no code implementations • 17 May 2023 • Benjamin Thérien, Chengjie Huang, Adrian Chow, Krzysztof Czarnecki
To our knowledge, we are the first to study object re-identification from real point cloud observations.
no code implementations • 13 Mar 2023 • Atrisha Sarkar, Kate Larson, Krzysztof Czarnecki
A central design problem in game theoretic analysis is the estimation of the players' utilities.
no code implementations • CVPR 2023 • Luke Rowe, Martin Ethier, Eli-Henry Dykhne, Krzysztof Czarnecki
In this work, we address the problem of generating a set of scene-level, or joint, future trajectory predictions in multi-agent driving scenarios.
1 code implementation • 20 Oct 2022 • Sunsheng Gu, Vahdat Abdelzad, Krzysztof Czarnecki
We evaluate the effectiveness of XC scores via the task of distinguishing true positive (TP) and false positive (FP) detected objects in the KITTI and Waymo datasets.
3D Object Detection
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
+1
no code implementations • 5 Oct 2022 • Luke Rowe, Benjamin Thérien, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Hongyang Zhang
In adversarial machine learning, the popular $\ell_\infty$ threat model has been the focus of much previous work.
no code implementations • 3 Oct 2022 • Benjamin Thérien, Krzysztof Czarnecki
By enumerating different tracking decisions and associated reasoning procedures, we can train individual networks to reason about the possible decisions via IIT.
no code implementations • 28 Sep 2022 • Chengjie Huang, Van Duong Nguyen, Vahdat Abdelzad, Christopher Gus Mannes, Luke Rowe, Benjamin Therien, Rick Salay, Krzysztof Czarnecki
Detecting OOD inputs is challenging and essential for the safe deployment of models.
1 code implementation • 28 Jun 2022 • Prarthana Bhattacharyya, Chengjie Huang, Krzysztof Czarnecki
Self-supervised learning (SSL) is an emerging technique that has been successfully employed to train convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and graph neural networks (GNNs) for more transferable, generalizable, and robust representation learning.
Ranked #59 on
Motion Forecasting
on Argoverse CVPR 2020
no code implementations • 1 Jun 2022 • Matthew Pitropov, Chengjie Huang, Vahdat Abdelzad, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Steven Waslander
The estimation of uncertainty in robotic vision, such as 3D object detection, is an essential component in developing safe autonomous systems aware of their own performance.
no code implementations • 1 Jun 2022 • Scott Larter, Rodrigo Queiroz, Sean Sedwards, Atrisha Sarkar, Krzysztof Czarnecki
Modelling pedestrian behavior is crucial in the development and testing of autonomous vehicles.
no code implementations • 10 May 2022 • Rick Salay, Krzysztof Czarnecki
While research in addressing these limitations is active, in this paper, we argue that a fundamentally different approach is needed to address them.
no code implementations • 8 Feb 2022 • Boyue Caroline Hu, Lina Marsso, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Rick Salay, Huakun Shen, Marsha Chechik
In this paper, we address the need for defining machine-verifiable reliability requirements for MVCs against transformations that simulate the full range of realistic and safety-critical changes in the environment.
no code implementations • 20 Jan 2022 • Jaeyoung Lee, Sean Sedwards, Krzysztof Czarnecki
In this work, after describing and motivating our problem with a simple example, we present a suitable constrained reinforcement learning algorithm that prevents learning instability, using recursive constraints.
no code implementations • 27 Sep 2021 • Atrisha Sarkar, Kate Larson, Krzysztof Czarnecki
In order to enable autonomous vehicles (AV) to navigate busy traffic situations, in recent years there has been a focus on game-theoretic models for strategic behavior planning in AVs.
no code implementations • 20 Sep 2021 • Maximilian Kahn, Atrisha Sarkar, Krzysztof Czarnecki
A particular challenge for both autonomous and human driving is dealing with risk associated with dynamic occlusion, i. e., occlusion caused by other vehicles in traffic.
no code implementations • 20 Sep 2021 • Atrisha Sarkar, Kate Larson, Krzysztof Czarnecki
While there has been an increasing focus on the use of game theoretic models for autonomous driving, empirical evidence shows that there are still open questions around dealing with the challenges of common knowledge assumptions as well as modeling bounded rationality.
no code implementations • 30 Aug 2021 • Rick Salay, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Hiroshi Kuwajima, Hirotoshi Yasuoka, Toshihiro Nakae, Vahdat Abdelzad, Chengjie Huang, Maximilian Kahn, Van Duong Nguyen
In this paper, we propose the Integration Safety Case for Perception (ISCaP), a generic template for such a linking safety argument specifically tailored for perception components.
