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Decision-making stands as a pivotal component in the realm of autonomous vehicles (AVs), playing a crucial role in navigating the intricacies of autonomous driving. Amidst the evolving landscape of data-driven methodologies, enhancing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Jiaqi Liu , Peng Hang , Xiaocong Zhao , Jianqiang Wang , Jian Sun

Accurate and uncertainty-aware trajectory prediction remains a core challenge for autonomous driving, driven by complex multi-agent interactions, diverse scene contexts and the inherently stochastic nature of future motion. Diffusion-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Marion Neumeier , Niklas Roßberg , Michael Botsch , Wolfgang Utschick

Safety testing serves as the fundamental pillar for the development of autonomous driving systems (ADSs). To ensure the safety of ADSs, it is paramount to generate a diverse range of safety-critical test scenarios. While existing ADS…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Haoxiang Tian , Xingshuo Han , Yuan Zhou , Guoquan Wu , An Guo , Mingfei Cheng , Shuo Li , Jun Wei , Tianwei Zhang

Designing diverse and safety-critical driving scenarios is essential for evaluating autonomous driving systems. In this paper, we propose a novel framework that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) for few-shot code generation to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yongjie Fu , Ruijian Zha , Pei Tian , Xuan Di

Research interest in end-to-end autonomous driving has surged owing to its fully differentiable design integrating modular tasks, i.e. perception, prediction and planing, which enables optimization in pursuit of the ultimate goal. Despite…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Anqing Jiang , Yu Gao , Zhigang Sun , Yiru Wang , Jijun Wang , Jinghao Chai , Qian Cao , Yuweng Heng , Hao Jiang , Yunda Dong , Zongzheng Zhang , Xianda Guo , Hao Sun , Hao Zhao

Ensuring realistic traffic dynamics is a prerequisite for simulation platforms to evaluate the reliability of self-driving systems before deployment in the real world. Because most road users are human drivers, reproducing their diverse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Wendi Li , Hao Wu , Han Gao , Bing Mao , Fengyuan Xu , Sheng Zhong

Learning to perform accurate and rich simulations of human driving behaviors from data for autonomous vehicle testing remains challenging due to human driving styles' high diversity and variance. We address this challenge by proposing a…

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

The advancement of autonomous driving technologies necessitates increasingly sophisticated methods for understanding and predicting real-world scenarios. Vision language models (VLMs) are emerging as revolutionary tools with significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Yongjie Fu , Anmol Jain , Xuan Di , Xu Chen , Zhaobin Mo

Autonomous vehicles must be comprehensively evaluated before deployed in cities and highways. However, most existing evaluation approaches for autonomous vehicles are static and lack adaptability, so they are usually inefficient in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Baiming Chen , Xiang Chen , Wu Qiong , Liang Li

Diffusion models (DMs) excel in photo-realistic image synthesis, but their adaptation to LiDAR scene generation poses a substantial hurdle. This is primarily because DMs operating in the point space struggle to preserve the curve-like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Haoxi Ran , Vitor Guizilini , Yue Wang

The ability to generate a diverse and plausible distribution of future trajectories is a critical capability for autonomous vehicle planning systems. While recent generative models have shown promise, achieving high fidelity, computational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Antonio Guillen-Perez

LiDAR scenes constitute a fundamental source for several autonomous driving applications. Despite the existence of several datasets, scenes from adverse weather conditions are rarely available. This limits the robustness of downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Andrea Matteazzi , Pascal Colling , Michael Arnold , Dietmar Tutsch

Diffusion models have demonstrated strong capabilities for modeling human-like driving behaviors in autonomous driving, but their iterative sampling process induces substantial latency, and operating directly on raw trajectory points forces…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jinhao Zhang , Wenlong Xia , Zhexuan Zhou , Haoming Song , Youmin Gong , Jie Mei

Trajectory prediction is a cornerstone in autonomous driving (AD), playing a critical role in enabling vehicles to navigate safely and efficiently in dynamic environments. To address this task, this paper presents a novel trajectory…

Simulation-based testing is crucial for validating autonomous vehicles (AVs), yet existing scenario generation methods either overfit to common driving patterns or operate in an offline, non-interactive manner that fails to expose rare,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yuewen Mei , Tong Nie , Jian Sun , Ye Tian

Road user trajectory prediction in dynamic environments is a challenging but crucial task for various applications, such as autonomous driving. One of the main challenges in this domain is the multimodal nature of future trajectories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Younwoo Choi , Ray Coden Mercurius , Soheil Mohamad Alizadeh Shabestary , Amir Rasouli

This paper uses the capabilities of latent diffusion models (LDMs) to generate realistic RGB human-object interaction scenes to guide humanoid loco-manipulation planning. To do so, we extract from the generated images both the contact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Ilyass Taouil , Haizhou Zhao , Angela Dai , Majid Khadiv

Evaluating the decision-making system is indispensable in developing autonomous vehicles, while realistic and challenging safety-critical test scenarios play a crucial role. Obtaining these scenarios is non-trivial, thanks to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Kunkun Hao , Yonggang Luo , Wen Cui , Yuqiao Bai , Jucheng Yang , Songyang Yan , Yuxi Pan , Zijiang Yang

With the advancement of autonomous driving, ensuring safety during motion planning and navigation is becoming more and more important. However, most end-to-end planning methods suffer from a lack of safety. This research addresses the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Detian Chu , Linyuan Bai , Jianuo Huang , Zhenlong Fang , Peng Zhang , Wei Kang , Haifeng Lin