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Real-time, high-fidelity reconstruction of dynamic driving scenes is challenged by complex dynamics and sparse views, with prior methods struggling to balance quality and efficiency. We propose DrivingScene, an online, feed-forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Qirui Hou , Wenzhang Sun , Chang Zeng , Chunfeng Wang , Hao Li , Jianxun Cui

Trajectory forecasting has become a popular deep learning task due to its relevance for scenario simulation for autonomous driving. Specifically, trajectory forecasting predicts the trajectory of a short-horizon future for specific human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Laura Zheng , Hamidreza Yaghoubi Araghi , Tony Wu , Sandeep Thalapanane , Tianyi Zhou , Ming C. Lin

End-to-End (E2E) autonomous driving models have shown growing capability in recent years, with performance improving on increasingly challenging benchmarks. However, modern generative E2E planners still suffer from a substantial number of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shounak Sural , Raj Rajkumar

Real-world problems often involve complex and unstructured sets of measurements, which occur when sensors are sparsely placed in either space or time. Being able to model this irregular spatiotemporal data and extract meaningful forecasts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Arnaud Pannatier , Kyle Matoba , François Fleuret

Data scaling plays a pivotal role in the pursuit of general intelligence. However, the prevailing perception-planning paradigm in autonomous driving relies heavily on expensive manual annotations to supervise trajectory planning, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Jiawei Xu , Zhizhou Zhong , Zhijian Shu , Mingkai Jia , Mingxiao Li , Jia-Wang Bian , Qian Zhang , Kaicheng Zhang , Jin Xie , Jian Yang , Wei Yin

World models simulate environment dynamics from raw sensory inputs like video. However, using them for planning can be challenging due to the vast and unstructured search space. We propose a robust and highly parallelizable planner that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Michael Psenka , Michael Rabbat , Aditi Krishnapriyan , Yann LeCun , Amir Bar

End-to-end autonomous driving recently emerged as a promising research direction to target autonomy from a full-stack perspective. Along this line, many of the latest works follow an open-loop evaluation setting on nuScenes to study the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zhiqi Li , Zhiding Yu , Shiyi Lan , Jiahan Li , Jan Kautz , Tong Lu , Jose M. Alvarez

Vision-based perception for autonomous driving requires an explicit modeling of a 3D space, where 2D latent representations are mapped and subsequent 3D operators are applied. However, operating on dense latent spaces introduces a cubic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Pin Tang , Zhongdao Wang , Guoqing Wang , Jilai Zheng , Xiangxuan Ren , Bailan Feng , Chao Ma

What if a video generation model could not only imagine a plausible future, but the correct one, accurately reflecting how the world changes with each action? We address this question by presenting the Egocentric World Model (EgoWM), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Anurag Bagchi , Zhipeng Bao , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Yu-Xiong Wang , Pavel Tokmakov , Martial Hebert

World modelling, i.e. building a representation of the rules that govern the world so as to predict its evolution, is an essential ability for any agent interacting with the physical world. Recent applications of the Transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Francesco Petri , Luigi Asprino , Aldo Gangemi

In order to plan a safe maneuver an autonomous vehicle must accurately perceive its environment, and understand the interactions among traffic participants. In this paper, we aim to learn scene-consistent motion forecasts of complex urban…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Sergio Casas , Cole Gulino , Simon Suo , Katie Luo , Renjie Liao , Raquel Urtasun

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

In the typical autonomous driving stack, planning and control systems represent two of the most crucial components in which data retrieved by sensors and processed by perception algorithms are used to implement a safe and comfortable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Paolo Maramotti , Alessandro Paolo Capasso , Giulio Bacchiani , Alberto Broggi

Vision-based autonomous driving shows great potential due to its satisfactory performance and low costs. Most existing methods adopt dense representations (e.g., bird's eye view) or sparse representations (e.g., instance boxes) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Wenzhao Zheng , Junjie Wu , Yao Zheng , Sicheng Zuo , Zixun Xie , Longchao Yang , Yong Pan , Zhihui Hao , Peng Jia , Xianpeng Lang , Shanghang Zhang

Recent years have seen remarkable progress in autonomous driving, yet generalization to long-tail and open-world scenarios remains a major bottleneck for large-scale deployment. To address this challenge, some works use LLMs and VLMs for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Hao Shao , Letian Wang , Yang Zhou , Yuxuan Hu , Zhuofan Zong , Steven L. Waslander , Wei Zhan , Hongsheng Li

Humans navigate in their environment by learning a mental model of the world through passive observation and active interaction. Their world model allows them to anticipate what might happen next and act accordingly with respect to an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Anthony Hu

World models serve as essential building blocks toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), enabling intelligent agents to predict future states and plan actions by simulating complex physical interactions. However, existing interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Junyi Chen , Haoyi Zhu , Xianglong He , Yifan Wang , Jianjun Zhou , Wenzheng Chang , Yang Zhou , Zizun Li , Zhoujie Fu , Jiangmiao Pang , Tong He

Autonomous parking remains a critical yet challenging task in intelligent driving systems, particularly within constrained urban environments where maneuvering space is limited and precise control is essential. While recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Haonan Chen , Kaiwen Xiao , Bin Tian , Jun Fu

We introduce a method for real-time navigation and tracking with differentiably rendered world models. Learning models for control has led to impressive results in robotics and computer games, but this success has yet to be extended to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Baris Kayalibay , Atanas Mirchev , Patrick van der Smagt , Justin Bayer

This paper presents two variations of a novel stochastic prediction algorithm that enables mobile robots to accurately and robustly predict the future state of complex dynamic scenes. The proposed algorithm uses a variational autoencoder to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Zhanteng Xie , Philip Dames