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Laura Zheng

9 accepted papers

2026

SSQA: Sibling-Selective Quadtree Attention for Hierarchical Modeling in Perception Tasks

ICRA 2026poster

Perception tasks for navigation in robotics, including aerial platforms such as drones and autonomous driving systems, are inherently structured. Drone-mounted cameras typically capture sky above, terrain below, and obstacles or man-made structures in between, while driving data often contains organ…

Cited by 0Scholar
2025

DISC: Dataset for Analyzing Driving Styles in Simulated Crashes for Mixed Autonomy

ICRA 2025

Handling pre-crash scenarios is still a major challenge for self-driving cars due to limited practical data and human-driving behavior datasets. We introduce DISC (Driving Styles In Simulated Crashes), one of the first datasets designed to capture various driving styles and behaviors in precrash sce

Cited by 2SourceScholar
2025

Gradient-Based Trajectory Optimization with Parallelized Differentiable Traffic Simulation

ICRA 2025

We present a parallelized differentiable traffic simulator based on the Intelligent Driver Model (IDM), a car-following framework that incorporates driver behavior as key variables. Our vehicle simulator efficiently models vehicle motion, generating trajectories that can be supervised to fit real-wo

Cited by 4SourcecodeScholar
2025

Quantifying and Modeling Driving Styles in Trajectory Forecasting

IROS 2025

Trajectory forecasting has become a popular deep learning task due to its relevance for scenario simulation for autonomous driving. Specifically, trajectory forecasting predicts the trajectory of a short-horizon future for specific human drivers in a particular traffic scenario. Robust and accurate

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Deep Stochastic Kinematic Models for Probabilistic Motion Forecasting in Traffic

IROS 2024poster

In trajectory forecasting tasks for traffic, future output trajectories can be computed by advancing the ego vehicle’s state with predicted actions according to a kinematics model. By unrolling predicted trajectories via time integration and models of kinematic dynamics, predicted trajectories shoul…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

TRAVERSE: Traffic-Responsive Autonomous Vehicle Experience & Rare-event Simulation for Enhanced safety

IROS 2024poster

Data for training learning-enabled self-driving cars in the physical world are typically collected in a safe, normal environment. Such data distribution often engenders a strong bias towards safe driving, making self-driving cars unprepared when encountering adversarial scenarios like unexpected acc…

Cited by 1SourceScholar
2024

Task-Driven Domain-Agnostic Learning with Information Bottleneck for Autonomous Steering

ICRA 2024poster

Environments for autonomous driving can vary from place to place, leading to challenges in designing a learning model for a new scene. Transfer learning can leverage knowledge from a learned domain to a new domain with limited data. In this work, we focus on end-to-end autonomous driving as the targ…

Cited by 0SourceScholar