[Survey Paper] This repository collects research papers of large Foundation Models for Scenario Generation and Analysis in Autonomous Driving. The repository will be continuously updated to track the latest update.
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This repository will collect research, implementations, and resources related to Foundation Models for Scenario Generation and Analysis in autonomous driving. The repository will be maintained by TUM-AVS (Professorship of Autonomous Vehicle Systems at Technical University of Munich) and will be continuously updated to track the latest work in the community.
Please visit Foundation Models in Autonomous Driving: A Survey on Scenario Generation and Scenario Analysis for more details and comprehensive information. If you find our paper and repo helpful, please consider citing it as follows:
@ARTICLE{11370877,
author={Gao, Yuan and Piccinini, Mattia and Zhang, Yuchen and Wang, Dingrui and Moller, Korbinian and Brusnicki, Roberto and Zarrouki, Baha and Gambi, Alessio and Totz, Jan Frederik and Storms, Kai and Peters, Steven and Stocco, Andrea and Alrifaee, Bassam and Pavone, Marco and Betz, Johannes},
journal={IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems},
title={Foundation Models in Autonomous Driving: A Survey on Scenario Generation and Scenario Analysis},
year={2026},
volume={},
number={},
pages={1-1},
keywords={Autonomous vehicles;Surveys;Foundation models;Scenario generation;Frequency modulation;Visualization;Reviews;Diffusion models;Adaptation models;Cognition;Autonomous vehicles;foundation model;scenario generation;scenario analysis;scenario based testing},
doi={10.1109/OJITS.2026.3660686}}
Foundation models are large-scale, pre-trained models that can be adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks. In the context of autonomous driving, foundation models offer a powerful approach to scenario generation and analysis, enabling more comprehensive and realistic testing, validation, and verification of autonomous driving systems. This repository aims to collect and organize research, tools, and resources in this important field.
The following figure shows the evolution of foundation model research in autonomous driving scenario generation and analysis over time:
The following list of keywords was used to search this survey's papers in the Google Scholar database. The keywords were entered either individually or in combination with other keywords in the list. The search was conducted until May 2025.
Keywords:
The figure illustrates the evolution of foundation models. LLMs (e.g., BERT, GPT) appear at the bottom, followed by VLMs built on visual FMs (e.g., ViT, CLIP) and instruction-tuned VLMs for interactive vision–language reasoning. MLLMs are shown at the top. In parallel, the progression of visual FMs is traced through Diffusion Models (DMs) and World Models (WMs). Highlighted entries mark key conceptual milestones.
| Paper | Date | Venue | Code | Hardware | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Realistic Corner Case Generation for Autonomous Vehicles with Multimodal Large Language Model | 2024-11 | Tsinghua Science and Technology | - | API&RTX3090 | 12 |
| LMM-enhanced Safety-Critical Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving System Testing From Non-Accident Traffic Videos | 2025-01 | arXiv | GitHub | RTX2080 | 6 |
| Multi-modal Traffic Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving System Testing | 2025-06 | FSE 2025 | - | API | 1 |
| Talk2Traffic: Interactive and Editable Traffic Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving with Multimodal Large Language Model | 2025-06 | CVPR 2025 WDFM-AD | GitHub | - | 3 |
| OmniTraffic: A Controllable Generation Pipeline and Benchmark for Spatio-Temporal Traffic Reasoning | 2026-06 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| Paper | Date | Venue | Code | Hardware | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AVD2: Accident Video Diffusion for Accident Video Description | 2025-03 | ICRA 2025 | GitHub | - | 16 |
The following figure shows the usage distribution of different foundation model types across autonomous driving datasets:
| Dataset | Year | Img | View | Real | Lidar | Radar | Traj | 3D | 2D | Lane | Weather | Time | Region | Company |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CamVid | 2009 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D | U | - |
| KITTI | 2013 | RGB/S | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D | U/R/H | - |
| Cyclists | 2016 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | D | U | - |
| Cityscapes | 2016 | RGB/S | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | D | U | - |
| SYNTHIA | 2016 | RGB | FPV | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| Campus | 2016 | RGB | BEV | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | D | C | - |
| RobotCar | 2016 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | D/N | U | - |
