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most citedImproving Generalization of Transfer Learning Across Domains Using Spatio-Temporal Features in Autonomous Driving

9 citations · 18 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.RO2026

Differentiable Dynamics for Autonomous Micro-Mobility Navigation

Grace Cai, Joey Lee, Nithin Parepally +2

Autonomous micro-mobility vehicles (MMVs) such as wheelchairs, scooters, and bicycles have the potential to improve mobility access and support safe low-speed transportation in ped…

cs.RO2025

GM3: A General Physical Model for Micro-Mobility Vehicles

Grace Cai, Nithin Parepally, Laura Zheng +1

Modeling the dynamics of micro-mobility vehicles (MMV) is becoming increasingly important for training autonomous vehicle systems and building urban traffic simulations. However, m…

cs.RO2025

Quantifying and Modeling Driving Styles in Trajectory Forecasting

Laura Zheng, Hamidreza Yaghoubi Araghi, Tony Wu +3

Trajectory forecasting has become a popular deep learning task due to its relevance for scenario simulation for autonomous driving. Specifically, trajectory forecasting predicts th…

cs.RO2025

DISC: Dataset for Analyzing Driving Styles In Simulated Crashes for Mixed Autonomy

Sandip Sharan Senthil Kumar, Sandeep Thalapanane, Guru Nandhan Appiya Dilipkumar Peethambari +3

Handling pre-crash scenarios is still a major challenge for self-driving cars due to limited practical data and human-driving behavior datasets. We introduce DISC (Driving Styles I…

cs.RO2024

Gradient-based Trajectory Optimization with Parallelized Differentiable Traffic Simulation

Sanghyun Son, Laura Zheng, Brian Clipp +3

We present a parallelized differentiable traffic simulator based on the Intelligent Driver Model (IDM), a car-following framework that incorporates driver behavior as key variables…

cs.RO2024

TRAVERSE: Traffic-Responsive Autonomous Vehicle Experience & Rare-event Simulation for Enhanced safety

Sandeep Thalapanane, Sandip Sharan Senthil Kumar, Guru Nandhan Appiya Dilipkumar Peethambari +4

Data for training learning-enabled self-driving cars in the physical world are typically collected in a safe, normal environment. Such data distribution often engenders a strong bi…

cs.RO2024

Deep Stochastic Kinematic Models for Probabilistic Motion Forecasting in Traffic

Laura Zheng, Sanghyun Son, Jing Liang +3

In trajectory forecasting tasks for traffic, future output trajectories can be computed by advancing the ego vehicle's state with predicted actions according to a kinematics model.…

cs.CV2024

Adaptive Sensitivity Analysis for Robust Augmentation against Natural Corruptions in Image Segmentation

Laura Zheng, Wenjie Wei, Tony Wu +5

Achieving robustness in image segmentation models is challenging due to the fine-grained nature of pixel-level classification. These models, which are crucial for many real-time pe…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Gradient Informed Proximal Policy Optimization

Sanghyun Son, Laura Yu Zheng, Ryan Sullivan +2

We introduce a novel policy learning method that integrates analytical gradients from differentiable environments with the Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm. To incorpor…

cs.RO2023

Towards Driving Policies with Personality: Modeling Behavior and Style in Risky Scenarios via Data Collection in Virtual Reality

Laura Zheng, Julio Poveda, James Mullen +2

Autonomous driving research currently faces data sparsity in representation of risky scenarios. Such data is both difficult to obtain ethically in the real world, and unreliable to…

cs.RO2022

Traffic-Aware Autonomous Driving with Differentiable Traffic Simulation

Laura Zheng, Sanghyun Son, Ming C. Lin

While there have been advancements in autonomous driving control and traffic simulation, there have been little to no works exploring their unification with deep learning. Works in…

cs.CV2021★ 9 cited

Improving Generalization of Transfer Learning Across Domains Using Spatio-Temporal Features in Autonomous Driving

Shivam Akhauri, Laura Zheng, Tom Goldstein +1

Practical learning-based autonomous driving models must be capable of generalizing learned behaviors from simulated to real domains, and from training data to unseen domains with u…

cs.CV2021★ 5 cited

Improving Robustness of Learning-based Autonomous Steering Using Adversarial Images

Yu Shen, Laura Zheng, Manli Shu +3

For safety of autonomous driving, vehicles need to be able to drive under various lighting, weather, and visibility conditions in different environments. These external and environ…

cs.RO2020

Enhanced Transfer Learning for Autonomous Driving with Systematic Accident Simulation

Shivam Akhauri, Laura Zheng, Ming Lin

Simulation data can be utilized to extend real-world driving data in order to cover edge cases, such as vehicle accidents. The importance of handling edge cases can be observed in…