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most citedProbabilistic Uncertainty-Aware Risk Spot Detector for Naturalistic Driving

24 citations · 88 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.HC2026

What and Where in Identifying and Quantifying Conventions in Humans and AI Agents

Makoto Fukushima, Tim Puphal

Cooperative success rests in part on implicit communication. Partners converge on conventions: regularities that give an action meaning beyond its direct effect. Yet conventions ar…

cs.RO2025

Risk-Based Filtering of Valuable Driving Situations in the Waymo Open Motion Dataset

Tim Puphal, Vipul Ramtekkar, Kenji Nishimiya

Improving automated vehicle software requires driving data rich in valuable road user interactions. In this paper, we propose a risk-based filtering approach that helps identify su…

cs.RO2025

Finding the Easy Way Through -- the Probabilistic Gap Planner for Social Robot Navigation

Malte Probst, Raphael Wenzel, Tim Puphal +4

In Social Robot Navigation, autonomous agents need to resolve many sequential interactions with other agents. State-of-the art planners can efficiently resolve the next, imminent i…

cs.RO2025

Probabilistic Collision Risk Estimation for Pedestrian Navigation

Amine Tourki, Paul Prevel, Nils Einecke +2

Intelligent devices for supporting persons with vision impairment are becoming more widespread, but they are lacking behind the advancements in intelligent driver assistant system.…

cs.HC2024

Human-Based Risk Model for Improved Driver Support in Interactive Driving Scenarios

Tim Puphal, Benedict Flade, Matti Krüger +2

This paper addresses the problem of human-based driver support. Nowadays, driver support systems help users to operate safely in many driving situations. Nevertheless, these system…

cs.RO2024

Reducing Warning Errors in Driver Support with Personalized Risk Maps

Tim Puphal, Ryohei Hirano, Takayuki Kawabuchi +2

We consider the problem of human-focused driver support. State-of-the-art personalization concepts allow to estimate parameters for vehicle control systems or driver models. Howeve…

eess.SY2023

Introducing Risk Shadowing For Decisive and Comfortable Behavior Planning

Tim Puphal, Julian Eggert

We consider the problem of group interactions in urban driving. State-of-the-art behavior planners for self-driving cars mostly consider each single agent-to-agent interaction sepa…

cs.AI2023

Considering Human Factors in Risk Maps for Robust and Foresighted Driver Warning

Tim Puphal, Ryohei Hirano, Malte Probst +2

Driver support systems that include human states in the support process is an active research field. Many recent approaches allow, for example, to sense the driver's drowsiness or…

cs.RO2023★ 19 cited

Online and Predictive Warning System for Forced Lane Changes using Risk Maps

Tim Puphal, Benedict Flade, Malte Probst +3

The survival analysis of driving trajectories allows for holistic evaluations of car-related risks caused by collisions or curvy roads. This analysis has advantages over common Tim…

cs.RO2023★ 5 cited

Continuous Risk Measures for Driving Support

Julian Eggert, Tim Puphal

In this paper, we compare three different model-based risk measures by evaluating their stengths and weaknesses qualitatively and testing them quantitatively on a set of real longi…

cs.RO2023★ 7 cited

Comfortable Priority Handling with Predictive Velocity Optimization for Intersection Crossings

Tim Puphal, Malte Probst, Misa Komuro +2

We address the problem of motion planning for four-way intersection crossings with right-of-ways. Road safety typically assigns liability to the follower in rear-end collisions and…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

Proactive Risk Navigation System for Real-World Urban Intersections

Tim Puphal, Benedict Flade, Daan de Geus +1

We consider the problem of intelligently navigating through complex traffic. Urban situations are defined by the underlying map structure and special regulatory objects of e.g. a s…

cs.RO2023★ 12 cited

Intersection Warning System for Occlusion Risks using Relational Local Dynamic Maps

Florian Damerow, Yuda Li, Tim Puphal +2

This work addresses the task of risk evaluation in traffic scenarios with limited observability due to restricted sensorial coverage. Here, we concentrate on intersection scenarios…

cs.AI2023★ 24 cited

Probabilistic Uncertainty-Aware Risk Spot Detector for Naturalistic Driving

Tim Puphal, Malte Probst, Julian Eggert

Risk assessment is a central element for the development and validation of Autonomous Vehicles (AV). It comprises a combination of occurrence probability and severity of future cri…

cs.AI2023★ 18 cited

Optimization of Velocity Ramps with Survival Analysis for Intersection Merge-Ins

Tim Puphal, Malte Probst, Yiyang Li +2

We consider the problem of correct motion planning for T-intersection merge-ins of arbitrary geometry and vehicle density. A merge-in support system has to estimate the chances tha…

cs.RO2023★ 2 cited

Importance Filtering with Risk Models for Complex Driving Situations

Tim Puphal, Raphael Wenzel, Benedict Flade +2

Self-driving cars face complex driving situations with a large amount of agents when moving in crowded cities. However, some of the agents are actually not influencing the behavior…