Failing to learn: Autonomously identifying perception failures for self-driving cars

MS Ramanagopal, C Anderson… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… unstudied problem for self-driving cars. This paper introduces a novel automated method
to identify mistakes made by object detectors on the raw unlabeled perception data streams …

[PDF][PDF] Failing to Learn: Autonomously Identifying Perception Failures for Self-driving Cars

SR Manikandasriram, C Anderson, R Vasudevan… - arxiv.org
… We study two distinct cues to identify errors - temporal and … Temporal: CNN based object
detectors often fail to … baseline setup, object detectors often fail to consistently detect objects in …

Introspective black box failure prediction for autonomous driving

CB Kuhn, M Hofbauer, G Petrovic… - … Intelligent Vehicles …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Selfdriving cars making mistakes will be an inevitable part of … failure prediction work mostly
focuses on detecting failures … of scene complexity as perceived by the car, we also use the the …

Trajectory-based failure prediction for autonomous driving

CB Kuhn, M Hofbauer, G Petrovic… - … Intelligent Vehicles …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
learning to detect patterns that indicate impending failures. … Different from those works, we
predict failures of an entire self-driving … [14] detect failures of a perception module by running a …

Learning from the failure of autonomous and intelligent systems: Accidents, safety, and sociotechnical sources of risk

C Macrae - Risk analysis, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
failures to date: the 2018 fatal crash of Uber's self-driving car. … constant comparative analysis
to identify key sources and … SDS meant that repeated failures of the perception system to …

Thirdeye: Attention maps for safe autonomous driving systems

A Stocco, PJ Nunes, M d'Amorim… - Proceedings of the 37th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
… The perception part is typically delegated to deep neural … failures, based on the Udacity
simulator for self-driving cars. This dataset can be used to evaluate the performance of failure

Predicting Safety Misbehaviours in Autonomous Driving Systems using Uncertainty Quantification

R Grewal, P Tonella, A Stocco - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.18573, 2024 - arxiv.org
… we used the Udacity simulator for self-driving cars [24], a cross-… exhibits multiple failures,
we assess each failure individually. … Yiqiang, “Monitoring perception reliability in autonomous

Monitoring perception reliability in autonomous driving: Distributional shift detection for estimating the impact of input data on prediction accuracy

F Hell, G Hinz, F Liu, S Goyal, K Pei… - … Science in Cars …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
… to identify outliers that are far away in the feature space. … Self-Oracle is unable to distinguish
between images it has … We find that VAEs often obtain similar reconstruction errors on OOD …

Introspection of dnn-based perception functions in automated driving systems: State-of-the-art and open research challenges

HY Yatbaz, M Dianati… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… based perception systems are susceptible to errors, eg, failing … solutions for the introspection
of perception errors in ADSs. We … , with a focus on self-driving vehicles, shared mobility, and …

Introspective false negative prediction for black-box object detectors in autonomous driving

Q Yang, H Chen, Z Chen, J Su - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
… task in environment perception for autonomous driving, but … provide specific object-wise
failure predictions, which we believe … driving, we prioritize FNs among other types of failures, and …