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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

Realistic and diverse multi-agent driving scenes are crucial for evaluating autonomous vehicles, but safety-critical events which are essential for this task are rare and underrepresented in driving datasets. Data-driven scene generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Shihao Li , Naisheng Ye , Tianyu Li , Kashyap Chitta , Tuo An , Peng Su , Boyang Wang , Haiou Liu , Chen Lv , Hongyang Li

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced their knowledge and generative capabilities, leading to a surge of interest in leveraging LLMs for high-quality data synthesis. However, synthetic data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Ying Zhou , Xinyao Wang , Yulei Niu , Yaojie Shen , Lexin Tang , Fan Chen , Ben He , Le Sun , Longyin Wen

Autonomous driving requires an understanding of the static environment from sensor data. Learned Bird's-Eye View (BEV) encoders are commonly used to fuse multiple inputs, and a vector decoder predicts a vectorized map representation from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Thomas Monninger , Zihan Zhang , Zhipeng Mo , Md Zafar Anwar , Steffen Staab , Sihao Ding

Automatically generating high-quality real world 3D scenes is of enormous interest for applications such as virtual reality and robotics simulation. Towards this goal, we introduce NeuralField-LDM, a generative model capable of synthesizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Seung Wook Kim , Bradley Brown , Kangxue Yin , Karsten Kreis , Katja Schwarz , Daiqing Li , Robin Rombach , Antonio Torralba , Sanja Fidler

Video diffusion techniques have advanced significantly in recent years; however, they struggle to generate realistic imagery of car crashes due to the scarcity of accident events in most driving datasets. Improving traffic safety requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Anthony Gosselin , Ge Ya Luo , Luis Lara , Florian Golemo , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Liam Paull , Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau , Christopher Pal

Ensuring the safety of autonomous vehicles requires virtual scenario-based testing, which depends on the robust evaluation and generation of safety-critical scenarios. So far, researchers have used scenario-based testing frameworks that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yuan Gao , Mattia Piccinini , Korbinian Moller , Amr Alanwar , Johannes Betz

With the increasing integration of intelligent driving functions into serial-produced vehicles, ensuring their functionality and robustness poses greater challenges. Compared to traditional road testing, scenario-based virtual testing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Li Li , Tobias Brinkmann , Till Temmen , Markus Eisenbarth , Jakob Andert

Simulation is an indispensable tool in the development and testing of autonomous vehicles (AVs), offering an efficient and safe alternative to road testing. An outstanding challenge with simulation-based testing is the generation of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Peide Huang , Wenhao Ding , Benjamin Stoler , Jonathan Francis , Bingqing Chen , Ding Zhao

Testing and validating Autonomous Vehicle (AV) performance in safety-critical and diverse scenarios is crucial before real-world deployment. However, manually creating such scenarios in simulation remains a significant and time-consuming…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Efimia Panagiotaki , Georgi Pramatarov , Lars Kunze , Daniele De Martini

Acting in cluttered environments requires predicting and avoiding collisions while still achieving precise control. Conventional optimization-based controllers can enforce physical constraints, but they struggle to produce feasible…

We propose CLAD -- a Constrained Latent Action Diffusion model for vision-language procedure planning in instructional videos. Procedure planning is the challenging task of predicting intermediate actions given a visual observation of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Lei Shi , Andreas Bulling

We investigate the utility of diffusion generative models to efficiently synthesise datasets that effectively train deep learning models for image analysis. Specifically, we propose novel $\Gamma$-distribution Latent Denoising Diffusion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 David Stojanovski , Mariana da Silva , Pablo Lamata , Arian Beqiri , Alberto Gomez

Automatic layout generation that can synthesize high-quality layouts is an important tool for graphic design in many applications. Though existing methods based on generative models such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Shang Chai , Liansheng Zhuang , Fengying Yan

With the increasing popularity of autonomous driving based on the powerful and unified bird's-eye-view (BEV) representation, a demand for high-quality and large-scale multi-view video data with accurate annotation is urgently required.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Xiaofan Li , Yifu Zhang , Xiaoqing Ye

End-to-end autonomous driving systems based on vision-language-action (VLA) models integrate multimodal sensor inputs and language instructions to generate planning and control signals. While autoregressive large language models and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Mingwang Xu , Jiahao Cui , Feipeng Cai , Hanlin Shang , Zhihao Zhu , Shan Luan , Yifang Xu , Neng Zhang , Yaoyi Li , Jia Cai , Siyu Zhu

Multimodal generative models require a unified approach to handle both discrete data (e.g., text and code) and continuous data (e.g., image, audio, video). In this work, we propose Latent Language Modeling (LatentLM), which seamlessly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yutao Sun , Hangbo Bao , Wenhui Wang , Zhiliang Peng , Li Dong , Shaohan Huang , Jianyong Wang , Furu Wei

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for autonomous driving trajectory generation by harnessing the complementary strengths of diffusion probabilistic models (a.k.a., diffusion models) and transformers. Our proposed framework,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chen Yang , Yangfan He , Aaron Xuxiang Tian , Dong Chen , Jianhui Wang , Tianyu Shi , Arsalan Heydarian , Pei Liu

Centerline graphs, crucial for path planning in autonomous driving, are traditionally learned using deterministic methods. However, these methods often lack spatial reasoning and struggle with occluded or invisible centerlines. Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zijie Wang , Weiming Zhang , Wei Zhang , Xiao Tan , Hongxing Liu , Yaowei Wang , Guanbin Li

Service-level mobile traffic prediction for individual users is essential for network efficiency and quality of service enhancement. However, current prediction methods are limited in their adaptability across different urban environments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Shiyuan Zhang , Tong Li , Zhu Xiao , Hongyang Du , Kaibin Huang