no code implementations • 21 Mar 2024 • Ricardo Cannizzaro, Michael Groom, Jonathan Routley, Robert Osazuwa Ness, Lars Kunze
Safe and efficient object manipulation is a key enabler of many real-world robot applications.
no code implementations • 19 Mar 2024 • Sule Tekkesinoglu, Azra Habibovic, Lars Kunze
Given the uncertainty surrounding how existing explainability methods for autonomous vehicles (AVs) meet the diverse needs of stakeholders, a thorough investigation is imperative to determine the contexts requiring explanations and suitable interaction strategies.
no code implementations • 13 Mar 2024 • Samuel Sze, Lars Kunze
In autonomous vehicles, understanding the surrounding 3D environment of the ego vehicle in real-time is essential.
3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction 3D Semantic Segmentation +1
no code implementations • 21 Feb 2024 • David Fernández Llorca, Ronan Hamon, Henrik Junklewitz, Kathrin Grosse, Lars Kunze, Patrick Seiniger, Robert Swaim, Nick Reed, Alexandre Alahi, Emilia Gómez, Ignacio Sánchez, Akos Kriston
This study explores the complexities of integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into Autonomous Vehicles (AVs), examining the challenges introduced by AI components and the impact on testing procedures, focusing on some of the essential requirements for trustworthy AI.
no code implementations • 16 Feb 2024 • Jianhao Yuan, Shuyang Sun, Daniel Omeiza, Bo Zhao, Paul Newman, Lars Kunze, Matthew Gadd
Recent advancements in Multi-Modal Large Language models (MLLMs) have shown promising potential in enhancing the explainability as a driving agent by producing control predictions along with natural language explanations.
no code implementations • 4 Oct 2023 • Jaewon La, Jaime Phadke, Matt Hutton, Marius Schwinning, Gabriele De Canio, Florian Renk, Lars Kunze, Matthew Gadd
We train a CycleGAN model to synthesise LROC from Planet and Asteroid Natural Scene Generation Utility (PANGU) images.
no code implementations • 18 Sep 2023 • George Drayson, Efimia Panagiotaki, Daniel Omeiza, Lars Kunze
Corner case scenarios are an essential tool for testing and validating the safety of autonomous vehicles (AVs).
no code implementations • 25 Aug 2023 • Enrik Maci, Rhys Howard, Lars Kunze
We use reinforcement learning techniques to modify this policy and to generate realistic and explainable corner case scenarios which can be used for assessing the safety of AVs.
no code implementations • 19 Aug 2023 • Ricardo Cannizzaro, Rhys Howard, Paulina Lewinska, Lars Kunze
Here we identify challenges relating to causality in the context of a drone system operating in a salt mine.
no code implementations • 11 Aug 2023 • Ricardo Cannizzaro, Jonathan Routley, Lars Kunze
Uncertainties in the real world mean that is impossible for system designers to anticipate and explicitly design for all scenarios that a robot might encounter.
no code implementations • 8 Aug 2023 • Efimia Panagiotaki, Daniele De Martini, Lars Kunze
In this work, we propose a methodology for investigating the use of semantic attention to enhance the explainability of Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based models.
1 code implementation • 7 Aug 2023 • Efimia Panagiotaki, Daniele De Martini, Georgi Pramatarov, Matthew Gadd, Lars Kunze
This paper proposes a Graph Neural Network(GNN)-based method for exploiting semantics and local geometry to guide the identification of reliable pointcloud registration candidates.
no code implementations • 2 Jul 2023 • Daniel Omeiza, Raunak Bhattacharyya, Nick Hawes, Marina Jirotka, Lars Kunze
In this paper, we investigate the effects of natural language explanations' specificity on passengers in autonomous driving.
1 code implementation • 6 Jun 2023 • Rhys Howard, Lars Kunze
Being able to reason about how one's behaviour can affect the behaviour of others is a core skill required of intelligent driving agents.
no code implementations • 13 Apr 2023 • Ricardo Cannizzaro, Lars Kunze
Robots operating in real-world environments must reason about possible outcomes of stochastic actions and make decisions based on partial observations of the true world state.
1 code implementation • 12 Apr 2023 • Marc Alexander Kühn, Daniel Omeiza, Lars Kunze
In this work, a state-of-the-art (SOTA) prediction and explanation model is thoroughly evaluated and validated (as a benchmark) on the new Sense--Assess--eXplain (SAX).
no code implementations • 7 Feb 2023 • Pawit Kochakarn, Daniele De Martini, Daniel Omeiza, Lars Kunze
This work explores scene graphs as a distilled representation of high-level information for autonomous driving, applied to future driver-action prediction.
1 code implementation • 31 Jan 2023 • Rhys Howard, Lars Kunze
Autonomous robots are required to reason about the behaviour of dynamic agents in their environment.
no code implementations • 19 Apr 2022 • Daniel Omeiza, Sule Anjomshoae, Helena Webb, Marina Jirotka, Lars Kunze
In the intelligent vehicle context, automated driving commentary can provide intelligible explanations about driving actions, thereby assisting a driver or an end-user during driving operations in challenging and safety-critical scenarios.
no code implementations • 9 Mar 2021 • Daniel Omeiza, Helena Webb, Marina Jirotka, Lars Kunze
With the hope to deploy autonomous vehicles (AV) on a commercial scale, the acceptance of AV by society becomes paramount and may largely depend on their degree of transparency, trustworthiness, and compliance with regulations.
no code implementations • 11 Jul 2019 • Tarlan Suleymanov, Lars Kunze, Paul Newman
Hence, we believe that our LIDAR-based approach provides an efficient and effective way to detect visible and occluded curbs around the vehicles in challenging driving scenarios.
no code implementations • 10 Jul 2019 • Tom Bruls, Horia Porav, Lars Kunze, Paul Newman
Road markings provide guidance to traffic participants and enforce safe driving behaviour, understanding their semantic meaning is therefore paramount in (automated) driving.
no code implementations • 3 Dec 2018 • Tom Bruls, Horia Porav, Lars Kunze, Paul Newman
Many tasks performed by autonomous vehicles such as road marking detection, object tracking, and path planning are simpler in bird's-eye view.
no code implementations • 13 Jul 2018 • Lars Kunze, Nick Hawes, Tom Duckett, Marc Hanheide, Tomáš Krajník
Autonomous systems will play an essential role in many applications across diverse domains including space, marine, air, field, road, and service robotics.