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Reasoning over visual data is a desirable capability for robotics and vision-based applications. Such reasoning enables forecasting of the next events or actions in videos. In recent years, various models have been developed based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Bingbin Liu , Ehsan Adeli , Zhangjie Cao , Kuan-Hui Lee , Abhijeet Shenoi , Adrien Gaidon , Juan Carlos Niebles

Pedestrian intention prediction is essential for autonomous driving in complex urban environments. Conventional approaches depend on supervised learning over frame sequences and require extensive retraining to adapt to new scenarios. Here,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Pallavi Zambare , Venkata Nikhil Thanikella , Ying Liu

Recent advancements in autonomous driving (AD) have explored the use of vision-language models (VLMs) within visual question answering (VQA) frameworks for direct driving decision-making. However, these approaches often depend on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xin Hu , Taotao Jing , Renran Tian , Zhengming Ding

Improving the effectiveness of human-robot interaction requires social robots to accurately infer human goals through robust intention understanding. This challenge is particularly critical in multimodal settings, where agents must…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hamed Rahimi , Clemence Grislain , Adrien Jacquet Cretides , Olivier Sigaud , Mohamed Chetouani

Recent advancements in predicting pedestrian crossing intentions for Autonomous Vehicles using Computer Vision and Deep Neural Networks are promising. However, the black-box nature of DNNs poses challenges in understanding how the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Mohsen Azarmi , Mahdi Rezaei , He Wang , Ali Arabian

Autonomous driving systems remain brittle in rare, ambiguous, and out-of-distribution scenarios, where human driver succeed through contextual reasoning. Shared autonomy has emerged as a promising approach to mitigate such failures by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Phat Nguyen , Erfan Aasi , Shiva Sreeram , Guy Rosman , Andrew Silva , Sertac Karaman , Daniela Rus

Numerous car accidents are caused by improper driving maneuvers. Serious injuries are however avoidable if such driving maneuvers are detected beforehand and the driver is assisted accordingly. In fact, various recent research has focused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Yao Rong , Zeynep Akata , Enkelejda Kasneci

Autonomous vehicles must negotiate with pedestrians in ways that are both safe and socially compliant. We present an interaction-aware model predictive decision-making (IAMPDM) framework that integrates a gap-acceptance-inspired intention…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Balint Varga , Thomas Brand , Marcus Schmitz , Ehsan Hashemi

Rapid advancements in driver-assistance technology will lead to the integration of fully autonomous vehicles on our roads that will interact with other road users. To address the problem that driverless vehicles make interaction through eye…

Accurately predicting human behaviors is crucial for mobile robots operating in human-populated environments. While prior research primarily focuses on predicting actions in single-human scenarios from an egocentric view, several robotic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Utsav Panchal , Yuchen Liu , Luigi Palmieri , Ilche Georgievski , Marco Aiello

While most prior research has focused on improving the precision of multimodal trajectory predictions, the explicit modeling of multimodal behavioral intentions (e.g., yielding, overtaking) remains relatively underexplored. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Jiawei Sun , Xibin Yue , Jiahui Li , Tianle Shen , Chengran Yuan , Shuo Sun , Sheng Guo , Quanyun Zhou , Marcelo H Ang

Accurate prediction of pedestrian crossing behaviors by autonomous vehicles can significantly improve traffic safety. Existing approaches often model pedestrian behaviors using trajectories or poses but do not offer a deeper semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Yu Yao , Ella Atkins , Matthew Johnson Roberson , Ram Vasudevan , Xiaoxiao Du

Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently emerged as powerful representation learning systems that align visual observations with natural language concepts, offering new opportunities for semantic reasoning in safety-critical autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ross Greer , Maitrayee Keskar , Angel Martinez-Sanchez , Parthib Roy , Shashank Shriram , Mohan Trivedi

Advanced perception and path planning are at the core for any self-driving vehicle. Autonomous vehicles need to understand the scene and intentions of other road users for safe motion planning. For urban use cases it is very important to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Adithya Ranga , Filippo Giruzzi , Jagdish Bhanushali , Emilie Wirbel , Patrick Pérez , Tuan-Hung Vu , Xavier Perrotton

Long-term action anticipation (LTA) aims to predict future actions over an extended period. Previous approaches primarily focus on learning exclusively from video data but lack prior knowledge. Recent researches leverage large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Congqi Cao , Lanshu Hu , Yating Yu , Yanning Zhang

Intention prediction is a crucial task for Autonomous Driving (AD). Due to the variety of size and layout of intersections, it is challenging to predict intention of human driver at different intersections, especially unseen and irregular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Fei Li , Xiangxu Li , Jun Luo , Shiwei Fan , Hongbo Zhang

Autonomous driving systems depend on on models that can reason about high-level scene contexts and accurately predict the dynamics of their surrounding environment. Vision- Language Models (VLMs) have recently emerged as promising tools for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Stefan Englmeier , Katharina Winter , Fabian B. Flohr

To ensure safe driving in dynamic environments, autonomous vehicles should possess the capability to accurately predict lane change intentions of surrounding vehicles in advance and forecast their future trajectories. Existing motion…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Mingxing Peng , Xusen Guo , Xianda Chen , Meixin Zhu , Kehua Chen

Accurately predicting the trajectory of surrounding vehicles is a critical challenge for autonomous vehicles. In complex traffic scenarios, there are two significant issues with the current autonomous driving system: the cognitive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Wen Wei , Jiankun Wang

The advancement of socially-aware autonomous vehicles hinges on precise modeling of human behavior. Within this broad paradigm, the specific challenge lies in accurately predicting pedestrian's trajectory and intention. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Farzeen Munir , Tomasz Piotr Kucner