As autonomous vehicle capabilities advance, the safe evaluation of driving policies in long-tail scenarios remains a critical bottleneck. In closed-loop simulation, the driving policy model actively interacts with the environment, where its actions dynamically update the simulator state and directly influence the next set of generated sensor observations.
arXiv:2606. 03159v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As autonomous vehicle capabilities advance, the safe evaluation of driving policies in long-tail scenarios remains a critical bottleneck.
By NVIDIA, :, Aarti Basant, Amlan Kar, Despoina Paschalidou, Fangyin Wei, Francesco Ferroni, Guillermo Garcia Cobo, Haithem Turki, Huan Ling, Jaewoo Seo, James Lucas, Jay Zhangjie Wu, Jialiang Wang, Jonathan Lorraine, Jun Gao, Kai He, Katarina Tothova, Kevin Xie, Micha{\l} Tyszkiewicz, Qi Wu, Riccardo de Lutio, Ruilong Li, Sanja Fidler, Seung Wook Kim, Tianchang Shen, Tianshi Cao, Tobias Pfaff, William Lew, Xindi Wu, Xuanchi Ren, Yifan Lu, Yuxuan Zhang, Zan Gojcic, Zian Wang
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.
By Maonan Wang, Zhengyan Huang, Kemou Jiang, Yuhang Fu, Jiayue Zhu, Yuxin Cai, Xingchen Zou, Qiaosheng Zhang, Yi Yu, Ding Wang, Xi Chen, Ben M. Chen, Yuxuan Liang, Zhiyong Cui, Man On Pun, Yirong Chen
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.
By Prakhar Bhardwaj, Simone Weikl, Kilian Mang, Elia Jonas Sandtner
arXiv:2607. 09764v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The synthesis of safety-critical scenarios (SCS) and their evaluation through closed-loop simulations are crucial for developing robust autonomous driving systems.
By Xiaoyun Dong, Qian Xu, Yang Lu, Yang Lou, Yung-Hui Li, Jianping Wang
arXiv:2606. 16278v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-tail hazardous scenarios are essential for safety-oriented autonomous driving, yet they are difficult to collect and reproduce at scale.
By Zhenhua Wu, Yun Pang, Mingkun Chang, Yuwei Ning, Liangzhi Wang, Yi Xiao, Guanbin Li
arXiv:2602. 23499v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Collecting a high-quality dataset is a critical task that demands meticulous attention to detail, as overlooking certain aspects can render the entire dataset unusable.
By Tugrul Gorgulu, Atakan Dag, M. Esat Kalfaoglu, Halil Ibrahim Kuru, Baris Can Cam, Halil Ibrahim Ozturk, Ozsel Kilinc
arXiv:2603. 11417v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving models are typically trained on multi-city datasets using supervised ImageNet-pretrained backbones, yet their ability to generalize to unseen cities remains largely unexamined.
By Fatemeh Naeinian, Ali Hamza, Haoran Zhu, Anna Choromanska
arXiv:2606. 29879v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) provide powerful semantic understanding and commonsense reasoning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving (E2E-AD) planning.
By Chen Yang, Yuhao Wei, Ze Xu, Ziheng Zou, Shuang Liang, Delin Ouyang, Lingfeng Qi, Jie Li, Guofa Li
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.
By Yanbo Jiang, Haotian Zheng, Jiahao Wang, Hanxiao Ren, Yitao Xu, Yining Xing, Zehong Ke, Hao Cheng, Yiqian Tu, Jinhao Li, Zhiyuan Xuan, Fang Zhang, Jianqiang Wang
arXiv:2607. 07844v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While closed-loop motion planners trained on large-scale, object-level datasets, e.
By Alessandro Canevaro, Hang Yu, Julian Schmidt, Peizheng Li, Silvan Lindner, Wilhelm Stork, Georg Martius, Julian Jordan
arXiv:2607. 07601v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety evaluation for autonomous driving is dominated by rare, safety-critical interactions, motivating simulators that can deliberately synthesize corner cases with photorealistic observations.
By Kaicong Huang, Meng Ma, Ruimin Ke