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Perception and planning under occlusion is essential for safety-critical tasks. Occlusion-aware planning often requires communicating the information of the occluded object to the ego agent for safe navigation. However, communicating rich…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Anshul Nayak , Azim Eskandarian

Reasoning about potential occlusions is essential for robots to efficiently predict whether an object exists in an environment. Though existing work shows that a robot with active perception can achieve various tasks, it is still unclear if…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Mengdi Li , Cornelius Weber , Matthias Kerzel , Jae Hee Lee , Zheni Zeng , Zhiyuan Liu , Stefan Wermter

Multi-object tracking (MOT) involves analyzing object trajectories and counting the number of objects in video sequences. However, 2D MOT faces challenges due to positional cost confusion arising from partial occlusion. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chunjiang Li , Jianbo Ma , Li Shen , Yanru Chen , Liangyin Chen

In autonomous navigation of mobile robots, sensors suffer from massive occlusion in cluttered environments, leaving significant amount of space unknown during planning. In practice, treating the unknown space in optimistic or pessimistic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Lizi Wang , Hongkai Ye , Qianhao Wang , Yuman Gao , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

We propose a novel diffusion-based image generation method called the observation-guided diffusion probabilistic model (OGDM), which effectively addresses the tradeoff between quality control and fast sampling. Our approach reestablishes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Junoh Kang , Jinyoung Choi , Sungik Choi , Bohyung Han

Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) is a crucial computer vision task that aims to predict the bounding boxes and identities of objects simultaneously. While state-of-the-art methods have made remarkable progress by jointly optimizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Yukun Su , Ruizhou Sun , Xin Shu , Yu Zhang , Qingyao Wu

Pedestrian detection is a critical task in autonomous driving, aimed at enhancing safety and reducing risks on the road. Over recent years, significant advancements have been made in improving detection performance. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Melo Castillo Angie Nataly , Martin Serrano Sergio , Salinas Carlota , Sotelo Miguel Angel

Multiple pedestrian tracking is crucial for enhancing safety and efficiency in intelligent transport and autonomous driving systems by predicting movements and enabling adaptive decision-making in dynamic environments. It optimizes traffic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jianjun Gao , Yi Wang , Kim-Hui Yap , Kratika Garg , Boon Siew Han

Occlusion-aware prediction remains a critical challenge in autonomous driving due to the inherent uncertainty of unobserved regions. Existing approaches either overestimate risk based on reachable states or struggle to predict accurate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jie Jia , Yaofeng Su , Zeyu Bao , Yun Hong , Bingzhao Gao , Zhongxue Gan , Wenchao Ding

Understanding and predicting pedestrian crossing behavioral intention is crucial for the driving safety of autonomous vehicles. Nonetheless, challenges emerge when using promising images or environmental context masks to extract various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Chen Xie , Ciyun Lin , Xiaoyu Zheng , Bowen Gong , Antonio M. López

Trajectory prediction is central to the safe and seamless operation of autonomous vehicles (AVs). In deployment, however, prediction models inevitably face distribution shifts between training data and real-world conditions, where rare or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Tongfei Guo , Lili Su

Accurate pedestrian trajectory prediction is crucial for ensuring safety and efficiency in autonomous driving and human-robot interaction scenarios. Earlier studies primarily utilized sufficient observational data to predict future…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yuhao Luo , Yuang Zhang , Kehua Chen , Xinyu Zheng , Shucheng Zhang , Sikai Chen , Yinhai Wang

Occluded traffic agents pose a significant challenge for autonomous vehicles, as hidden pedestrians or vehicles can appear unexpectedly, yet this problem remains understudied. Existing learning-based methods, while capable of inferring the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Anna Rothenhäusler , Markus Mazzola , Andreas Look , Raghu Rajan , Joschka Bödecker

Applications of diffusion models for visual tasks have been quite noteworthy. This paper targets making classification models more robust to occlusions for the task of object recognition by proposing a pipeline that utilizes a frozen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Rupayan Mallick , Sibo Dong , Nataniel Ruiz , Sarah Adel Bargal

Autonomous vehicles must reason about spatial occlusions in urban environments to ensure safety without being overly cautious. Prior work explored occlusion inference from observed social behaviors of road agents, hence treating people as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Masha Itkina , Ye-Ji Mun , Katherine Driggs-Campbell , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Multiple object tracking (MOT) tends to become more challenging when severe occlusions occur. In this paper, we analyze the limitations of traditional Convolutional Neural Network-based methods and Transformer-based methods in handling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Teng Fu , Xiaocong Wang , Haiyang Yu , Ke Niu , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) have emerged as one of the most promising paradigms for generative modeling over discrete domains. It is known that MDMs effectively train to decode tokens in a random order, and that this ordering has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Prateek Garg , Bhavya Kohli , Sunita Sarawagi

Human intention prediction is a growing area of research where an activity in a video has to be anticipated by a vision-based system. To this end, the model creates a representation of the past, and subsequently, it produces future…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Nada Osman , Guglielmo Camporese , Lamberto Ballan

Environment perception is the task for intelligent vehicles on which all subsequent steps rely. A key part of perception is to safely detect other road users such as vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists. With modern deep learning techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Florian Kraus , Klaus Dietmayer

Autonomous vehicles must be capable of handling the occlusion of the environment to ensure safe and efficient driving. In urban environment, occlusion often arises due to other vehicles obscuring the perception of the ego vehicle. Since the…

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