Application of Vision-Language Model to Pedestrians Behavior and Scene Understanding in Autonomous Driving

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06680v1
• Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 01:31:07 GMT
• Title: Application of Vision-Language Model to Pedestrians Behavior and Scene Understanding in Autonomous Driving
• Authors: Haoxiang Gao, Yu Zhao,
• Abstract summary: We analyze effective knowledge distillation of semantic labels to smaller Vision networks.<n>This can be used for the semantic representation of complex scenes for downstream decision-making for planning and control.
• Score: 2.0122032639916485
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Autonomous driving (AD) has experienced significant improvements in recent years and achieved promising 3D detection, classification, and localization results. However, many challenges remain, e.g. semantic understanding of pedestrians' behaviors, and downstream handling for pedestrian interactions. Recent studies in applications of Large Language Models (LLM) and Vision-Language Models (VLM) have achieved promising results in scene understanding and high-level maneuver planning in diverse traffic scenarios. However, deploying the billion-parameter LLMs to vehicles requires significant computation and memory resources. In this paper, we analyzed effective knowledge distillation of semantic labels to smaller Vision networks, which can be used for the semantic representation of complex scenes for downstream decision-making for planning and control.

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