Brendan Crowe , Christoffer Heckman

Previous Vision-Language-Action models face critical limitations in navigation: scarce, diverse data from labor-intensive collection and static representations that fail to capture temporal dynamics and physical laws. We propose NavDreamer,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Xijie Huang , Weiqi Gai , Tianyue Wu , Congyu Wang , Zhiyang Liu , Xin Zhou , Yuze Wu , Fei Gao

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

With the widespread usage of VR devices and contents, demands for 3D scene generation techniques become more popular. Existing 3D scene generation models, however, limit the target scene to specific domain, primarily due to their training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Jaeyoung Chung , Suyoung Lee , Hyeongjin Nam , Jaerin Lee , Kyoung Mu Lee

Diffusion models emerged as a leading approach in text-to-image generation, producing high-quality images from textual descriptions. However, attempting to achieve detailed control to get a desired image solely through text remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Pablo Domingo-Gregorio , Javier Ruiz-Hidalgo