| Mapillary | 2017 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| P.F.B. | 2017 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| BDD100K | 2018 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D | U/H | - |
| HighD | 2018 | RGB | BEV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | D | H | - |
| Udacity | 2018 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | D | U | - |
| KAIST | 2018 | RGB/S | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| Argoverse | 2019 | RGB/S | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| TRAF | 2019 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D | U | - |
| ApolloScape | 2019 | RGB/S | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D | U | - |
| ACFR | 2019 | RGB | BEV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | D | RA | - |
| H3D | 2019 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D | U | - |
| INTERACTION | 2019 | RGB | BEV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | D | I/RA | - |
| Comma2k19 | 2019 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | D/N | U/S/R/H | - |
| InD | 2020 | RGB | BEV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | D | I | - |
| RounD | 2020 | RGB | BEV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | D | RA | - |
| nuScenes | 2020 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| Lyft Level 5 | 2020 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U/S | - |
| Waymo Open | 2020 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| A*3D | 2020 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| RobotCar Radar | 2020 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| Toronto3D | 2020 | RGB | BEV | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | D/N | U | University of Waterloo |
| A2D2 | 2020 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | D | U/H/S/R |
| WADS | 2020 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | D/N | U/S/R | Michigan Technological University |
| Argoverse 2 | 2021 | RGB/S | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| PandaSet | 2021 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| ONCE | 2021 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| Leddar PixSet | 2021 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | D/N | U/S/R | Leddar |
| ZOD | 2022 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U/R/S/H | Zenseact |
| IDD-3D | 2022 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - | R | INAI |
| CODA | 2022 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U/S/R | Huawei |
| SHIFT | 2022 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U/S/R/H | ETH Zürich |
| DeepAccident | 2023 | RGB/S | FPV/BEV | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U/S/R/H | HKU, Huawei, CARLA |
| Dual_Radar | 2023 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | Tsinghua University |
| V2V4Real | 2023 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | - | U/H/S | UCLA Mobility Lab |
| SCaRL | 2024 | RGB/S | FPV/BEV | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U/S/R/H | Fraunhofer CARLA |
| MARS | 2024 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U/S/H | NYU, MAY Mobility |
| Scenes101 | 2024 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U/S/R/H | Wayve |
| TruckScenes | 2025 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | H/U | MAN |
Notes: View: FPV=First-Person, BEV=Bird's-Eye; Time: D=Day, N=Night; Region: U=Urban, R=Rural, H=Highway, S=Suburban, C=Campus, I=Intersection, RA=Road Area; Img: RGB/S=RGB+Stereo
The following figure shows the usage distribution of different foundation model types across autonomous driving simulators:
| Simulator | Year | Back-end | Open Source | Realistic Perception | Custom Scenario | Real World Map | Human Design Map | Python API | C++ API | ROS API | Company |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TORCS | 2000 | None | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - |
| Webots | 2004 | ODE | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | - |
| CarRacing | 2017 | None | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - |
| CARLA | 2017 | UE4 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| SimMobilityST | 2017 | None | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - |
| GTA-V | 2017 | RAGE | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - |
| highway-env | 2018 | None | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - |
| Deepdrive | 2018 | UE4 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | - |
| esmini | 2018 | Unity | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - |
| AutonoViSim | 2018 | PhysX | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - |
| AirSim | 2018 | UE4 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | - |
| SUMO | 2018 | None | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | - |
| Apollo | 2018 | Unity | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | - |
| Sim4CV | 2018 | UE4 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - |
| MATLAB | 2018 | MATLAB | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Mathworks |