1 code implementation • 7 Jan 2021 • Prarthana Bhattacharyya, Chengjie Huang, Krzysztof Czarnecki
In this paper, we propose two variants of self-attention for contextual modeling in 3D object detection by augmenting convolutional features with self-attention features.
Ranked #1 on
3D Object Detection
on KITTI Cyclists Hard
no code implementations • 10 Oct 2020 • Henry Chen, Robin Cohen, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Edith Law, Krzysztof Czarnecki
Based on the results, we distill twelve practical design recommendations for AV visual signals, with focus on signal pattern design and placement.
1 code implementation • 21 Sep 2020 • Atrisha Sarkar, Krzysztof Czarnecki
With autonomous vehicles (AV) set to integrate further into regular human traffic, there is an increasing consensus of treating AV motion planning as a multi-agent problem.
2 code implementations • 20 Aug 2020 • Prarthana Bhattacharyya, Krzysztof Czarnecki
We present Deformable PV-RCNN, a high-performing point-cloud based 3D object detector.
Ranked #1 on
3D Object Detection
on KITTI Cyclists Moderate val
no code implementations • 25 Jun 2020 • Vahdat Abdelzad, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Rick Salay
In addition to comparing several OODD approaches using our proposed robustness score, we demonstrate that some optimization methods provide better solutions for OODD approaches.
Out-of-Distribution Detection
Out of Distribution (OOD) Detection
1 code implementation • 27 Jan 2020 • Matthew Pitropov, Danson Garcia, Jason Rebello, Michael Smart, Carlos Wang, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Steven Waslander
The Canadian Adverse Driving Conditions (CADC) dataset was collected with the Autonomoose autonomous vehicle platform, based on a modified Lincoln MKZ.
no code implementations • 7 Nov 2019 • Matt Angus, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Rick Salay
The detection of out of distribution samples for image classification has been widely researched.
1 code implementation • 23 Oct 2019 • Vahdat Abdelzad, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Rick Salay, Taylor Denounden, Sachin Vernekar, Buu Phan
Several approaches have been proposed to detect OOD inputs, but the detection task is still an ongoing challenge.
1 code implementation • 9 Oct 2019 • Sachin Vernekar, Ashish Gaurav, Vahdat Abdelzad, Taylor Denouden, Rick Salay, Krzysztof Czarnecki
By design, discriminatively trained neural network classifiers produce reliable predictions only for in-distribution samples.
Out-of-Distribution Detection
Out of Distribution (OOD) Detection
1 code implementation • 25 Sep 2019 • Sachin Vernekar, Ashish Gaurav, Vahdat Abdelzad, Taylor Denouden, Rick Salay, Krzysztof Czarnecki
In the context of OOD detection for image classification, one of the recent approaches proposes training a classifier called “confident-classifier” by minimizing the standard cross-entropy loss on in-distribution samples and minimizing the KLdivergence between the predictive distribution of OOD samples in the low-density“boundary” of in-distribution and the uniform distribution (maximizing the entropy of the outputs).
Out-of-Distribution Detection
Out of Distribution (OOD) Detection
1 code implementation • 17 Sep 2019 • Braden Hurl, Robin Cohen, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Steven Waslander
Inter-vehicle communication for autonomous vehicles (AVs) stands to provide significant benefits in terms of perception robustness.
no code implementations • 9 Sep 2019 • Jian Deng, Krzysztof Czarnecki
The detector takes an RGB image and a LIDAR point cloud as input and follows the two-stage object detection framework.
no code implementations • 21 Aug 2019 • Marko Ilievski, Sean Sedwards, Ashish Gaurav, Aravind Balakrishnan, Atrisha Sarkar, Jaeyoung Lee, Frédéric Bouchard, Ryan De Iaco, Krzysztof Czarnecki
We explore the complex design space of behaviour planning for autonomous driving.
no code implementations • 24 May 2019 • Changjian Li, Krzysztof Czarnecki
The standard reinforcement learning (RL) formulation considers the expectation of the (discounted) cumulative reward.
