5 papers
VOLA: Improving Open-World Driving by VLM-Based Semantic Attribute Prediction
Yuchen Zhang, Yuan Gao, Sebastian Schmidt +1
Driving in the real world is open-world: a car may encounter a fallen mattress, a deer, or other objects outside its training data. Naming them is not enough. The system must know…
NuRisk: A Visual Question Answering Dataset for Agent-Level Risk Assessment in Autonomous Driving
Yuan Gao, Mattia Piccinini, Roberto Brusnicki +2
Understanding risk in autonomous driving requires not only perception and prediction, but also high-level reasoning about agent behavior and context. Current Vision Language Model…
Target-Bench: Can Video World Models Achieve Mapless Path Planning with Semantic Targets?
Dingrui Wang, Zhihao Liang, Hongyuan Ye +13
While recent video world models can generate highly realistic videos, their ability to perform semantic reasoning and planning remains unclear and unquantified. We introduce Target…
Beyond Flat Unknown Labels in Open-World Object Detection
Yuchen Zhang, Yao Lu, Johannes Betz
Most object detectors operate under a closed-world assumption, recognizing only the classes annotated in the training dataset and failing when encountering novel objects. Open-Worl…
Foundation Models in Autonomous Driving: A Survey on Scenario Generation and Scenario Analysis
Yuan Gao, Mattia Piccinini, Yuchen Zhang +12
For autonomous vehicles, safe navigation in complex environments depends on handling a broad range of diverse and rare driving scenarios. Simulation- and scenario-based testing hav…