Fluid-inspired field representation for risk assessment in road scenes

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Fluid-inspired field representation for risk assessment in road scenes

By Xuanpeng Li, Lifeng Zhu, Qifan Xue, Dong Wang & Yongjie Jessica Zhang · September 11, 2026
Abstract

Prediction of the likely evolution of traffic scenes is a challenging task because of high uncertainties from sensing technology and the dynamic environment. It leads to failure of motion planning for intelligent agents like autonomous vehicles. In this paper, we propose a fluid-inspired model to estimate collision risk in road scenes. Multi-object states are detected and tracked, and then a stable fluid model is adopted to construct the risk field. Objects’ state spaces are used as the boundary conditions in the simulation of advection and diffusion processes. We have evaluated our approach on the public KITTI dataset; our model can provide predictions in the cases of misdetection and tracking error caused by occlusion. It proves a promising approach for collision risk assessment in road scenes.

Publication Details
Type Research
Volume 6
Issue No. pages 401-415
Published Sep 11, 2026
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