The paper proposes a label‑free 3D perception framework where roadside units (RSUs) act as unsupervised teachers for self‑driving cars. RSUs learn local 3D detectors from unlabeled data and broadcast predictions to passing vehicles, which use these as pseudo‑labels to train an ego‑centric detector. In a CARLA simulation, the method achieves 82.3% AP for vehicle detection, approaching a fully supervised upper bound of 94.4%, and demonstrates scalability and complementarity with existing ego‑centric approaches.
arXiv:2603. 28963v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Simulation with realistic traffic agents is essential for validating autonomous driving systems.
arXiv:2608. 16480v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present RISE (Roadside Infrastructure Sequence Understanding and Evaluation), a framework spanning metric 3D tracking and structured vision-language reasoning in roadside sequences.
arXiv:2606. 07708v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce a dataset and benchmark for cross-view urban traffic perception built from synchronized ego-centric bicycle videos and aerial drone videos recorded at real urban intersections.
The paper introduces a multi‑modal traffic sign detection framework that fuses camera and LiDAR data using an Intensity‑Aware Deformable Fusion module to align retro‑reflective LiDAR cues with visual features. It also presents a dual motion‑model tracker to handle non‑linear perspective changes and a semantic attribute classification pipeline that estimates occlusion, readability, sign embeddedness, and road relevance. Evaluated on a dataset covering more than 60 countries and 2,500 hours of driving, the system achieves an Object Miss Ratio of 0.49% across 221,068 sequences, indicating strong global generalization for autonomous driving.
Bird's-Eye View (BEV) end-to-end instance prediction has emerged as a robust paradigm for autonomous driving perception, effectively mitigating the error propagation inherent in traditional modular pipelines. However, current state-of-the-art approaches rely predominantly on geometric supervision, such as occupancy regression and optical flow, effectively treating scene agents as generic moving obstacles.
arXiv:2607.00736v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) has garnered attention in recent years due to its independence from ground truth. However, most ex...
arXiv:2609.00111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Qwen-Drive-1.0, an initial step towards a vision-language foundation model for autonomous driving. Qwen-Drive-1.0 retains the architecture o...
The paper introduces a plug‑and‑play method that injects traffic‑element signals—such as traffic lights and road signs—into end‑to‑end autonomous driving models with minimal architectural changes. By augmenting several public datasets with comprehensive traffic‑element annotations, the authors evaluate this integration across diverse driving paradigms, consistently improving performance on nuScenes, NAVSIM‑v1, NAVSIM‑v2, and Bench2Drive. The approach achieves a new state‑of‑the‑art result on the challenging NAVSIM‑v2 benchmark, demonstrating the broad utility of traffic‑element awareness.
arXiv:2608.13147v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Camera-based autonomous driving perception requires a shared representation that preserves metric 3D structure across synchronized multi-camera str...
arXiv:2606. 17082v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end autonomous parking has emerged as a critical task within the realm of autonomous driving.
arXiv:2606. 15749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traffic scene understanding requires models to reason beyond object recognition, including lane topology, multi-view geometry, temporal evolution, and signal-phase semantics.
arXiv:2607. 23910v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cooperative perception through vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication can overcome the inherent physical limitations of individual autonomous vehicles, such as occlusions and limited sensor range.