| Scenic | 2019 | None | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | Toyota Research Institute, UC Berkeley |
| SUMMIT | 2020 | UE4 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | - |
| MultiCarRacing | 2020 | None | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - |
| SMARTS | 2020 | None | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - |
| LGSVL | 2020 | Unity | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| CausalCity | 2020 | UE4 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - |
| Vista | 2020 | None | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | MIT |
| MetaDrive | 2021 | Panda3D | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | - |
| L2R | 2021 | UE4 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | - |
| AutoDRIVE | 2021 | Unity | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Nuplan | 2021 | None | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | Motional |
| AWSIM | 2021 | Unity | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | Autoware |
| InterSim | 2022 | None | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | Tsinghua |
| Nocturne | 2022 | None | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | |
| BeamNG.tech | 2022 | Soft-body physics | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | BeamNG GmbH |
| Waymax | 2023 | JAX | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | Waymo |
| UNISim | 2023 | None | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | Waabi |
| TBSim | 2023 | None | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | NVIDIA |
| Nvidia DriveWorks | 2024 | Nvidia GPU | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | NVIDIA |
| Name | Host |
|---|---|
| CARLA AD Challenge | CARLA |
| DRL4Real | ICCV |
| Waymo Open Dataset Challenge | Waymo / CVPR WAD |
| Argoverse 2: Scenario Mining | ArgoAI |
| Roboflow-20VL | Roboflow-VL / CVPR |
| AVA Challenge | AVA Challenge Team |
| Name | Host |
|---|---|
| IGLU Challenge | NeurIPS / IGLU Team |
| LLM Efficiency Challenge | NeurIPS |
| Trojan Detection | NeurIPS / CAIS |
| SMART-101 | CVPR |
| NICE Challenge | CVPR / LG Research |
| SyntaGen | CVPR |
| Habitat Challenge | CVPR / FAIR |
| BIG-bench | Google Research |
| BIG-bench Hard (BBH) | Google Research |
| HELM | Stanford CRFM |
| MMBench | OpenCompass |
| MMMU | CVPR / U-Waterloo / OSU |
| Open LLM Leaderboard | VILA-Lab |
| Text-to-Image Leaderboard | Artificial Analysis |
| Ego4D | FAIR |
| VizWiz Grand Challenge | CVPR VizWiz Workshop |
| MedFM | NeurIPS / Shanghai AI Laboratory |
| 3D Scene Understanding | CVPR |
This section provides links to commonly used tools, frameworks, and resources for working with foundation models in autonomous driving.
We welcome contributions from the community! If you have research papers, tools, or resources to add, please create a pull request or open an issue.
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[Survey Paper] This repository collects research papers of large Foundation Models for Scenario Generation and Analysis in Autonomous Driving. The repository will be continuously updated to track the latest update.
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updated Sep 20, 2026
This repository will collect research, implementations, and resources related to Foundation Models for Scenario Generation and Analysis in autonomous driving. The repository will be maintained by TUM-AVS (Professorship of Autonomous Vehicle Systems at Technical University of Munich) and will be continuously updated to track the latest work in the community.
Please visit Foundation Models in Autonomous Driving: A Survey on Scenario Generation and Scenario Analysis for more details and comprehensive information. If you find our paper and repo helpful, please consider citing it as follows:
@ARTICLE{11370877,
author={Gao, Yuan and Piccinini, Mattia and Zhang, Yuchen and Wang, Dingrui and Moller, Korbinian and Brusnicki, Roberto and Zarrouki, Baha and Gambi, Alessio and Totz, Jan Frederik and Storms, Kai and Peters, Steven and Stocco, Andrea and Alrifaee, Bassam and Pavone, Marco and Betz, Johannes},
journal={IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems},
title={Foundation Models in Autonomous Driving: A Survey on Scenario Generation and Scenario Analysis},
year={2026},
volume={},
number={},
pages={1-1},
keywords={Autonomous vehicles;Surveys;Foundation models;Scenario generation;Frequency modulation;Visualization;Reviews;Diffusion models;Adaptation models;Cognition;Autonomous vehicles;foundation model;scenario generation;scenario analysis;scenario based testing},
doi={10.1109/OJITS.2026.3660686}}
Foundation models are large-scale, pre-trained models that can be adapted to a wide range of downstream tasks. In the context of autonomous driving, foundation models offer a powerful approach to scenario generation and analysis, enabling more comprehensive and realistic testing, validation, and verification of autonomous driving systems. This repository aims to collect and organize research, tools, and resources in this important field.
