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End-to-end planning has emerged as a dominant paradigm for autonomous driving, where recent models often adopt a scoring-selection framework to choose trajectories from a large set of candidates, with diffusion-based decoding showing strong…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Wenhao Yao , Xinglong Sun , Zhenxin Li , Shiyi Lan , Zi Wang , Jose M. Alvarez , Zuxuan Wu

The well-established modular autonomous driving system is decoupled into different standalone tasks, e.g. perception, prediction and planning, suffering from information loss and error accumulation across modules. In contrast, end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Wenchao Sun , Xuewu Lin , Yining Shi , Chuang Zhang , Haoran Wu , Sifa Zheng

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

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

Accurate prediction of human or vehicle trajectories with good diversity that captures their stochastic nature is an essential task for many applications. However, many trajectory prediction models produce unreasonable trajectory samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Qingze , Liu , Danrui Li , Samuel S. Sohn , Sejong Yoon , Mubbasir Kapadia , Vladimir Pavlovic

To address the challenges of sensor fusion and safety risk prediction, contemporary closed-loop autonomous driving neural networks leveraging imitation learning typically require a substantial volume of parameters and computational…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Yipin Guo , Yilin Lang , Qinyuan Ren

Offline decision-making via diffusion models often produces trajectories that are misaligned with system dynamics, limiting their reliability for control. We propose Model Predictive Diffuser (MPDiffuser), a compositional diffusion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Haldun Balim , Na Li , Yilun Du

Recently, the diffusion model has emerged as a powerful generative technique for robotic policy learning, capable of modeling multi-mode action distributions. Leveraging its capability for end-to-end autonomous driving is a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Bencheng Liao , Shaoyu Chen , Haoran Yin , Bo Jiang , Cheng Wang , Sixu Yan , Xinbang Zhang , Xiangyu Li , Ying Zhang , Qian Zhang , Xinggang Wang

Anticipating the motion of neighboring vehicles is crucial for autonomous driving, especially on congested highways where even slight motion variations can result in catastrophic collisions. An accurate prediction of a future trajectory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Fuad Hasan , Hailong Huang

In end-to-end autonomous driving, the utilization of existing sensor fusion techniques and navigational control methods for imitation learning proves inadequate in challenging situations that involve numerous dynamic agents. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Pedram Agand , Mohammad Mahdavian , Manolis Savva , Mo Chen

End-to-end autonomous driving aims to produce planning trajectories from raw sensors directly. Currently, most approaches integrate perception, prediction, and planning modules into a fully differentiable network, promising great…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Pengxuan Yang , Yupeng Zheng , Qichao Zhang , Kefei Zhu , Zebin Xing , Qiao Lin , Yun-Fu Liu , Zhiguo Su , Dongbin Zhao

End-to-end autonomous driving has emerged as a pivotal direction in the field of autonomous systems. Recent works have demonstrated impressive performance by incorporating high-level guidance signals to steer low-level trajectory planners.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zebin Xing , Yupeng Zheng , Qichao Zhang , Zhixing Ding , Pengxuan Yang , Songen Gu , Zhongpu Xia , Dongbin Zhao

End-to-end autonomous driving methods aim to directly map raw sensor inputs to future driving actions such as planned trajectories, bypassing traditional modular pipelines. While these approaches have shown promise, they often operate under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Bozhou Zhang , Nan Song , Jingyu Li , Xiatian Zhu , Jiankang Deng , Li Zhang

How should we integrate representations from complementary sensors for autonomous driving? Geometry-based fusion has shown promise for perception (e.g. object detection, motion forecasting). However, in the context of end-to-end driving, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Kashyap Chitta , Aditya Prakash , Bernhard Jaeger , Zehao Yu , Katrin Renz , Andreas Geiger

Trajectory prediction is an essential component in autonomous driving, particularly for collision avoidance systems. Considering the inherent uncertainty of the task, numerous studies have utilized generative models to produce multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Chen Liu , Shibo He , Haoyu Liu , Jiming Chen

Diffusion models are a powerful tool for probabilistic forecasting, yet most applications in high-dimensional complex systems predict future states individually. This approach struggles to model complex temporal dependencies and fails to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Salva Rühling Cachay , Miika Aittala , Karsten Kreis , Noah Brenowitz , Arash Vahdat , Morteza Mardani , Rose Yu

Current autonomous driving systems are composed of a perception system and a decision system. Both of them are divided into multiple subsystems built up with lots of human heuristics. An end-to-end approach might clean up the system and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Jianyu Chen , Zhuo Xu , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Automated parking is a critical feature of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), where accurate trajectory prediction is essential to bridge perception and planning modules. Despite its significance, research in this domain remains…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Jiarong Wei , Niclas Vödisch , Anna Rehr , Christian Feist , Abhinav Valada

End-to-end autonomous driving has been recently seen rapid development, exerting a profound influence on both industry and academia. However, the existing work places excessive focus on ego-vehicle status as their sole learning objectives…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Rui Yu , Xianghang Zhang , Runkai Zhao , Huaicheng Yan , Meng Wang

This paper introduces TopoDiffuser, a diffusion-based framework for multimodal trajectory prediction that incorporates topometric maps to generate accurate, diverse, and road-compliant future motion forecasts. By embedding structural cues…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Zehui Xu , Junhui Wang , Yongliang Shi , Chao Gao , Guyue Zhou