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most citedRelation-based Motion Prediction using Traffic Scene Graphs

12 citations · 21 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.CV2025

2.5D Object Detection for Intelligent Roadside Infrastructure

Nikolai Polley, Yacin Boualili, Ferdinand Mütsch +3

On-board sensors of autonomous vehicles can be obstructed, occluded, or limited by restricted fields of view, complicating downstream driving decisions. Intelligent roadside infras…

cs.LG2025

Exploring Semantic Clustering and Similarity Search for Heterogeneous Traffic Scenario Graph

Ferdinand Mütsch, Maximilian Zipfl, Nikolai Polley +1

Scenario-based testing is an indispensable instrument for the comprehensive validation and verification of automated vehicles (AVs). However, finding a manageable and finite, yet r…

cs.RO2025

DigiT4TAF -- Bridging Physical and Digital Worlds for Future Transportation Systems

Maximilian Zipfl, Pascal Zwick, Patrick Schulz +22

In the future, mobility will be strongly shaped by the increasing use of digitalization. Not only will individual road users be highly interconnected, but also the road and associa…

cs.RO2024

Empowering Autonomous Shuttles with Next-Generation Infrastructure

Sven Ochs, Melih Yazgan, Rupert Polley +9

As cities strive to address urban mobility challenges, combining autonomous transportation technologies with intelligent infrastructure presents an opportunity to transform how peo…

cs.RO2024

CoCar NextGen: a Multi-Purpose Platform for Connected Autonomous Driving Research

Marc Heinrich, Maximilian Zipfl, Marc Uecker +9

Real world testing is of vital importance to the success of automated driving. While many players in the business design purpose build testing vehicles, we designed and build a mod…

cs.RO2024

Scene-Extrapolation: Generating Interactive Traffic Scenarios

Maximilian Zipfl, Barbara Schütt, J. Marius Zöllner

Verifying highly automated driving functions can be challenging, requiring identifying relevant test scenarios. Scenario-based testing will likely play a significant role in verify…

cs.RO2024★ 2 cited

One Stack to Rule them All: To Drive Automated Vehicles, and Reach for the 4th level

Sven Ochs, Jens Doll, Daniel Grimm +15

Most automated driving functions are designed for a specific task or vehicle. Most often, the underlying architecture is fixed to specific algorithms to increase performance. There…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Heterogeneous Graph-based Trajectory Prediction using Local Map Context and Social Interactions

Daniel Grimm, Maximilian Zipfl, Felix Hertlein +7

Precisely predicting the future trajectories of surrounding traffic participants is a crucial but challenging problem in autonomous driving, due to complex interactions between tra…

cs.LG2023

Traffic Scene Similarity: a Graph-based Contrastive Learning Approach

Maximilian Zipfl, Moritz Jarosch, J. Marius Zöllner

Ensuring validation for highly automated driving poses significant obstacles to the widespread adoption of highly automated vehicles. Scenario-based testing offers a potential solu…

cs.RO2023

Utilizing Hybrid Trajectory Prediction Models to Recognize Highly Interactive Traffic Scenarios

Maximilian Zipfl, Sven Spickermann, J. Marius Zöllner

Autonomous vehicles hold great promise in improving the future of transportation. The driving models used in these vehicles are based on neural networks, which can be difficult to…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

Inverse Universal Traffic Quality -- a Criticality Metric for Crowded Urban Traffic Scenes

Barbara Schütt, Maximilian Zipfl, J. Marius Zöllner +1

An essential requirement for scenario-based testing the identification of critical scenes and their associated scenarios. However, critical scenes, such as collisions, occur compar…

cs.RO2023★ 2 cited

A Comprehensive Review on Ontologies for Scenario-based Testing in the Context of Autonomous Driving

Maximilian Zipfl, Nina Koch, J. Marius Zöllner

The verification and validation of autonomous driving vehicles remains a major challenge due to the high complexity of autonomous driving functions. Scenario-based testing is a pro…

cs.AI2022★ 12 cited

Relation-based Motion Prediction using Traffic Scene Graphs

Maximilian Zipfl, Felix Hertlein, Achim Rettinger +5

Representing relevant information of a traffic scene and understanding its environment is crucial for the success of autonomous driving. Modeling the surrounding of an autonomous c…

cs.CV2022

Self Supervised Clustering of Traffic Scenes using Graph Representations

Maximilian Zipfl, Moritz Jarosch, J. Marius Zöllner

Examining graphs for similarity is a well-known challenge, but one that is mandatory for grouping graphs together. We present a data-driven method to cluster traffic scenes that is…

cs.RO2022

Fingerprint of a Traffic Scene: an Approach for a Generic and Independent Scene Assessment

Maximilian Zipfl, Barbara Schütt, J. Marius Zöllner +1

A major challenge in the safety assessment of automated vehicles is to ensure that risk for all traffic participants is as low as possible. A concept that is becoming increasingly…

cs.LG2021

Towards Traffic Scene Description: The Semantic Scene Graph

Maximilian Zipfl, J. Marius Zöllner

For the classification of traffic scenes, a description model is necessary that can describe the scene in a uniform way, independent of its domain. A model to describe a traffic sc…

cs.GR2021★ 3 cited

Reliving the Dataset: Combining the Visualization of Road Users' Interactions with Scenario Reconstruction in Virtual Reality

Lars Töttel, Maximilian Zipfl, Daniel Bogdoll +2

One core challenge in the development of automated vehicles is their capability to deal with a multitude of complex trafficscenarios with many, hard to predict traffic participants…