Study improves self-driving safety in dynamic environments.
problem Safe self-driving in non-stationary urban settings.
method Neurosymbolic Meta-Reinforcement Lookahead Learning (NUMERLA).
result Self-driving agents can adapt safely in real-time.
Predict steering angles of self-driving cars from images.
problem Predicting steering angles for self-driving cars using image data.
method Used deep learning techniques like Transfer Learning, 3D CNN, LSTM, and ResNet to predict steering angles.
result Both models placed in the top ten of Udacity's challenge.
Researchers develop PAIN to improve self-driving safety through adversarial training.
problem Overfitting and poor generalizability of neural networks in self-driving vehicles.
method PAIN combines adversarial training in CARLA simulation to generate edge cases.
result Trained self-driving vehicles are more resilient to environmental uncertainty and less prone to collisions.
Improved motion prediction for self-driving cars using trajectory sets and auxiliary losses.
problem Accurately predicting future vehicle motion for self-driving cars.
method Classification over trajectory sets with an auxiliary loss for off-road predictions and spatial-temporal relationships.
result Significant improvement in motion prediction performance on small datasets using map information.
Paper classifies pedestrians and vehicles detected by LiDAR.
problem Classifying objects from LiDAR data for self-driving cars.
method Used LiDAR-based object detector and Neural Networks classifier.
result Real-time object detection for self-driving vehicles.
New security patch for object tracking in self-driving cars mitigates vulnerabilities.
problem Vulnerability of object tracking in self-driving cars, especially Kalman Filter-based trackers.
method Adaptive strategy to balance focus on observations and predictions based on deviation anomaly index.
result Certified effectiveness against a generalized hijacking attack model.
End-to-end learnable network for safer self-driving with interpretable intermediate representations.
problem Safe motion planning for self-driving vehicles.
method Differentiable semantic occupancy representation for cost calculation in motion planning.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art planners in imitating human behaviors and producing safer trajectories.
Safety evaluation of self-driving technologies has been extensively studied. One recent approach uses Monte Carlo based evaluation to estimate the occurrence probabilities of safety-critical events as safety measures. These Monte Carlo samples are generated from stochastic input models constructed based on real-world d…
In recent years, car makers and tech companies have been racing towards self driving cars. It seems that the main parameter in this race is who will have the first car on the road. The goal of this paper is to add to the equation two additional crucial parameters. The first is standardization of safety assurance --- wh…
Generative model improves safety in self-driving simulators and human motion generation.
problem Improving generative models for constrained domains like safety-critical applications.
method Developed Gen-neG, a denoising diffusion model that uses oracle-assisted guidance.
result Empirically validated Gen-neG for collision avoidance and safety-guarded human motion generation.
This work improves vehicle trajectory prediction for safer self-driving cars.
problem Improving trajectory predictions for safer self-driving cars.
method Deep-learning-based method combining AI and physically grounded models.
result Proposes a method that outperforms existing state-of-the-art.
Deep RL mimics human driving for collision avoidance in self-driving cars.
problem Developing human-like driving policies for autonomous vehicles in mixed traffic environments.
method Model-free, deep reinforcement learning approach using a combination of rule-based and expert-driven data.
result Demonstrated human-like driving policies through Gaussian process modeling of track position and speed distributions.
In this paper, we present a framework to control a self-driving car by fusing raw information from RGB images and depth maps. A deep neural network architecture is used for mapping the vision and depth information, respectively, to steering commands. This fusion of information from two sensor sources allows to provide …
This paper studies users' perception regarding a controversial product, namely self-driving (autonomous) cars. To find people's opinion regarding this new technology, we used an annotated Twitter dataset, and extracted the topics in positive and negative tweets using an unsupervised, probabilistic model known as topic …
Waymo Open Dataset provides a large, diverse, and synchronized LiDAR and camera dataset for autonomous driving research.
problem Limited diversity and scale in existing self-driving datasets hinder real-world problem alignment.
method Developed a new large-scale, high-quality, diverse dataset with synchronized LiDAR and camera data.
result The dataset is 15x more diverse than the largest existing dataset based on a proposed diversity metric.
Paper proposes incorporating road rules as a loss function for better motion planning.
problem Lack of structured priors in perception and motion forecasting methods.
method Integrates road rules as a loss function in a probabilistic model using REINFORCE.
result Motion forecasts result in safer plans for self-driving vehicles.
