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PolarStream

Streaming Lidar Object Detection and Segmentation with Point Pillars

Authors: Qi Chen, Sourabh Vora, Oscar Beijbom

Published: June 14, 2021

nuReality

A VR environment for research of pedestrian and autonomous vehicle interactions

Authors: Paul Schmitt, Nicholas Britten, JiHyun Jeong, Amelia Coffey, Kevin Clark, Shweta Sunil Kothawade, Elena Corina Grigore, Adam Khaw, Christopher Konopka, Linh Pham, Kim Ryan, Christopher Schmitt, Aryaman Pandya, Emilio Frazzoli

Published: Jan. 12, 2022

Prediction

Multimodal Trajectory Prediction Conditioned on Lane-Graph Traversals

Authors: Nachiket Deo, Eric M. Wolff, Oscar Beijbom

Published: Sept. 15, 2021

The Reasonable Crowd

Towards evidence-based and interpretable models of driving behavior

Authors: Bassam Helou, Aditya Dusi, Anne Collin, Noushin Mehdipour, Zhiliang Chen, Cristhian Lizarazo, Calin Belta, Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn, Radboud Duintjer Tebbens, Oscar Beijbom

Published: July 28, 2021

nuPlan

A closed-loop ML-based planning benchmark for autonomous vehicles

Authors: Holger Caesar, Juraj Kabzan, Kok Seang Tan, Whye Kit Fong, Eric Wolff, Alex Lang, Luke Fletcher, Oscar Beijbom, Sammy Omari

Published: July 12, 2021

Plane and Sample

Maximizing Information about Autonomous Vehicle Performance using Submodular Optimization

Authors: Anne Collin, Amitai Y. Bin-Nun, Radboud Duintjer Tebbens

Published: June 15, 2021

Controls

Rule-based Optimal Control for Autonomous Driving

Authors: Wei Xiao, Noushin Mehdipour, Anne Collin, Amitai Bin-Nun, Emilio Frazzoli, Radboud Duintjer Tebbens, Calin Belta

Published: Jan. 14, 2021

Prediction

Motion Prediction using Trajectory Sets and Self-Driving Domain Knowledge

Authors: Freddy A. Boulton, Elena Corina Grigore, Eric M. Wolff

Published: Jan. 13, 2021

AMVNet

Assertion-based Multi-View Fusion Network for LiDAR Semantic Segmentation

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Published: Dec. 9, 2020

Safety

Safety of the Intended Driving Behavior Using Rulebooks

Authors: Anne Collin, Artur Bilka, Scott Pendleton, Radboud Duintjer Tebbens

Published: Nov. 11, 2020

PointPainting

Sequential Fusion for 3D Object Detection

Authors: Sourabh Vora, Alex H. Lang, Bassam Helou, Oscar Beijbom

Published: May 6, 2020

CoverNet

Multimodal Behavior Prediction using Trajectory Sets

Authors: Tung Phan-Minh, Elena Corina Grigore, Freddy A. Boulton, Oscar Beijbom, Eric M. Wolff

Published: April 1, 2020

Controls

On Maximizing Lateral Clearance of an Autonomous Vehicle in Urban Environments

Authors: Francesco Seccamonte, Juraj Kabzan, Emilio Frazzoli

Published: Sept. 1, 2019

PointPillars

Fast Encoders for Object Detection from Point Clouds

Authors: Alex H. Lang, Sourabh Vora, Holger Caesar, Lubing Zhou, Jiong Yang, Oscar Beijbom

Published: May 7, 2019

Rulebooks

Liability, Ethics, and Culture-Aware Behavior Specification using Rulebooks

Authors: Andrea Censi, Konstantin Slutsky, Tichakorn Wongpiromsarn, Dmitry Yershov, Scott Pendleton, James Fu, Emilio Frazzoli

Published: May 1, 2019