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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

Crash detection from video feeds is a critical problem in intelligent transportation systems. Recent developments in large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) have transformed how we process, reason about, and summarize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Sanjeda Akter , Ibne Farabi Shihab , Anuj Sharma

End-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving methods still struggle to make correct decisions in interactive closed-loop evaluation due to limited causal reasoning capability. Current methods attempt to leverage the powerful understanding and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Haoyu Fu , Diankun Zhang , Zongchuang Zhao , Jianfeng Cui , Dingkang Liang , Chong Zhang , Dingyuan Zhang , Hongwei Xie , Bing Wang , Xiang Bai

Recent advancements in video large multimodal models (LMMs) have significantly improved their video understanding and reasoning capabilities. However, their performance drops on out-of-distribution (OOD) tasks that are underrepresented in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Kangsan Kim , Geon Park , Youngwan Lee , Woongyeong Yeo , Sung Ju Hwang

Building models that comprehends videos and responds specific user instructions is a practical and challenging topic, as it requires mastery of both vision understanding and knowledge reasoning. Compared to language and image modalities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Ji Qi , Kaixuan Ji , Jifan Yu , Duokang Wang , Bin Xu , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

The increasing rate of road accidents worldwide results not only in significant loss of life but also imposes billions financial burdens on societies. Current research in traffic crash frequency modeling and analysis has predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Zhiwen Fan , Pu Wang , Yang Zhao , Yibo Zhao , Boris Ivanovic , Zhangyang Wang , Marco Pavone , Hao Frank Yang

A primary hurdle of autonomous driving in urban environments is understanding complex and long-tail scenarios, such as challenging road conditions and delicate human behaviors. We introduce DriveVLM, an autonomous driving system leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Xiaoyu Tian , Junru Gu , Bailin Li , Yicheng Liu , Yang Wang , Zhiyong Zhao , Kun Zhan , Peng Jia , Xianpeng Lang , Hang Zhao

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have shown strong capabilities in understanding and analyzing visual scenes across various domains. However, in the context of autonomous driving, their limited comprehension of 3D environments restricts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Jannik Lübberstedt , Esteban Rivera , Nico Uhlemann , Markus Lienkamp

With the widespread adoption and deployment of autonomous driving, handling complex environments has become an unavoidable challenge. Due to the scarcity and diversity of extreme scenario datasets, current autonomous driving models struggle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Haibo Hu , Jiacheng Zuo , Yang Lou , Yufei Cui , Jianping Wang , Nan Guan , Jin Wang , Yung-Hui Li , Chun Jason Xue

Automated radiology report generation is key for reducing radiologist workload and improving diagnostic consistency, yet generating accurate reports for 3D medical imaging remains challenging. Existing vision-language models face two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Pengcheng Shi , Minghui Zhang , Kehan Song , Jiaqi Liu , Yun Gu , Xinglin Zhang

Autonomous Vehicle (AV) requires rigorous testing in safety-critical scenarios for safety validation, yet its validation is hindered by the high cost of field testing and the lack of fidelity in current simulations for rare safety-critical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hongyi Zhao , Shuo Wang , Qijie He , Ziyuan Pu

Accurate driving behavior recognition and reasoning are critical for autonomous driving video understanding. However, existing methods often tend to dig out the shallow causal, fail to address spurious correlations across modalities, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Tongtong Cheng , Rongzhen Li , Yixin Xiong , Tao Zhang , Jing Wang , Kai Liu

Current video understanding models excel at recognizing "what" is happening but fall short in high-level cognitive tasks like causal reasoning and future prediction, a limitation rooted in their lack of commonsense world knowledge. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 L'ea Dubois , Klaus Schmidt , Chengyu Wang , Ji-Hoon Park , Lin Wang , Santiago Munoz

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly proposed for autonomous driving tasks, yet their performance on sequential driving scenes remains poorly characterized, particularly regarding how input configurations affect their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Roberto Brusnicki , Mattia Piccinini , Johannes Betz

Current autonomous driving vehicles rely mainly on their individual sensors to understand surrounding scenes and plan for future trajectories, which can be unreliable when the sensors are malfunctioning or occluded. To address this problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Hsu-kuang Chiu , Ryo Hachiuma , Chien-Yi Wang , Stephen F. Smith , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Min-Hung Chen

Ensuring safe decision-making in autonomous vehicles remains a fundamental challenge despite rapid advances in end-to-end learning approaches. Traditional reinforcement learning (RL) methods rely on manually engineered rewards or sparse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zilin Huang , Zihao Sheng , Zhengyang Wan , Yansong Qu , Junwei You , Sicong Jiang , Sikai Chen

A reliable driving assistant should provide consistent responses based on temporally grounded reasoning derived from observed information. In this work, we investigate whether Vision-Language Models (VLMs), when applied as driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Chun-Peng Chang , Chen-Yu Wang , Holger Caesar , Alain Pagani

High infraction rates remain the primary bottleneck for end-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving, as evidenced by the low driving scores on the CARLA Leaderboard. Despite collision-related infractions being the dominant failure mode in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Alex Koran , Dimitrios Sinodinos , Hadi Hojjati , Takuya Nanri , Fangge Chen , Narges Armanfard

We present DeepSeek-OCR 2 to investigate the feasibility of a novel encoder-DeepEncoder V2-capable of dynamically reordering visual tokens upon image semantics. Conventional vision-language models (VLMs) invariably process visual tokens in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Haoran Wei , Yaofeng Sun , Yukun Li

Recent efforts to use natural language for interpretable driving focus mainly on planning, neglecting perception tasks. In this paper, we address this gap by introducing ROLISP (Risk Object Localization and Intention and Suggestion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xinpeng Ding , Jianhua Han , Hang Xu , Wei Zhang , Xiaomeng Li