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Recently, world models have been incorporated into the autonomous driving systems to improve the planning reliability. Existing approaches typically predict future states through appearance generation or deterministic regression, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Xiaolu Liu , Yicong Li , Song Wang , Junbo Chen , Angela Yao , Jianke Zhu

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

End-to-end autonomous driving (E2E-AD) has emerged as a promising paradigm that unifies perception, prediction, and planning into a holistic, data-driven framework. However, achieving robustness to varying camera viewpoints, a common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Hoonhee Cho , Jae-Young Kang , Giwon Lee , Hyemin Yang , Heejun Park , Seokwoo Jung , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently achieved notable progress in end-to-end autonomous driving by integrating perception, reasoning, and control within a unified multimodal framework. However, they often lack explicit modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Guoqing Wang , Pin Tang , Xiangxuan Ren , Guodongfang Zhao , Bailan Feng , Chao Ma

End-to-end autonomous driving has made impressive progress in recent years. Existing methods usually adopt the decoupled encoder-decoder paradigm, where the encoder extracts hidden features from raw sensor data, and the decoder outputs the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Xiaosong Jia , Penghao Wu , Li Chen , Jiangwei Xie , Conghui He , Junchi Yan , Hongyang Li

World models have attracted increasing attention in autonomous driving for their ability to forecast potential future scenarios. In this paper, we propose BEVWorld, a novel framework that transforms multimodal sensor inputs into a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yumeng Zhang , Shi Gong , Kaixin Xiong , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiaofan Li , Xiao Tan , Fan Wang , Jizhou Huang , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

The inherent sequential modeling capabilities of autoregressive models make them a formidable baseline for end-to-end planning in autonomous driving. Nevertheless, their performance is constrained by a spatio-temporal misalignment, as the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Jianbo Zhao , Taiyu Ban , Xiangjie Li , Xingtai Gui , Hangning Zhou , Lei Liu , Hongwei Zhao , Bin Li

It is critical to predict the motion of surrounding vehicles for self-driving planning, especially in a socially compliant and flexible way. However, future prediction is challenging due to the interaction and uncertainty in driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Haoran Song , Wenchao Ding , Yuxuan Chen , Shaojie Shen , Michael Yu Wang , Qifeng Chen

Autonomous driving systems with self-evolution capabilities have the potential to independently evolve in complex and open environments, allowing to handle more unknown scenarios. However, as a result of the safety-performance trade-off…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Shuo Yang , Shizhen Li , Yanjun Huang , Hong Chen

World models envision potential future states based on various ego actions. They embed extensive knowledge about the driving environment, facilitating safe and scalable autonomous driving. Most existing methods primarily focus on either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Yu Yang , Jianbiao Mei , Yukai Ma , Siliang Du , Wenqing Chen , Yijie Qian , Yuxiang Feng , Yong Liu

World models, especially in autonomous driving, are trending and drawing extensive attention due to their capacity for comprehending driving environments. The established world model holds immense potential for the generation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Xinze Chen , Jiagang Zhu , Jiwen Lu

Trajectory prediction plays a crucial role in improving the safety of autonomous vehicles. However, due to the highly dynamic and multimodal nature of the task, accurately predicting the future trajectory of a target vehicle remains a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Saiqian Peng , Duanfeng Chu , Guanjie Li , Liping Lu , Jinxiang Wang

Obstacle avoidance in complex and dynamic environments is a critical challenge for real-time robot navigation. Model-based and learning-based methods often fail in highly dynamic scenarios because traditional methods assume a static…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yiwen Ying , Hanjing Ye , Senzi Luo , Luyao Liu , Yu Zhan , Li He , Hong Zhang

End-to-end diffusion planning has shown strong potential for autonomous driving, but the physical feasibility of generated trajectories remains insufficiently addressed. In particular, generated trajectories may exhibit local geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Baoyun Wang , Zhuoren Li , Ran Yu , Yu Che , Xinrui Zhang , Ming Liu , Jia Hu , Chen Lv , Bo Leng

This paper aims to improve the path quality and computational efficiency of kinodynamic planners used for vehicular systems. It proposes a learning framework for identifying promising controls during the expansion process of sampling-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Seth Karten , Aravind Sivaramakrishnan , Edgar Granados , Troy McMahon , Kostas E. Bekris

This paper aims to improve the path quality and computational efficiency of sampling-based kinodynamic planners for vehicular navigation. It proposes a learning framework for identifying promising controls during the expansion process of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Aravind Sivaramakrishnan , Edgar Granados , Seth Karten , Troy McMahon , Kostas E. Bekris

Traditionally, prediction and planning in autonomous driving (AD) have been treated as separate, sequential modules. Recently, there has been a growing shift towards tighter integration of these components, known as Integrated Prediction…

An ego vehicle following a virtual lead vehicle planned route is an essential component when autonomous and non-autonomous vehicles interact. Yet, there is a question about the driver's ability to follow the planned lead vehicle route.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Abduallah Mohamed , Jundi Liu , Linda Ng Boyle , Christian Claudel

Autonomous driving, as an agent operating in the physical world, requires the fundamental capability to build \textit{world models} that capture how the environment evolves spatiotemporally in order to support long-term planning. At the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Haoran Zhu , Anna Choromanska

Decision-making and motion planning constitute critical components for ensuring the safety and efficiency of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Existing methodologies typically adopt two paradigms: decision then planning or generation then scoring.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Ruoyu Yao , Yubin Wang , Haichao Liu , Rui Yang , Zengqi Peng , Lei Zhu , Jun Ma