The following figure shows the evolution of foundation model research in autonomous driving scenario generation and analysis over time:
The following list of keywords was used to search this survey's papers in the Google Scholar database. The keywords were entered either individually or in combination with other keywords in the list. The search was conducted until May 2025.
Keywords:
The figure illustrates the evolution of foundation models. LLMs (e.g., BERT, GPT) appear at the bottom, followed by VLMs built on visual FMs (e.g., ViT, CLIP) and instruction-tuned VLMs for interactive vision–language reasoning. MLLMs are shown at the top. In parallel, the progression of visual FMs is traced through Diffusion Models (DMs) and World Models (WMs). Highlighted entries mark key conceptual milestones.
| Paper | Date | Venue | Code | Hardware | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Realistic Corner Case Generation for Autonomous Vehicles with Multimodal Large Language Model | 2024-11 | Tsinghua Science and Technology | - | API&RTX3090 | 12 |
| LMM-enhanced Safety-Critical Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving System Testing From Non-Accident Traffic Videos | 2025-01 | arXiv | GitHub | RTX2080 | 6 |
| Multi-modal Traffic Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving System Testing | 2025-06 | FSE 2025 | - | API | 1 |
| Talk2Traffic: Interactive and Editable Traffic Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving with Multimodal Large Language Model | 2025-06 | CVPR 2025 WDFM-AD | GitHub | - | 3 |
| OmniTraffic: A Controllable Generation Pipeline and Benchmark for Spatio-Temporal Traffic Reasoning | 2026-06 | arXiv | - | - | 0 |
| Paper | Date | Venue | Code | Hardware | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AVD2: Accident Video Diffusion for Accident Video Description | 2025-03 | ICRA 2025 | GitHub | - | 16 |
The following figure shows the usage distribution of different foundation model types across autonomous driving datasets:
| Dataset | Year | Img | View | Real | Lidar | Radar | Traj | 3D | 2D | Lane | Weather | Time | Region | Company |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CamVid | 2009 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D | U | - |
| KITTI | 2013 | RGB/S | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D | U/R/H | - |
| Cyclists | 2016 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | D | U | - |
| Cityscapes | 2016 | RGB/S | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | D | U | - |
| SYNTHIA | 2016 | RGB | FPV | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| Campus | 2016 | RGB | BEV | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | D | C | - |
| RobotCar | 2016 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | D/N | U | - |
| Mapillary | 2017 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| P.F.B. | 2017 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| BDD100K | 2018 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D | U/H | - |
| HighD | 2018 | RGB | BEV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | D | H | - |
| Udacity | 2018 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | D | U | - |
| KAIST | 2018 | RGB/S | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| Argoverse | 2019 | RGB/S | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| TRAF | 2019 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D | U | - |
| ApolloScape | 2019 | RGB/S | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D | U | - |
| ACFR | 2019 | RGB | BEV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | D | RA | - |
| H3D | 2019 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D | U | - |
| INTERACTION | 2019 | RGB | BEV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | D | I/RA | - |
| Comma2k19 | 2019 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | D/N | U/S/R/H | - |
| InD | 2020 | RGB | BEV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | D | I | - |
| RounD | 2020 | RGB | BEV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | D | RA | - |
| nuScenes | 2020 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| Lyft Level 5 | 2020 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U/S | - |
| Waymo Open | 2020 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| A*3D | 2020 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| RobotCar Radar | 2020 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| Toronto3D | 2020 | RGB | BEV | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | D/N | U | University of Waterloo |
| A2D2 | 2020 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | D | U/H/S/R |
| WADS | 2020 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | D/N | U/S/R | Michigan Technological University |
| Argoverse 2 | 2021 | RGB/S | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| PandaSet | 2021 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| ONCE | 2021 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | - |
