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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

Multimodal generative models that can understand and generate across multiple modalities are dominated by autoregressive (AR) approaches, which process tokens sequentially from left to right, or top to bottom. These models jointly handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Alexander Swerdlow , Mihir Prabhudesai , Siddharth Gandhi , Deepak Pathak , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Predicting human gaze scanpaths is crucial for understanding visual attention, with applications in human-computer interaction, autonomous systems, and cognitive robotics. While deep learning models have advanced scanpath prediction, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Giuseppe Cartella , Vittorio Cuculo , Alessandro D'Amelio , Marcella Cornia , Giuseppe Boccignone , Rita Cucchiara

Diffusion models have gained tremendous success in text-to-image generation, yet still lag behind with visual understanding tasks, an area dominated by autoregressive vision-language models. We propose a large-scale and fully end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zijie Li , Henry Li , Yichun Shi , Amir Barati Farimani , Yuval Kluger , Linjie Yang , Peng Wang

Diffusion-based motion planners are becoming popular due to their well-established performance improvements, stemming from sample diversity and the ease of incorporating new constraints directly during inference. However, a primary…

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

Ill-posed imaging inverse problems remain challenging due to the ambiguity in mapping degraded observations to clean images. Diffusion-based generative priors have recently shown promise, but typically rely on computationally intensive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Ayush Varshney , Katherine L. Bouman , Berthy T. Feng

A self-driving vehicle must understand its environment to determine the appropriate action. Traditional autonomy systems rely on object detection to find the agents in the scene. However, object detection assumes a discrete set of objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Sourav Biswas , Sergio Casas , Quinlan Sykora , Ben Agro , Abbas Sadat , Raquel Urtasun

Safe trajectory planning in complex environments must balance stringent collision avoidance with real-time efficiency, which is a long-standing challenge in robotics. In this work, we present a diffusion-based trajectory planning framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Wule Mao , Zhouheng Li , Yunhao Luo , Yilun Du , Lei Xie

The feasibility of collecting a large amount of expert demonstrations has inspired growing research interests in learning-to-drive settings, where models learn by imitating the driving behaviour from experts. However, exclusively relying on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Jonathan Francis , Bingqing Chen , Weiran Yao , Eric Nyberg , Jean Oh

LiDAR sensors are widely used in autonomous driving due to the reliable 3D spatial information. However, the data of LiDAR is sparse and the frequency of LiDAR is lower than that of cameras. To generate denser point clouds spatially and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Xudong Huang , Chunyu Lin , Haojie Liu , Lang Nie , Yao Zhao

Diffusion models have made significant strides in image generation, mastering tasks such as unconditional image synthesis, text-image translation, and image-to-image conversions. However, their capability falls short in the realm of video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Gaurav Shrivastava , Abhinav Shrivastava

Trajectory prediction methods have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in capturing complex motion patterns. However, existing methods rely on global state assumptions, suffer from insufficient belief inference under partial observability,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yanping Wu , Ji Zhang , Hao Chen , Edmond S. L. Ho , Chongfeng Wei

Diffusion models have recently shown promise in time series forecasting, particularly for probabilistic predictions. However, they often fail to achieve state-of-the-art point estimation performance compared to regression-based methods.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Hang Ding , Xue Wang , Tian Zhou , Tao Yao

With the rapid growth of the low-altitude economy, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become key platforms for measurement and tracking in intelligent patrol systems. However, in GNSS-denied environments, localization schemes that rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Tao Liu , Kan Ren , Qian Chen

Generative models have advanced significantly in realistic image synthesis, with diffusion models excelling in quality and stability. Recent multi-view diffusion models improve 3D-aware street view generation, but they struggle to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Ji Li , Zhiwei Li , Shihao Li , Zhenjiang Yu , Boyang Wang , Haiou Liu

Monocular depth estimation is a challenging task that predicts the pixel-wise depth from a single 2D image. Current methods typically model this problem as a regression or classification task. We propose DiffusionDepth, a new approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Yiqun Duan , Xianda Guo , Zheng Zhu

Novel View Synthesis (NVS) for street scenes play a critical role in the autonomous driving simulation. The current mainstream technique to achieve it is neural rendering, such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zhongrui Yu , Haoran Wang , Jinze Yang , Hanzhang Wang , Zeke Xie , Yunfeng Cai , Jiale Cao , Zhong Ji , Mingming Sun

Limited by the encoder-decoder architecture, learning-based edge detectors usually have difficulty predicting edge maps that satisfy both correctness and crispness. With the recent success of the diffusion probabilistic model (DPM), we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Yunfan Ye , Kai Xu , Yuhang Huang , Renjiao Yi , Zhiping Cai

Predicting future trajectories of traffic agents in highly interactive environments is an essential and challenging problem for the safe operation of autonomous driving systems. On the basis of the fact that self-driving vehicles are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Chiho Choi , Joon Hee Choi , Jiachen Li , Srikanth Malla