With the rise of self-driving vehicles comes the risk of accidents and the need for higher safety, and protection for pedestrian detection in the following scenarios: imminent crashes, thus the car should crash into an object and avoid the pedestrian, and in the case of road intersections, where it is important for the…
Deep learning powers automotive innovations like self-driving cars.
problem Improving vehicle safety and functionality.
method Deployment of deep learning models in ADAS systems.
result Deep learning enhances performance and functionality of ADAS solutions.
Automated vehicles learn to predict upcoming maneuvers with high accuracy.
problem Making self-driving cars feel safer by anticipating future actions.
method Machine learning techniques applied to a large dataset of real-world driving.
result Automated vehicles can predict maneuvers up to 5 seconds in advance with high accuracy.
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have tremendous potential in advancing the vision for self-driving cars. However, the security of DNN models in this context leads to major safety implications and needs to be better understood. We consider the case study of steering angle prediction from camera images, using the dataset fro…
This paper explores formal verification for autonomous systems, identifying limitations and proposing improvements.
problem Ensuring safety of autonomous systems like self-driving cars and drones.
method Formal verification techniques based on formal methods, analyzing three assumptions and their limitations.
result Preliminary work to improve the strength of evidence provided by formal verification.
HCNAF models complex conditional distributions for probabilistic occupancy forecasting.
problem Modeling complex conditional probability density functions for occupancy forecasting.
method Hyper-Conditioned Neural Autoregressive Flow (HCNAF) combining AF and hyper-network.
result HCNAF achieves state-of-the-art performance in self-driving datasets.
CoverNet predicts urban driving trajectories using diverse sets of possible actions.
problem Multimodal probabilistic trajectory prediction for urban driving.
method Frame trajectory prediction as classification over a diverse set of trajectories; dynamically generate sets based on current state.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art methods on real-world self-driving datasets.
Proposes novel method for detecting novel scenarios in autonomous systems.
problem Detecting when a machine learning model makes a trustworthy prediction in dynamic, real-world situations.
method Leverages trained model's learned information and a new image similarity metric.
result Demonstrates the method's efficacy on real-world driving and indoor racing datasets.
A rise in popularity of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), attributed to more powerful GPUs and widely available datasets, has seen them being increasingly used within safety-critical domains. One such domain, self-driving, has benefited from significant performance improvements, with millions of miles having been driven wit…
SELD-TCN improves sound event localization and detection efficiency.
problem Efficient sound event localization and detection on embedded hardware.
method Developed a novel temporal convolutional network (TCN) architecture.
result SELD-TCN outperforms state-of-the-art SELDnet on four datasets.
Traffic actors' future motion predicted using a hybrid graph model.
problem Predicting long-term behaviors of traffic actors in complex scenes.
method A hybrid graph model with nodes for actors and traffic elements, and edges for interaction types.
result TrafficGraphNet achieves state-of-the-art trajectory prediction accuracy.
Generates multimodal safety-critical scenarios for robustness evaluation of decision-making algorithms.
problem Lack of comprehensive evaluation of neural network robustness under real-world scenarios.
method Proposes a flow-based multimodal scenario generator using weighted likelihood maximization and gradient-based sampling.
result Demonstrates improved testing efficiency and multimodal modeling capability compared to traditional methods.
Detecting the intention of drivers is an essential task in self-driving, necessary to anticipate sudden events like lane changes and stops. Turn signals and emergency flashers communicate such intentions, providing seconds of potentially critical reaction time. In this paper, we propose to detect these signals in video…
An active area of research is to increase the safety of self-driving vehicles. Although safety cannot be guarenteed completely, the capability of a vehicle to predict the future trajectories of its surrounding vehicles could help ensure this notion of safety to a greater deal. We cast the trajectory forecast problem in…
Deep neural features identify unique vehicles from dash-cam feeds.
problem Identifying unique vehicles in dash-cam feeds for self-driving cars.
method Used pretrained YOLO network feature maps to create deep integrated feature signatures (DIFS) for 700 images of 35 vehicles and 340 images of 17 vehicles.
result Correctly identified unique vehicles at 96.7% for high resolution data and 86.8% for lower resolution data.
