Autonomous Driving

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Autonomous driving studies how vehicles can sense their surroundings, anticipate other road users, and choose safe, effective actions in traffic. Systems range from modular stacks that connect camera, LiDAR, and radar perception to prediction and model-predictive control, to end-to-end policies trained with imitation learning, reinforcement learning, or vision-language and world models. Researchers evaluate these methods on datasets such as nuScenes, Waymo, and Argoverse, in simulators such as CARLA and nuPlan, and through physical vehicle tests. A central challenge is turning strong benchmark results into reliable closed-loop behavior across rare events, changing conditions, and real-world deployment constraints.

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538 papers53 papers in the last four weeks, down 9% on the four weeks before. 0.3% of all new papers.

  1. ESIA: An Energy-Based Spatiotemporal Interaction-Aware Framework for Pedestrian Intention Prediction

    Apr 26, 2026Yanping Wu, Meiting Dang, Lin Wu +3Pedestrian Intention PredictionPedestrian Behavior Modeling

    James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom · School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom

  2. Large Language Model based Interactive Decision-Making for Autonomous Driving

    Apr 26, 2026Xinwei Dong, Jiyang Li, Jiabin Xie +5Language Model-Based ControlAutonomous Driving

    College of Transportation, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China · School of Automotive Studies, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China

  3. TRACE: Topology-aware Reconstruction of Accidents in CARLA for AV Evaluation

    Apr 23, 2026Nahian Salsabil, Sebastian ElbaumAutonomous Driving DatasetsAutonomous Driving Benchmarks

    University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

  4. Robust Localization for Autonomous Vehicles in Highway Scenes

    Apr 23, 2026Daqian Cheng, Xuchu Ding, Yujia Wu +2Autonomous Driving DatasetsAutonomous Driving

    Bot Auto · Archer Aviation · Prexa AI

  5. Frozen LLMs as Map-Aware Spatio-Temporal Reasoners for Vehicle Trajectory Prediction

    Apr 23, 2026Yanjiao Liu, Jiawei Liu, Xun Gong +1Multi-Agent Trajectory PredictionAutonomous Driving

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, PR China.

  6. OVPD: A Virtual-Physical Fusion Testing Dataset of OnSite Auton-omous Driving Challenge

    Apr 22, 2026Yuhang Zhang, Jiarui Zhang, Bowen Jian +6Autonomous Driving DatasetsAutonomous Driving Benchmarks

    College of Transportation, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China.

  7. SwarmDrive: Semantic V2V Coordination for Latency-Constrained Cooperative Autonomous Driving

    Apr 22, 2026Anjie Qiu, Donglin Wang, Zexin Fang +2Multi-Agent CoordinationAutonomous Driving

    Institute for Wireless Communication and Navigation

  8. Toward Cooperative Driving in Mixed Traffic: An Adaptive Potential Game-Based Approach with Field Test Verification

    Apr 22, 2026Shiyu Fang, Xiaocong Zhao, Xuekai Liu +4Intelligent Transportation SystemsAutonomous Driving

    Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering of the State, Ministry of Education, Tongji University, Shanghai, 201804, China · State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Green Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China · State Key Lab of Intelligent Transportation System, School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China

  9. SGAP-Gaze: Scene Grid Attention Based Point-of-Gaze Estimation Network for Driver Gaze

    Apr 21, 2026Pavan Kumar Sharma, Pranamesh ChakrabortyGaze EstimationAutonomous Driving

    Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur-208016, India

  10. SpanVLA: Learning from Negative-Recovery Samples with Fast Action Bridging for Vision-Language-Action Model

    Apr 21, 2026Zewei Zhou, Ruining Yang, Xuewei Qi +7VLMs for Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving

    Tony · University of California, Los Angeles, USA · Motional, USA +1

  11. PanDA: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Multimodal 3D Panoptic Segmentation in Autonomous Driving

    Apr 21, 2026Yining Pan, Shijie Li, Yuchen Wu +2Unsupervised Domain AdaptationMultimodal Robustness

    Singapore University of Technology and Design · Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore

  12. Mind2Drive: Predicting Driver Intentions from EEG in Real-world On-Road Driving

    Apr 21, 2026Ghadah Alosaimi, Hanadi Alhamdan, Wenke E +3ElectroencephalographyEEG Decoding

    Department of Computer Science, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia · Department of {2Computer Science, 3Engineering}, Durham University, UK · Department of Computer Science, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Saudi Arabia

  13. Towards a Systematic Risk Assessment of Deep Neural Network Limitations in Autonomous Driving Perception

    Apr 21, 2026Svetlana Pavlitska, Christopher Gerking, J. Marius ZöllnerAI Risk ManagementAutonomous Driving Safety Evaluation

    FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

  14. ST-Prune: Training-Free Spatio-Temporal Token Pruning for Vision-Language Models in Autonomous Driving

    Apr 21, 2026Lin Sha, Haiyun Guo, Tao Wang +4VLMs for Autonomous DrivingEfficient VLM Inference