1 code implementation • 7 May 2019 • Erkan Baser, Venkateshwaran Balasubramanian, Prarthana Bhattacharyya, Krzysztof Czarnecki
Instead, we exploit the power of deep learning to formulate the data association problem as inference in a CNN.
Ranked #4 on
3D Multi-Object Tracking
on KITTI
4 code implementations • 1 May 2019 • Braden Hurl, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Steven Waslander
We introduce the Precise Synthetic Image and LiDAR (PreSIL) dataset for autonomous vehicle perception.
1 code implementation • 27 Apr 2019 • Sachin Vernekar, Ashish Gaurav, Taylor Denouden, Buu Phan, Vahdat Abdelzad, Rick Salay, Krzysztof Czarnecki
Discriminatively trained neural classifiers can be trusted, only when the input data comes from the training distribution (in-distribution).
1 code implementation • 5 Mar 2019 • Ryan De Iaco, Stephen L. Smith, Krzysztof Czarnecki
This paper introduces a method to compute a sparse lattice planner control set that is suited to a particular task by learning from a representative dataset of vehicle paths.
no code implementations • 3 Mar 2019 • Krzysztof Czarnecki, Rick Salay
Perception is a safety-critical function of autonomous vehicles and machine learning (ML) plays a key role in its implementation.
no code implementations • 11 Feb 2019 • Jaeyoung Lee, Aravind Balakrishnan, Ashish Gaurav, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Sean Sedwards
Machine learning can provide efficient solutions to the complex problems encountered in autonomous driving, but ensuring their safety remains a challenge.
no code implementations • 6 Dec 2018 • Taylor Denouden, Rick Salay, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Vahdat Abdelzad, Buu Phan, Sachin Vernekar
There is an increasingly apparent need for validating the classifications made by deep learning systems in safety-critical applications like autonomous vehicle systems.
no code implementations • 27 Nov 2018 • Buu Phan, Rick Salay, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Vahdat Abdelzad, Taylor Denouden, Sachin Vernekar
In many safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving and surgical robots, it is desirable to obtain prediction uncertainties from object detection modules to help support safe decision-making.
1 code implementation • 21 Nov 2018 • Changjian Li, Krzysztof Czarnecki
Autonomous driving is a challenging domain that entails multiple aspects: a vehicle should be able to drive to its destination as fast as possible while avoiding collision, obeying traffic rules and ensuring the comfort of passengers.
no code implementations • 5 Aug 2018 • Rick Salay, Krzysztof Czarnecki
In automotive development, safety is a critical objective, and the emergence of standards such as ISO 26262 has helped focus industry practices to address safety in a systematic and consistent way.
no code implementations • 16 Jul 2018 • Matt Angus, Mohamed ElBalkini, Samin Khan, Ali Harakeh, Oles Andrienko, Cody Reading, Steven Waslander, Krzysztof Czarnecki
Utilizing open-source tools and resources found in single-player modding communities, we provide a method for persistent, ground truth, asset annotation of a game world.
no code implementations • 7 Sep 2017 • Rick Salay, Rodrigo Queiroz, Krzysztof Czarnecki
We then provide a set of recommendations on how to adapt the standard to accommodate ML.
no code implementations • 26 Jun 2017 • Edward Zulkoski, Ruben Martins, Christoph Wintersteiger, Robert Robere, Jia Liang, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Vijay Ganesh
Over the years complexity theorists have proposed many structural parameters to explain the surprising efficiency of conflict-driven clause-learning (CDCL) SAT solvers on a wide variety of large industrial Boolean instances.
1 code implementation • 17 Jun 2015 • Jia Hui Liang, Vijay Ganesh, Venkatesh Raman, Krzysztof Czarnecki
We discovered that a key reason why large real-world FMs are easy-to-analyze is that the vast majority of the variables in these models are unrestricted, i. e., the models are satisfiable for both true and false assignments to such variables under the current partial assignment.