no code implementations • 23 Mar 2024 • Allen Z. Ren, Jaden Clark, Anushri Dixit, Masha Itkina, Anirudha Majumdar, Dorsa Sadigh
We consider the problem of Embodied Question Answering (EQA), which refers to settings where an embodied agent such as a robot needs to actively explore an environment to gather information until it is confident about the answer to a question.
1 code implementation • 16 Nov 2022 • Masha Itkina, Mykel J. Kochenderfer
We propose the use of evidential deep learning to estimate the epistemic uncertainty over a low-dimensional, interpretable latent space in a trajectory prediction setting.
1 code implementation • 3 Oct 2022 • Bernard Lange, Masha Itkina, Mykel J. Kochenderfer
Environment prediction frameworks are integral for autonomous vehicles, enabling safe navigation in dynamic environments.
1 code implementation • 2 Oct 2022 • Ye-Ji Mun, Masha Itkina, Shuijing Liu, Katherine Driggs-Campbell
To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first to use social occlusion inference for crowd navigation.
1 code implementation • 26 Mar 2022 • Harrison Delecki, Masha Itkina, Bernard Lange, Ransalu Senanayake, Mykel J. Kochenderfer
This paper presents a method for characterizing failures of LiDAR-based perception systems for AVs in adverse weather conditions.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2021 • Phil Chen, Masha Itkina, Ransalu Senanayake, Mykel J. Kochenderfer
We evaluate our method on a variety of generative models, including variational autoencoders and auto-regressive architectures.
1 code implementation • 5 Sep 2021 • Masha Itkina, Ye-Ji Mun, Katherine Driggs-Campbell, Mykel J. Kochenderfer
We propose an occlusion inference method that characterizes observed behaviors of human agents as sensor measurements, and fuses them with those from a standard sensor suite.
no code implementations • 3 Nov 2020 • Julia Nitsch, Masha Itkina, Ransalu Senanayake, Juan Nieto, Max Schmidt, Roland Siegwart, Mykel J. Kochenderfer, Cesar Cadena
A mechanism to detect OOD samples is important for safety-critical applications, such as automotive perception, to trigger a safe fallback mode.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2020 • Masha Itkina, Boris Ivanovic, Ransalu Senanayake, Mykel J. Kochenderfer, Marco Pavone
Discrete latent spaces in variational autoencoders have been shown to effectively capture the data distribution for many real-world problems such as natural language understanding, human intent prediction, and visual scene representation.
1 code implementation • 19 Oct 2020 • Bernard Lange, Masha Itkina, Mykel J. Kochenderfer
Safe and proactive planning in robotic systems generally requires accurate predictions of the environment.
1 code implementation • 28 Apr 2019 • Masha Itkina, Katherine Driggs-Campbell, Mykel J. Kochenderfer
A key challenge for autonomous driving is safe trajectory planning in cluttered, urban environments with dynamic obstacles, such as pedestrians, bicyclists, and other vehicles.