    School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · Carizon, Beijing 100094, China

  15. AutoAWG: Adverse Weather Generation with Adaptive Multi-Controls for Automotive Videos

    Apr 21, 2026Jiagao Hu, Daiguo Zhou, Danzhen Fu +6Synthetic Data AugmentationLong-Horizon Video Generation

    MiLM Plus, Xiaomi Inc. · Wuhan, China · Xiaomi Inc. +1

  16. Xiaomi OneVL: One-Step Latent Reasoning and Planning with Vision-Language Explanation

    Apr 20, 2026Jinghui Lu, Jiayi Guan, Zhijian Huang +47Trajectory GenerationVLMs for Autonomous Driving

  17. ParkingScenes: A Structured Dataset for End-to-End Autonomous Parking in Simulation Scenes

    Apr 20, 2026Haonan Chen, Kaiwen Xiao, Bin Tian +1Autonomous Driving DatasetsEnd-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing, China +3

  18. Driving risk emerges from the required two-dimensional joint evasive acceleration

    Apr 20, 2026Hao Cheng, Yanbo Jiang, Wenhao Yu +9Collision AvoidanceAutonomous Driving Safety Evaluation

    School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China · State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Green Vehicle and Mobility, Beijing 100084, China · School of Traffic & Transportation Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410000, China +2

  19. OptiMVMap: Offline Vectorized Map Construction via Optimal Multi-vehicle Perspectives

    Apr 18, 2026Zedong Dan, Zijie Wang, Wei Zhang +6Multi-View LearningAutonomous Driving

    Sun Yat-sen University · Zhongguancun Academy · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute +2

  20. Autonomous Vehicle Collision Avoidance With Racing Parameterized Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Apr 17, 2026Shathushan Sivashangaran, Vihaan Dutta, Apoorva Khairnar +2OOD GeneralizationAutonomous Driving

    Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284, USA · University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA · Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

  21. AD4AD: Benchmarking Visual Anomaly Detection Models for Safer Autonomous Driving

    Apr 16, 2026Fabrizio Genilotti, Arianna Stropeni, Gionata Grotto +4Autonomous DrivingAnomaly Localization

    University of Padova, Italy

  22. Drowsiness-Aware Adaptive Autonomous Braking System based on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Enhanced Road Safety

    Apr 15, 2026Hossem Eddine Hafidi, Elisabetta De Giovanni, Teodoro Montanaro +3Autonomous DrivingRL for Autonomous Driving

    University of Salento, Lecce, Italy. · Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Lecce, Italy. · Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM), Bilbao, Spain

  23. Radar-Informed 3D Multi-Object Tracking under Adverse Conditions

    Apr 15, 2026Bingxue Xu, Emil Hedemalm, Ajinkya Khoche +13D MOTMultimodal Robustness

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 10044, Sweden.

  24. Forecasting the Past: Gradient-Based Distribution Shift Detection in Trajectory Prediction

    Apr 14, 2026Michele De Vita, Julian Wiederer, Vasileios BelagiannisDistribution Shift DetectionOOD Detection

    Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany · Mercedes-Benz AG, Germany

  25. RACF: A Resilient Autonomous Car Framework with Object Distance Correction

    Apr 14, 2026Chieh Tsai, Hossein Rastgoftar, Salim HaririAutonomous DrivingAdversarial Robustness

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA · Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

  26. Security and Resilience in Autonomous Vehicles: A Proactive Design Approach

    Apr 14, 2026Chieh Tsai, Murad Mehrab Abrar, Salim HaririAutonomous DrivingAutonomous Cyber Defense

  27. Defining an Evaluation Method for External Human-Machine Interfaces

    Apr 14, 2026Jose Gonzalez-Belmonte, Jaerock KwonAutonomous DrivingV2X Communication

    Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Rd, Dearborn, 48128, Michigan, United States of America. · Math and Computer Science, Lawrence Technological University, 21000 W Ten Mile Rd, Southfield, 48076, Michigan, United States of America.

  28. Unveiling the Surprising Efficacy of Navigation Understanding in End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Apr 14, 2026Zhihua Hua, Junli Wang, Pengfei LI +6Autonomous DrivingEnd-to-End Autonomous Driving

    College of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing, Fudan University, China · Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences +1

  29. SCORP: Scene-Consistent Multi-agent Diffusion Planning with Stable Online Reinforcement Post-Training for Cooperative Driving

    Apr 13, 2026Haojie Bai, Aimin Li, Ruoyu Yao +5Autonomous Driving PlanningAutonomous Driving

    the School of Information Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen 518071, China · the Middle East Technology University (METU), Ankara, 06800, Turkiye · the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Thrust, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511453, China +1

  30. Using Unwrapped Full Color Space Recording to Measure the Exposedness of Vehicle Exterior Parts for External Human Machine Interfaces

    Apr 13, 2026Jose Gonzalez-Belmonte, Jaerock KwonAutonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving Safety Evaluation

    Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, United States of America