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World models and video generation are pivotal technologies in the domain of autonomous driving, each playing a critical role in enhancing the robustness and reliability of autonomous systems. World models, which simulate the dynamics of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Ao Fu , Yi Zhou , Tao Zhou , Yi Yang , Bojun Gao , Qun Li , Guobin Wu , Ling Shao

Recent successes in autoregressive (AR) generation models, such as the GPT series in natural language processing, have motivated efforts to replicate this success in visual tasks. Some works attempt to extend this approach to autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Xiaotao Hu , Wei Yin , Mingkai Jia , Junyuan Deng , Xiaoyang Guo , Qian Zhang , Xiaoxiao Long , Ping Tan

Video generation models, as one form of world models, have emerged as one of the most exciting frontiers in AI, promising agents the ability to imagine the future by modeling the temporal evolution of complex scenes. In autonomous driving,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yang Zhou , Hao Shao , Letian Wang , Zhuofan Zong , Hongsheng Li , Steven L. Waslander

Recent advancements in generative models have provided promising solutions for synthesizing realistic driving videos, which are crucial for training autonomous driving perception models. However, existing approaches often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Wei Wu , Xi Guo , Weixuan Tang , Tingxuan Huang , Chiyu Wang , Dongyue Chen , Chenjing Ding

End-to-end autonomous driving directly generates planning trajectories from raw sensor data, yet it typically relies on costly perception supervision to extract scene information. A critical research challenge arises: constructing an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Yupeng Zheng , Pengxuan Yang , Zebin Xing , Qichao Zhang , Yuhang Zheng , Yinfeng Gao , Pengfei Li , Teng Zhang , Zhongpu Xia , Peng Jia , Dongbin Zhao

Physics-aware driving world model is essential for drive planning, out-of-distribution data synthesis, and closed-loop evaluation. However, existing methods often rely on a single diffusion model to directly map driving actions to videos,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Zhenya Yang , Zhe Liu , Yuxiang Lu , Liping Hou , Chenxuan Miao , Siyi Peng , Bailan Feng , Xiang Bai , Hengshuang Zhao

Closed-loop simulation is essential for advancing end-to-end autonomous driving systems. Contemporary sensor simulation methods, such as NeRF and 3DGS, rely predominantly on conditions closely aligned with training data distributions, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Guosheng Zhao , Chaojun Ni , Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Xueyang Zhang , Yida Wang , Guan Huang , Xinze Chen , Boyuan Wang , Youyi Zhang , Wenjun Mei , Xingang Wang

Recent transformer-based offline video instance segmentation (VIS) approaches achieve encouraging results and significantly outperform online approaches. However, their reliance on the whole video and the immense computational complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Rajat Koner , Tanveer Hannan , Suprosanna Shit , Sahand Sharifzadeh , Matthias Schubert , Thomas Seidl , Volker Tresp

In recent years, data-driven techniques have greatly advanced autonomous driving systems, but the need for rare and diverse training data remains a challenge, requiring significant investment in equipment and labor. World models, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Haiguang Wang , Daqi Liu , Hongwei Xie , Haisong Liu , Enhui Ma , Kaicheng Yu , Limin Wang , Bing Wang

Realistic and diverse traffic scenarios in large quantities are crucial for the development and validation of autonomous driving systems. However, owing to numerous difficulties in the data collection process and the reliance on intensive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Shuo Sun , Zekai Gu , Tianchen Sun , Jiawei Sun , Chengran Yuan , Yuhang Han , Dongen Li , Marcelo H. Ang

World models have demonstrated significant promise for data synthesis in autonomous driving. However, existing methods predominantly concentrate on single-modality generation, typically focusing on either multi-camera video or LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Guosheng Zhao , Yaozeng Wang , Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Tingdong Yu , Guan Huang , Yongchen Zai , Ji Jiao , Changliang Xue , Xiaole Wang , Zhen Yang , Futang Zhu , Xingang Wang

End-to-end autonomous driving has been recently seen rapid development, exerting a profound influence on both industry and academia. However, the existing work places excessive focus on ego-vehicle status as their sole learning objectives…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Rui Yu , Xianghang Zhang , Runkai Zhao , Huaicheng Yan , Meng Wang

Unstructured environments are difficult for autonomous driving. This is because various unknown obstacles are lied in drivable space without lanes, and its width and curvature change widely. In such complex environments, searching for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Joonwoo Ahn , Minsoo Kim , Jaeheung Park

World models have become crucial for autonomous driving, as they learn how scenarios evolve over time to address the long-tail challenges of the real world. However, current approaches relegate world models to limited roles: they operate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Tianze Xia , Yongkang Li , Lijun Zhou , Jingfeng Yao , Kaixin Xiong , Haiyang Sun , Bing Wang , Kun Ma , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Localization for autonomous robots in prior maps is crucial for their functionality. This paper offers a solution to this problem for indoor environments called InstaLoc, which operates on an individual lidar scan to localize it within a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Lintong Zhang , Tejaswi Digumarti , Georgi Tinchev , Maurice Fallon

This paper presents DriveTrack, a new benchmark and data generation framework for long-range keypoint tracking in real-world videos. DriveTrack is motivated by the observation that the accuracy of state-of-the-art trackers depends strongly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Arjun Balasingam , Joseph Chandler , Chenning Li , Zhoutong Zhang , Hari Balakrishnan

Current vision-language pre-training (VLP) paradigms excel at global scene understanding but struggle with instance-level reasoning due to global-only supervision. We introduce InstAP, an Instance-Aware Pre-training framework that jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Ashutosh Kumar , Rajat Saini , Jingjing Pan , Mustafa Erdogan , Mingfang Zhang , Betty Le Dem , Norimasa Kobori , Quan Kong

Scalable and reliable evaluation is increasingly critical in the end-to-end era of autonomous driving, where vision--language--action (VLA) policies directly map raw sensor streams to driving actions. Yet, current evaluation pipelines still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Chaoda Zheng , Sean Li , Jinhao Deng , Zhennan Wang , Shijia Chen , Liqiang Xiao , Ziheng Chi , Hongbin Lin , Kangjie Chen , Boyang Wang , Yu Zhang , Xianming Liu

Generating photorealistic driving videos has seen significant progress recently, but current methods largely focus on ordinary, non-adversarial scenarios. Meanwhile, efforts to generate adversarial driving scenarios often operate on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Zhiyuan Xu , Bohan Li , Huan-ang Gao , Mingju Gao , Yong Chen , Ming Liu , Chenxu Yan , Hang Zhao , Shuo Feng , Hao Zhao

Autonomous driving promises transformative improvements to transportation, but building systems capable of safely navigating the unstructured complexity of real-world scenarios remains challenging. A critical problem lies in effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Anthony Hu , Lloyd Russell , Hudson Yeo , Zak Murez , George Fedoseev , Alex Kendall , Jamie Shotton , Gianluca Corrado