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Spatiotemporal Facial Action Unit Detection using Twin Cycle Autoencoders for Driver Monitoring

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arXiv:2607. 16760v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Driver monitoring systems (DMS) increasingly rely on facial cues to infer drowsiness, distraction, and cognitive load in real time.

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arXiv AI
Jul 8

HST-HGN: Heterogeneous Spatial-Temporal Hypergraph Networks with Bidirectional State Space Models for Global Fatigue Assessment

arXiv:2604. 08435v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: It remains challenging to assess driver fatigue from untrimmed videos under constrained computational budgets, due to the difficulty of modeling long-range temporal dependencies in subtle facial expressions.

By Changdao Chen, Qinqiuhong Ye, Hao Chen, Jinyu Wang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

Continuous Actions from Discrete Minds: Latent-Aligned Planning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

The paper introduces LaPla, a Vision‑Language‑Action framework that uses a latent‑aligned planning approach to convert discrete semantic reasoning into continuous, physics‑constrained driving actions. It employs a residual VQ‑VAE to encode vehicle kinematics into a structured latent space, then projects multimodal inputs—images, past actions, and text—directly into this latent space, allowing a frozen decoder to generate physically plausible trajectories without quantization errors. Experiments on nuScenes and NVIDIA AlpaSim show LaPla reduces long‑horizon L2 error by 15.52% and improves closed‑loop success rates by 33.34 percentage points while cutting inference latency.

By Ruoyu Yao, Yusen Xie, Qingzhao Liu, Pei Liu, Zewei Yang, Yipeng Zhu, Xiaolong Wang, Jun Ma
arXiv AI
Jun 2

From Segments to Scenes: Temporal Understanding in Autonomous Driving via Vision-Language Model

arXiv:2512. 05277v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed as the perception and reasoning backbone of autonomous agents acting in the wild, with autonomous driving (AD) being one of the most safety-critical instances.

By Kevin Cannons, Saeed Ranjbar Alvar, Mohammad Asiful Hossain, Ahmad Rezaei, Mohsen Gholami, Alireza Heidarikhazaei, Zhou Weimin, Yong Zhang, Mohammad Akbari