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most citedExpanding the Classical V-Model for the Development of Complex Systems Incorporating AI

18 citations · 49 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.CV2026

ALOOD: Exploiting Language Representations for LiDAR-based Out-of-Distribution Object Detection

Michael Kösel, Marcel Schreiber, Michael Ulrich +2

LiDAR-based 3D object detection plays a critical role for reliable and safe autonomous driving systems. However, existing detectors often produce overly confident predictions for o…

cs.RO2026★ 6 cited

Toward Fully Autonomous Driving: AI, Challenges, Opportunities, and Needs

Lars Ullrich, Michael Buchholz, Klaus Dietmayer +1

Automated driving (AD) is promising, but the transition to fully autonomous driving is, among other things, subject to the real, ever-changing open world and the resulting challeng…

cs.CY2025

A Concept for Efficient Scalability of Automated Driving Allowing for Technical, Legal, Cultural, and Ethical Differences

Lars Ullrich, Michael Buchholz, Jonathan Petit +2

Efficient scalability of automated driving (AD) is key to reducing costs, enhancing safety, conserving resources, and maximizing impact. However, research focuses on specific vehic…

cs.CY2025★ 15 cited

AI Safety Assurance for Automated Vehicles: A Survey on Research, Standardization, Regulation

Lars Ullrich, Michael Buchholz, Klaus Dietmayer +1

Assuring safety of artificial intelligence (AI) applied to safety-critical systems is of paramount importance. Especially since research in the field of automated driving shows tha…

cs.RO2025

Dynamic Objective MPC for Motion Planning of Seamless Docking Maneuvers

Oliver Schumann, Michael Buchholz, Klaus Dietmayer

Automated vehicles and logistics robots must often position themselves in narrow environments with high precision in front of a specific target, such as a package or their charging…

cs.SE2025★ 18 cited

Expanding the Classical V-Model for the Development of Complex Systems Incorporating AI

Lars Ullrich, Michael Buchholz, Klaus Dietmayer +1

Research in the field of automated vehicles, or more generally cognitive cyber-physical systems that operate in the real world, is leading to increasingly complex systems. Among ot…

cs.CV2024

The ADUULM-360 Dataset -- A Multi-Modal Dataset for Depth Estimation in Adverse Weather

Markus Schön, Jona Ruof, Thomas Wodtko +2

Depth estimation is an essential task toward full scene understanding since it allows the projection of rich semantic information captured by cameras into 3D space. While the field…

cs.CV2024

MGNiceNet: Unified Monocular Geometric Scene Understanding

Markus Schön, Michael Buchholz, Klaus Dietmayer

Monocular geometric scene understanding combines panoptic segmentation and self-supervised depth estimation, focusing on real-time application in autonomous vehicles. We introduce…

cs.CV2024

SemanticSpray++: A Multimodal Dataset for Autonomous Driving in Wet Surface Conditions

Aldi Piroli, Vinzenz Dallabetta, Johannes Kopp +3

Autonomous vehicles rely on camera, LiDAR, and radar sensors to navigate the environment. Adverse weather conditions like snow, rain, and fog are known to be problematic for both c…

cs.CV2024★ 9 cited

Label-Efficient Semantic Segmentation of LiDAR Point Clouds in Adverse Weather Conditions

Aldi Piroli, Vinzenz Dallabetta, Johannes Kopp +3

Adverse weather conditions can severely affect the performance of LiDAR sensors by introducing unwanted noise in the measurements. Therefore, differentiating between noise and vali…

cs.CV2024

Revisiting Out-of-Distribution Detection in LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection

Michael Kösel, Marcel Schreiber, Michael Ulrich +2

LiDAR-based 3D object detection has become an essential part of automated driving due to its ability to localize and classify objects precisely in 3D. However, object detectors fac…

cs.CV2023

Simultaneous Clutter Detection and Semantic Segmentation of Moving Objects for Automotive Radar Data

Johannes Kopp, Dominik Kellner, Aldi Piroli +2

The unique properties of radar sensors, such as their robustness to adverse weather conditions, make them an important part of the environment perception system of autonomous vehic…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Multimodal Object Query Initialization for 3D Object Detection

Mathijs R. van Geerenstein, Felicia Ruppel, Klaus Dietmayer +1

3D object detection models that exploit both LiDAR and camera sensor features are top performers in large-scale autonomous driving benchmarks. A transformer is a popular network ar…

cs.CV2023

Towards Robust 3D Object Detection In Rainy Conditions

Aldi Piroli, Vinzenz Dallabetta, Johannes Kopp +3

LiDAR sensors are used in autonomous driving applications to accurately perceive the environment. However, they are affected by adverse weather conditions such as snow, fog, and ra…

cs.CV2023

LS-VOS: Identifying Outliers in 3D Object Detections Using Latent Space Virtual Outlier Synthesis

Aldi Piroli, Vinzenz Dallabetta, Johannes Kopp +3

LiDAR-based 3D object detectors have achieved unprecedented speed and accuracy in autonomous driving applications. However, similar to other neural networks, they are often biased…