VectorNet predicts car behavior using vectorized HD maps and agent dynamics.
problem Predicting behavior in multi-agent systems with self-driving cars.
method VectorNet uses hierarchical graph neural networks on vectorized representations of HD maps and agent trajectories.
result VectorNet achieves comparable or better performance than state-of-the-art methods while using fewer parameters and less computational power.
Shifts dataset evaluates uncertainty in real-world tasks across modalities.
problem Lack of standard datasets for evaluating uncertainty estimation and robustness to distributional shift.
method Proposes Shifts Dataset for evaluation of uncertainty estimates and robustness to distributional shift across tabular, audio, text, and sensor data.
result Baseline results for tabular weather prediction, machine translation, and SDC vehicle motion prediction.
Real-time detection of out-of-distribution data in CPS control systems.
problem Detecting out-of-distribution data in CPS control systems for safety.
method Inductive conformal prediction and anomaly detection using variational autoencoders and deep support vector data description.
result Efficient real-time detection with low false alarm rates and comparable execution time.
DAD++ improves test-time adversarial defense without access to training data.
problem Improving adversarial robustness of pre-trained models without access to training data.
method Test-time Data-free Adversarial Defense (DAD++) with detection and correction schemes.
result DAD++ significantly improves adversarial robustness with minimal clean accuracy drop.
Comma.ai's approach to Artificial Intelligence for self-driving cars is based on an agent that learns to clone driver behaviors and plans maneuvers by simulating future events in the road. This paper illustrates one of our research approaches for driving simulation. One where we learn to simulate. Here we investigate v…
A core novelty of Alpha Zero is the interleaving of tree search and deep learning, which has proven very successful in board games like Chess, Shogi and Go. These games have a discrete action space. However, many real-world reinforcement learning domains have continuous action spaces, for example in robotic control, na…
Self-driving technology is advancing rapidly --- albeit with significant challenges and limitations. This progress is largely due to recent developments in deep learning algorithms. To date, however, there has been no systematic comparison of how different deep learning architectures perform at such tasks, or an attemp…
We address one of the crucial aspects necessary for safe and efficient operations of autonomous vehicles, namely predicting future state of traffic actors in the autonomous vehicle's surroundings. We introduce a deep learning-based approach that takes into account a current world state and produces raster images of eac…
AI agents manage portfolios, improving on human oversight.
problem Improving strategic asset allocation for institutional investors.
method 50 specialized agents produce capital market assumptions, construct portfolios, critique, and vote on each other's output.
result Meta-agent compares forecasts with realized returns and improves agent performance.
Optical co-processor speeds up neural network training.
problem Expensive training costs for large neural networks.
method Direct feedback alignment, optical error projection.
result Optical co-processor trains neural networks for handwritten digit recognition.
Machine learning models, especially based on deep architectures are used in everyday applications ranging from self driving cars to medical diagnostics. It has been shown that such models are dangerously susceptible to adversarial samples, indistinguishable from real samples to human eye, adversarial samples lead to in…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is intrinsically data-driven. It calls for the application of statistical concepts through human-machine collaboration during generation of data, development of algorithms, and evaluation of results. This paper discusses how such human-machine collaboration can be approached through the sta…
Future autonomous systems need reliable world models and complex action sequences.
problem Current automated systems lack reliable world models and complex action sequences.
method Introduce energy-based and latent variable models combined in a hierarchical joint embedding predictive architecture (H-JEPA).
result Combining energy-based and latent variable models in H-JEPA can lead to reliable world models and complex action sequences.
A technique to quickly fix mistakes in neural networks.
problem Fixing model errors in neural networks quickly and without affecting other samples.
method Editable Training, a model-agnostic training technique.
result Effectiveness demonstrated on large-scale image classification and machine translation tasks.
Paper offers local neural network explanations by considering model architecture.
problem Creating true neighbourhoods for black box models.
method Penultimate layer decoding for local neighbourhood generation.
result Local explanations are more accurate and relevant to instances.
Fast and efficient motion planning algorithms are crucial for many state-of-the-art robotics applications such as self-driving cars. Existing motion planning methods become ineffective as their computational complexity increases exponentially with the dimensionality of the motion planning problem. To address this issue…
Autonomous systems can substantially enhance a human's efficiency and effectiveness in complex environments. Machines, however, are often unable to observe the preferences of the humans that they serve. Despite the fact that the human's and machine's objectives are aligned, asymmetric information, along with heterogene…