arxivcs.ROcs.AIcs.CV2026-07-01
What's Hidden Matters: Identifying Planning-Critical Occluded Agents using Vision-Language Models
Amirhosein Chahe, Tyler Naes, Jovin D'sa, Faizan M. Tariq, Sangjae Bae, Lifeng Zhou, et al.
Autonomous vehicles must safely navigate complex environments where planning-critical agents may be hidden from view. Current approaches often treat all occlusions with uniform conservatism, yielding needlessly defensive driving, or they infer hidden spaces without estimating the…