Summary of Hierarchical End-to-end Autonomous Driving: Integrating Bev Perception with Deep Reinforcement Learning, by Siyi Lu et al.
Hierarchical End-to-End Autonomous Driving: Integrating BEV Perception with Deep Reinforcement Learning
by Siyi Lu, Lei He, Shengbo Eben Li, Yugong Luo, Jianqiang Wang, Keqiang Li
First submitted to arxiv on: 26 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents a novel end-to-end autonomous driving framework that integrates perception, prediction, and planning within a single Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) model. The authors address the limitation of existing DRL approaches by directly mapping feature extraction to perception, enabling semantic segmentation and clearer interpretation. The proposed framework utilizes Bird’s-Eye-View (BEV) representations and multi-sensor inputs to construct a unified three-dimensional understanding of the environment. This approach extracts and translates critical environmental features into high-level abstract states for DRL control, improving performance and reducing collision rates by 20%. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper makes self-driving cars better. It combines many tasks into one model that can understand the world like we do. The researchers connected the part of the model that takes in data to the part that decides what to do with it. This helps make decisions more clear and understandable. They used a special way of looking at the world, called Bird’s-Eye-View, to help their model work better. Their new system is better than other systems because it can understand the world more clearly and make safer choices. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Feature extraction » Reinforcement learning » Semantic segmentation
