On the Road with GPT-4V(ision): Early Explorations of Visual-Language Model on Autonomous Driving

The pursuit of autonomous driving technology hinges on the sophisticated integration of perception, decision-making, and control systems. Traditional approaches, both data-driven and rule-based, have been hindered by their inability to grasp the nuance of complex driving environments and the intenti...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2023-11
Main Authors: Wen, Licheng, Yang, Xuemeng, Fu, Daocheng, Wang, Xiaofeng, Cai, Pinlong, Li, Xin, Ma, Tao, Li, Yingxuan, Xu, Linran, Shang, Dengke, Zhu, Zheng, Sun, Shaoyan, Bai, Yeqi, Cai, Xinyu, Dou, Min, Hu, Shuanglu, Shi, Botian, Yu, Qiao
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cognition & reasoning
Decision making
R&D
Reasoning
Recognition
Research & development
Roads
Scene analysis
Traffic signals
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Summary:The pursuit of autonomous driving technology hinges on the sophisticated integration of perception, decision-making, and control systems. Traditional approaches, both data-driven and rule-based, have been hindered by their inability to grasp the nuance of complex driving environments and the intentions of other road users. This has been a significant bottleneck, particularly in the development of common sense reasoning and nuanced scene understanding necessary for safe and reliable autonomous driving. The advent of Visual Language Models (VLM) represents a novel frontier in realizing fully autonomous vehicle driving. This report provides an exhaustive evaluation of the latest state-of-the-art VLM, GPT-4V(ision), and its application in autonomous driving scenarios. We explore the model's abilities to understand and reason about driving scenes, make decisions, and ultimately act in the capacity of a driver. Our comprehensive tests span from basic scene recognition to complex causal reasoning and real-time decision-making under varying conditions. Our findings reveal that GPT-4V demonstrates superior performance in scene understanding and causal reasoning compared to existing autonomous systems. It showcases the potential to handle out-of-distribution scenarios, recognize intentions, and make informed decisions in real driving contexts. However, challenges remain, particularly in direction discernment, traffic light recognition, vision grounding, and spatial reasoning tasks. These limitations underscore the need for further research and development. Project is now available on GitHub for interested parties to access and utilize: \url{https://github.com/PJLab-ADG/GPT4V-AD-Exploration}
ISSN:2331-8422