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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:2603. 06576v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous driving has attracted growing interest for their strong reasoning and semantic understanding abilities, which are essential for handling complex decision-making and long-tail scenarios.
arXiv:2609.14185v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Bird's Eye View (BEV)-based multi-view 3D object detection suffers from challenges of computational complexity, multi-scale feature extraction, and e...
MapLightning introduces a new approach to online vectorized HD map construction that replaces dense bird’s‑eye‑view grids with a compact set of 1D learnable map tokens. Using a transformer‑based mapper that applies full self‑attention to combined image and map tokens, the method achieves efficient inference, lower memory usage, and improved global context without relying on camera projection parameters. Experiments on nuScenes and Argoverse 2 show state‑of‑the‑art accuracy, with a lightweight variant outperforming MapTRv2 by over 10 mAP and running 1.73× faster at 40+ FPS while using 53 % less memory.
arXiv:2503.13938v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Comprehensive traffic scene understanding is a foundational capability for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) underpinning applications...
Qwen-Drive-1.0 is a vision‑language foundation model tailored for autonomous driving that builds on a pretrained VLM architecture. It incorporates a bird’s‑eye‑view perception head for 3D object detection, semantic occupancy prediction, and BEV map segmentation, and a Planning Expert that generates future ego trajectories from shared representations. Experiments show strong 3D perception, driving scene understanding, and competitive motion‑planning performance while largely preserving general vision‑language capabilities.