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End-to-end autonomous driving systems powered by Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve strong performance on common driving scenarios, yet remain brittle in rare but safety-critical long-tail situations such as active construction…

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Collecting a high-quality dataset is a critical task that demands meticulous attention to detail, as overlooking certain aspects can render the entire dataset unusable. Autonomous driving challenges remain a prominent area of research,…

Optical sensors and learning algorithms for autonomous vehicles have dramatically advanced in the past few years. Nonetheless, the reliability of today's autonomous vehicles is hindered by the limited line-of-sight sensing capability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Jiaxun Cui , Hang Qiu , Dian Chen , Peter Stone , Yuke Zhu

End-to-end autonomous driving via Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models demands a precarious balance between high-fidelity trajectory planning and efficient inference. Existing paradigms typically fall short: autoregressive (AR) VLAs are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kewei Zhang , Jin Wang , Sensen Gao , Chengyue Wu , Yulong Cao , Songyang Han , Boris Ivanovic , Langechuan Liu , Marco Pavone , Song Han , Daquan Zhou , Enze Xie

Evaluating vision-language models (VLMs) in urban driving contexts remains challenging, as existing benchmarks rely on open-ended responses that are ambiguous, annotation-intensive, and inconsistent to score. This lack of standardized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Boshra Khalili , Andrew W. Smyth

With the rapid advancement of autonomous driving, deploying Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to enhance perception and decision-making has become increasingly common. However, the real-time application of VLMs is hindered by high latency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Lianming Huang , Haibo Hu , Yufei Cui , Jiacheng Zuo , Shangyu Wu , Nan Guan , Chun Jason Xue

Accurate accident anticipation remains challenging when driver cognition and dynamic road conditions are underrepresented in predictive models. In this paper, we propose CAMERA (Context-Aware Multi-modal Enhanced Risk Anticipation), a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Jiaxun Zhang , Haicheng Liao , Yumu Xie , Chengyue Wang , Yanchen Guan , Bin Rao , Zhenning Li

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and Multi-Modal Language models (MMLMs) have become prominent in autonomous driving research, as these models can provide interpretable textual reasoning and responses for end-to-end autonomous driving safety…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Akshay Gopalkrishnan , Ross Greer , Mohan Trivedi

The integration of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) into autonomous driving systems has shown promise in addressing key challenges such as learning complexity, interpretability, and common-sense reasoning. However, existing approaches often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Xuesong Chen , Linjiang Huang , Tao Ma , Rongyao Fang , Shaoshuai Shi , Hongsheng Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as promising candidates for end-to-end autonomous driving. However, these models typically face challenges in inference latency, action precision, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Jiaru Zhang , Manav Gagvani , Can Cui , Juntong Peng , Ruqi Zhang , Ziran Wang

End-to-end autonomous driving systems have achieved significant progress, yet their adversarial robustness remains largely underexplored. In this work, we conduct a closed-loop evaluation of state-of-the-art autonomous driving agents under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Ishan Sahu , Somnath Hazra , Somak Aditya , Soumyajit Dey

End-to-end autonomous driving systems promise stronger performance through unified optimization of perception, motion forecasting, and planning. However, vision-based approaches face fundamental limitations in adverse weather conditions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Philipp Wolters , Johannes Gilg , Torben Teepe , Gerhard Rigoll

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently attracted growing attention in end-to-end autonomous driving for their strong reasoning capabilities and rich world knowledge. However, existing VLAs often suffer from limited numerical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhaohui Wang , Tengbo Yu , Hao Tang

End-to-End (E2E) autonomous driving models are usually trained and evaluated with a fixed ego-vehicle, even though their driving policy is implicitly tied to vehicle dynamics. When such a model is deployed on a vehicle with different size,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Haesung Oh , Jaeheung Park

Precise parking requires an end-to-end system where perception adaptively provides policy-relevant details - especially in critical areas where fine control decisions are essential. End-to-end learning offers a unified framework by directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chao Chen , Shunyu Yao , Yuanwu He , Feng Tao , Ruojing Song , Yuliang Guo , Xinyu Huang , Chenxu Wu , Liu Ren , Chen Feng

End-to-end autonomous driving has gained significant attention for its potential to learn robust behavior in interactive scenarios and scale with data. Popular architectures often build on separate modules for perception and planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 David Holtz , Niklas Hanselmann , Simon Doll , Marius Cordts , Bernt Schiele

We propose CLAD -- a Constrained Latent Action Diffusion model for vision-language procedure planning in instructional videos. Procedure planning is the challenging task of predicting intermediate actions given a visual observation of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Lei Shi , Andreas Bulling

End-to-end autonomous driving (E2E-AD) demands effective processing of multi-view sensory data and robust handling of diverse and complex driving scenarios, particularly rare maneuvers such as aggressive turns. Recent success of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhenjie Yang , Yilin Chai , Xiaosong Jia , Qifeng Li , Yuqian Shao , Xuekai Zhu , Haisheng Su , Junchi Yan

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated potential in autonomous driving. However, two critical challenges hinder their development: (1) Existing VLA architectures are typically based on imitation learning in open-loop setup…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Anqing Jiang , Yu Gao , Yiru Wang , Zhigang Sun , Shuo Wang , Yuwen Heng , Hao Sun , Shichen Tang , Lijuan Zhu , Jinhao Chai , Jijun Wang , Zichong Gu , Hao Jiang , Li Sun

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show significant promise for end-to-end autonomous driving by leveraging the common sense embedded in language models, their reliance on 2D image cues for complex scene understanding and decision-making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Weijie Wei , Zhipeng Luo , Ling Feng , Venice Erin Liong