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Traffic microsimulators are widely used to evaluate road network performance under various ``what-if" conditions. However, the behavior models controlling the actions of the actors are overly simplistic and fails to capture realistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yash Ranjan , Rahul Sengupta , Anand Rangarajan , Sanjay Ranka

Simulation plays a crucial role in the development of autonomous vehicles (AVs) due to the potential risks associated with real-world testing. Although significant progress has been made in the visual aspects of simulators, generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Wenhao Ding , Yulong Cao , Ding Zhao , Chaowei Xiao , Marco Pavone

Driving simulation plays a crucial role in developing reliable driving agents by providing controlled, evaluative environments. To enable meaningful assessments, a high-quality driving simulator must satisfy several key requirements:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Junzhe Jiang , Nan Song , Jingyu Li , Xiatian Zhu , Li Zhang

Enhancing simulation environments to replicate real-world driver behavior, i.e., more humanlike sim agents, is essential for developing autonomous vehicle technology. In the context of highway merging, previous works have studied the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Dustin Holley , Jovin D'sa , Hossein Nourkhiz Mahjoub , Gibran Ali

SLEDGE is the first generative simulator for vehicle motion planning trained on real-world driving logs. Its core component is a learned model that is able to generate agent bounding boxes and lane graphs. The model's outputs serve as an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Kashyap Chitta , Daniel Dauner , Andreas Geiger

Traffic intersections are important scenes that can be seen almost everywhere in the traffic system. Currently, most simulation methods perform well at highways and urban traffic networks. In intersection scenarios, the challenge lies in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Pei Lv , Xinming Pei , Xinyu Ren , Yuzhen Zhang , Chaochao Li , Mingliang Xu

Realistic and controllable traffic simulation is a core capability that is necessary to accelerate autonomous vehicle (AV) development. However, current approaches for controlling learning-based traffic models require significant domain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Ziyuan Zhong , Davis Rempe , Yuxiao Chen , Boris Ivanovic , Yulong Cao , Danfei Xu , Marco Pavone , Baishakhi Ray

Realistic scene-level multi-agent motion simulations are crucial for developing and evaluating self-driving algorithms. However, most existing works focus on generating trajectories for a certain single agent type, and typically ignore the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Zhiming Guo , Xing Gao , Jianlan Zhou , Xinyu Cai , Botian Shi

A realistic long-term microscopic traffic simulator is necessary for understanding how microscopic changes affect traffic patterns at a larger scale. Traditional simulators that model human driving behavior with heuristic rules often fail…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Ke Guo , Wei Jing , Lingping Gao , Weiwei Liu , Weizi Li , Jia Pan

Simulation plays a key role in scaling robot learning and validating policies, but constructing simulations remains a labor-intensive process. This paper introduces ReGen, a generative simulation framework that automates simulation design…

Trajectory prediction module in an autonomous driving system is crucial for the decision-making and safety of the autonomous agent car and its surroundings. This work presents a novel scheme called AiGem (Agent-Interaction Graph Embedding)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Jilan Samiuddin , Benoit Boulet , Di Wu

Traffic simulation is a great tool to demonstrate complex traffic structures which can be extremely useful for the planning, development, and management of road traffic networks. Current traffic simulators offer limited features when it…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Sifatul Mostafi , Taghreed Alghamdi , Khalid Elgazzar

Advances in video generation have significantly improved the realism and quality of created scenes. This has fueled interest in developing intuitive tools that let users leverage video generation as world simulators. Text-to-video (T2V)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Zuhao Liu , Aleksandar Yanev , Ahmad Mahmood , Ivan Nikolov , Saman Motamed , Wei-Shi Zheng , Xi Wang , Lei Sun , Luc Van Gool , Danda Pani Paudel

Vehicular traffic is a classical example of a multi-agent system in which autonomous drivers operate in a shared environment. The article provides an overview of the state-of-the-art in microscopic traffic modeling and the implications for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-10-26 Arne Kesting , Martin Treiber , Dirk Helbing

Autonomous driving system development is critically dependent on the ability to replay complex and diverse traffic scenarios in simulation. In such scenarios, the ability to accurately simulate the vehicle sensors such as cameras, lidar or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Zhenpei Yang , Yuning Chai , Dragomir Anguelov , Yin Zhou , Pei Sun , Dumitru Erhan , Sean Rafferty , Henrik Kretzschmar

Simulating realistic behaviors of traffic agents is pivotal for efficiently validating the safety of autonomous driving systems. Existing data-driven simulators primarily use an encoder-decoder architecture to encode the historical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Zikang Zhou , Haibo Hu , Xinhong Chen , Jianping Wang , Nan Guan , Kui Wu , Yung-Hui Li , Yu-Kai Huang , Chun Jason Xue

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

Realistic driving simulation requires that NPCs not only mimic natural driving behaviors but also react to the behavior of other simulated agents. Recent developments in diffusion-based scenario generation focus on creating diverse and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Yunpeng Liu , Matthew Niedoba , William Harvey , Adam Scibior , Berend Zwartsenberg , Frank Wood

Realistic and interactive scene simulation is a key prerequisite for autonomous vehicle (AV) development. In this work, we present SceneDiffuser, a scene-level diffusion prior designed for traffic simulation. It offers a unified framework…

For a foreseeable future, autonomous vehicles (AVs) will operate in traffic together with human-driven vehicles. Their planning and control systems need extensive testing, including early-stage testing in simulations where the interactions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Ran Tian , Nan Li , Ilya Kolmanovsky , Yildiray Yildiz , Anouck Girard