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Julian Schmidt

8 accepted papers

2026

Learning Location-Specific Latent Behavior Priors for Occupancy Prediction in Automated Driving

ICRA 2026poster

Performance in automated driving tasks improves significantly with the incorporation of location-specific prior knowledge. This is because agent behavior usually strongly correlates with location features. A common example is the strong tendency of vehicles to follow their lane, but less obvious int…

Cited by 0Scholar
2026

MASAR: Motion–Appearance Synergy Refinement for Joint Detection and Trajectory Forecasting

ICRA 2026poster

Classical autonomous driving systems connect perception and prediction modules via hand-crafted bounding-box interfaces, limiting information flow and propagating errors to downstream tasks. Recent research aims to develop end-to-end models that jointly address perception and prediction; however, th…

2025

Advancing Out-of-Distribution Detection via Local Neuroplasticity

ICLR 2025poster

In the domain of machine learning, the assumption that training and test data share the same distribution is often violated in real-world scenarios, requiring effective out-of-distribution (OOD) detection. This paper presents a novel OOD detection method that leverages the unique local neuroplastic…

2025

Evidential Uncertainty Estimation for Multi-Modal Trajectory Prediction

IROS 2025

Accurate trajectory prediction is crucial for autonomous driving, yet uncertainty in agent behavior and perception noise makes it inherently challenging. While multi-modal trajectory prediction models generate multiple plausible future paths with associated probabilities, effectively quantifying unc

Cited by 5SourceScholar
2023

Exploring Navigation Maps for Learning-Based Motion Prediction

ICRA 2023poster

The prediction of surrounding agents' motion is a key for safe autonomous driving. In this paper, we explore navigation maps as an alternative to the predominant High Definition (HD) maps for learning-based motion prediction. Navigation maps provide topological and geometrical information on road-le…

Cited by 6SourcecodeScholar
2023

Joint Out-of-Distribution Detection and Uncertainty Estimation for Trajectory Prediction

IROS 2023poster

Despite the significant research efforts on trajectory prediction for automated driving, limited work exists on assessing the prediction reliability. To address this limitation we propose an approach that covers two sources of error, namely novel situations with out-of-distribution (OOD) detection a…

Cited by 6SourcecodeScholar
2023

SCENE: Reasoning About Traffic Scenes Using Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks

RA-L 2023

Understanding traffic scenes requires considering heterogeneous information about dynamic agents and the static infrastructure. In this work we propose SCENE, a methodology to encode diverse traffic scenes in heterogeneous graphs and to reason about these graphs using a heterogeneous Graph Neural Ne

Cited by 43SourcecodeScholar
2022

CRAT-Pred: Vehicle Trajectory Prediction with Crystal Graph Convolutional Neural Networks and Multi-Head Self-Attention

ICRA 2022poster

Predicting the motion of surrounding vehicles is essential for autonomous vehicles, as it governs their own motion plan. Current state-of-the-art vehicle prediction models heavily rely on map information. In reality, however, this information is not always available. We therefore propose CRAT-Pred,…

Cited by 72SourcecodeScholar