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Acting in human environments is a crucial capability for general-purpose robots, necessitating a robust understanding of natural language and its application to physical tasks. This paper seeks to harness the capabilities of diffusion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jonas Bode , Raphael Memmesheimer , Sven Behnke

Visual traversability estimation is critical for autonomous navigation, but existing VLM-based methods rely on hand-crafted prompts, generalize poorly across embodiments, and output only traversability maps, leaving trajectory generation to…

For autonomous driving, traversability analysis is one of the most basic and essential tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel LiDAR-based terrain modeling approach, which could output stable, complete and accurate terrain models and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Hanzhang Xue , Hao Fu , Liang Xiao , Yiming Fan , Dawei Zhao , Bin Dai

Most existing approaches to autonomous driving fall into one of two categories: modular pipelines, that build an extensive model of the environment, and imitation learning approaches, that map images directly to control outputs. A recently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Axel Sauer , Nikolay Savinov , Andreas Geiger

Grounding a command to the visual environment is an essential ingredient for interactions between autonomous vehicles and humans. In this work, we study the problem of language grounding for autonomous vehicles, which aims to localize a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Hou Pong Chan , Mingxi Guo , Cheng-Zhong Xu

Recently, learning-based approaches show promising results in navigation tasks. However, the poor generalization capability and the simulation-reality gap prevent a wide range of applications. We consider the problem of improving the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Wenzhe Cai , Guangran Cheng , Lingyue Kong , Lu Dong , Changyin Sun

Our goal is to train a policy for autonomous driving via imitation learning that is robust enough to drive a real vehicle. We find that standard behavior cloning is insufficient for handling complex driving scenarios, even when we leverage…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Mayank Bansal , Alex Krizhevsky , Abhijit Ogale

How should representations from complementary sensors be integrated for autonomous driving? Geometry-based sensor fusion has shown great promise for perception tasks such as object detection and motion forecasting. However, for the actual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Aditya Prakash , Kashyap Chitta , Andreas Geiger

Reinforcement learning for training end-to-end autonomous driving models in closed-loop simulations is gaining growing attention. However, most simulation environments differ significantly from real-world conditions, creating a substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Chaojun Ni , Guosheng Zhao , Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Wenkang Qin , Xinze Chen , Guanghong Jia , Guan Huang , Wenjun Mei

LiDAR-based world models offer more structured and geometry-aware representations than their image-based counterparts. However, existing LiDAR world models are narrowly trained; each model excels only in the domain for which it was built.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Tianran Liu , Shengwen Zhao , Nicholas Rhinehart

Practical learning-based autonomous driving models must be capable of generalizing learned behaviors from simulated to real domains, and from training data to unseen domains with unusual image properties. In this paper, we investigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Shivam Akhauri , Laura Zheng , Tom Goldstein , Ming Lin

Autonomous driving necessitates the ability to reason about future interactions between traffic agents and to make informed evaluations for planning. This paper introduces the \textit{Gen-Drive} framework, which shifts from the traditional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zhiyu Huang , Xinshuo Weng , Maximilian Igl , Yuxiao Chen , Yulong Cao , Boris Ivanovic , Marco Pavone , Chen Lv

Foundation model-based semantic transmission has recently shown great potential in wireless image communication. However, existing methods exhibit two major limitations: (i) they overlook the varying importance of semantic components for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Fangyu Liu , Peiwen Jiang , Wenjin Wang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) dominate high-quality image generation, yet integrating representation learning with generative modeling remains a challenge. We introduce a novel generative image modeling framework that seamlessly bridges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Theodoros Kouzelis , Efstathios Karypidis , Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

The engineering community currently encounters significant challenges in the development of intelligent transportation algorithms that can be transferred from simulation to reality with minimal effort. This can be achieved by robustifying…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Chinmay Vilas Samak , Tanmay Vilas Samak , Venkat Krovi

Autonomous vehicles rely heavily upon their perception subsystems to see the environment in which they operate. Unfortunately, the effect of variable weather conditions presents a significant challenge to object detection algorithms, and…

Diffusion models have shown an impressive ability to model complex data distributions, with several key advantages over GANs, such as stable training, better coverage of the training distribution's modes, and the ability to solve inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yinbo Chen , Oliver Wang , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Xiaolong Wang , Michael Gharbi

The main challenge in learning image-conditioned robotic policies is acquiring a visual representation conducive to low-level control. Due to the high dimensionality of the image space, learning a good visual representation requires a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Albert Yu , Adeline Foote , Raymond Mooney , Roberto Martín-Martín

Deep reinforcement learning models are notoriously data hungry, yet real-world data is expensive and time consuming to obtain. The solution that many have turned to is to use simulation for training before deploying the robot in a real…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Joanne Truong , Sonia Chernova , Dhruv Batra

Deep learning-based intelligent vehicle perception has been developing prominently in recent years to provide a reliable source for motion planning and decision making in autonomous driving. A large number of powerful deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Xinyu Liu , Jinlong Li , Jin Ma , Huiming Sun , Zhigang Xu , Tianyun Zhang , Hongkai Yu