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most citedBenchmarking and Improving Bird's Eye View Perception Robustness in Autonomous Driving

18 citations · 41 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.RO2026

SafeDriveVLA: Navigation-Conditioned World Model Dreaming for Conflict-Aware End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Shaoyuan Xie, Zihan Zhang, Jingxuan Wang +6

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are gaining attention in autonomous driving, inheriting commonsense priors from large language models (LLMs) and widening the navigation interfa…

cs.AI2026

AI for Auto-Research: Roadmap & User Guide

Lingdong Kong, Xian Sun, Wei Chow +17

AI-assisted research is crossing a threshold: fully automated systems can now generate research papers for as little as $15, while long-horizon agents can execute experiments, draf…

cs.CV2026

BEVLM: Distilling Semantic Knowledge from LLMs into Bird's-Eye View Representations

Thomas Monninger, Shaoyuan Xie, Qi Alfred Chen +1

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous driving has attracted growing interest for their strong reasoning and semantic understanding abilities, which are es…

cs.RO2026

The RoboSense Challenge: Sense Anything, Navigate Anywhere, Adapt Across Platforms

Lingdong Kong, Shaoyuan Xie, Zeying Gong +135

Autonomous systems are increasingly deployed in open and dynamic environments -- from city streets to aerial and indoor spaces -- where perception models must remain reliable under…

cs.CR2025

FlyTrap: Physical Distance-Pulling Attack Towards Camera-based Autonomous Target Tracking Systems

Shaoyuan Xie, Mohamad Habib Fakih, Junchi Lu +6

Autonomous Target Tracking (ATT) systems, especially ATT drones, are widely used in applications such as surveillance, border control, and law enforcement, while also being misused…

cs.CV2025

PaniCar: Securing the Perception of Advanced Driving Assistance Systems Against Emergency Vehicle Lighting

Elad Feldman, Jacob Shams, Dudi Biton +7

The safety of autonomous cars has come under scrutiny in recent years, especially after 16 documented incidents involving Teslas (with autopilot engaged) crashing into parked emerg…

cs.CV2025

Are VLMs Ready for Autonomous Driving? An Empirical Study from the Reliability, Data, and Metric Perspectives

Shaoyuan Xie, Lingdong Kong, Yuhao Dong +5

Recent advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have sparked interest in their use for autonomous driving, particularly in generating interpretable driving decisions through n…

cs.CR2024

Revisiting Physical-World Adversarial Attack on Traffic Sign Recognition: A Commercial Systems Perspective

Ningfei Wang, Shaoyuan Xie, Takami Sato +3

Traffic Sign Recognition (TSR) is crucial for safe and correct driving automation. Recent works revealed a general vulnerability of TSR models to physical-world adversarial attacks…

cs.CV2024

The RoboDrive Challenge: Drive Anytime Anywhere in Any Condition

Lingdong Kong, Shaoyuan Xie, Hanjiang Hu +88

In the realm of autonomous driving, robust perception under out-of-distribution conditions is paramount for the safe deployment of vehicles. Challenges such as adverse weather, sen…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Can We Trust Embodied Agents? Exploring Backdoor Attacks against Embodied LLM-based Decision-Making Systems

Ruochen Jiao, Shaoyuan Xie, Justin Yue +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant promise in real-world decision-making tasks for embodied artificial intelligence, especially when fine-tuned to leverage their i…

cs.CV2024★ 18 cited

Benchmarking and Improving Bird's Eye View Perception Robustness in Autonomous Driving

Shaoyuan Xie, Lingdong Kong, Wenwei Zhang +4

Recent advancements in bird's eye view (BEV) representations have shown remarkable promise for in-vehicle 3D perception. However, while these methods have achieved impressive resul…

cs.CV2023★ 7 cited

RoboDepth: Robust Out-of-Distribution Depth Estimation under Corruptions

Lingdong Kong, Shaoyuan Xie, Hanjiang Hu +3

Depth estimation from monocular images is pivotal for real-world visual perception systems. While current learning-based depth estimation models train and test on meticulously cura…

cs.CV2023★ 4 cited

The RoboDepth Challenge: Methods and Advancements Towards Robust Depth Estimation

Lingdong Kong, Yaru Niu, Shaoyuan Xie +39

Accurate depth estimation under out-of-distribution (OoD) scenarios, such as adverse weather conditions, sensor failure, and noise contamination, is desirable for safety-critical a…

cs.CV2023★ 4 cited

RoboBEV: Towards Robust Bird's Eye View Perception under Corruptions

Shaoyuan Xie, Lingdong Kong, Wenwei Zhang +4

The recent advances in camera-based bird's eye view (BEV) representation exhibit great potential for in-vehicle 3D perception. Despite the substantial progress achieved on standard…

cs.CV2023★ 7 cited

On the Adversarial Robustness of Camera-based 3D Object Detection

Shaoyuan Xie, Zichao Li, Zeyu Wang +1

In recent years, camera-based 3D object detection has gained widespread attention for its ability to achieve high performance with low computational cost. However, the robustness o…