| Leddar PixSet | 2021 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | D/N | U/S/R | Leddar |
| ZOD | 2022 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U/R/S/H | Zenseact |
| IDD-3D | 2022 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - | R | INAI |
| CODA | 2022 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U/S/R | Huawei |
| SHIFT | 2022 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U/S/R/H | ETH Zürich |
| DeepAccident | 2023 | RGB/S | FPV/BEV | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U/S/R/H | HKU, Huawei, CARLA |
| Dual_Radar | 2023 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U | Tsinghua University |
| V2V4Real | 2023 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | - | U/H/S | UCLA Mobility Lab |
| SCaRL | 2024 | RGB/S | FPV/BEV | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U/S/R/H | Fraunhofer CARLA |
| MARS | 2024 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U/S/H | NYU, MAY Mobility |
| Scenes101 | 2024 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | U/S/R/H | Wayve |
| TruckScenes | 2025 | RGB | FPV | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | D/N | H/U | MAN |
Notes: View: FPV=First-Person, BEV=Bird's-Eye; Time: D=Day, N=Night; Region: U=Urban, R=Rural, H=Highway, S=Suburban, C=Campus, I=Intersection, RA=Road Area; Img: RGB/S=RGB+Stereo
The following figure shows the usage distribution of different foundation model types across autonomous driving simulators:
| Simulator | Year | Back-end | Open Source | Realistic Perception | Custom Scenario | Real World Map | Human Design Map | Python API | C++ API | ROS API | Company |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TORCS | 2000 | None | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - |
| Webots | 2004 | ODE | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | - |
| CarRacing | 2017 | None | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - |
| CARLA | 2017 | UE4 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| SimMobilityST | 2017 | None | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - |
| GTA-V | 2017 | RAGE | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - |
| highway-env | 2018 | None | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - |
| Deepdrive | 2018 | UE4 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | - |
| esmini | 2018 | Unity | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - |
| AutonoViSim | 2018 | PhysX | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - |
| AirSim | 2018 | UE4 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | - |
| SUMO | 2018 | None | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | - |
| Apollo | 2018 | Unity | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | - |
| Sim4CV | 2018 | UE4 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - |
| MATLAB | 2018 | MATLAB | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | Mathworks |
| Scenic | 2019 | None | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | Toyota Research Institute, UC Berkeley |
| SUMMIT | 2020 | UE4 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | - |
| MultiCarRacing | 2020 | None | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - |
| SMARTS | 2020 | None | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - |
| LGSVL | 2020 | Unity | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| CausalCity | 2020 | UE4 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | - |
| Vista | 2020 | None | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | MIT |
| MetaDrive | 2021 | Panda3D | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | - |
| L2R | 2021 | UE4 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | - |
| AutoDRIVE | 2021 | Unity | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - |
| Nuplan | 2021 | None | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | Motional |
| AWSIM | 2021 | Unity | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | Autoware |
| InterSim | 2022 | None | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | Tsinghua |
| Nocturne | 2022 | None | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | |
| BeamNG.tech | 2022 | Soft-body physics | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | BeamNG GmbH |
| Waymax | 2023 | JAX | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | Waymo |
| UNISim | 2023 | None | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✖️ | Waabi |
| TBSim | 2023 | None | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✖️ | NVIDIA |
| Nvidia DriveWorks | 2024 | Nvidia GPU | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | ✔ | ✔ | ✖️ | NVIDIA |
| Name | Host |
|---|---|
| CARLA AD Challenge | CARLA |
| DRL4Real | ICCV |
| Waymo Open Dataset Challenge | Waymo / CVPR WAD |
| Argoverse 2: Scenario Mining | ArgoAI |
| Roboflow-20VL | Roboflow-VL / CVPR |
| AVA Challenge | AVA Challenge Team |
| Name | Host |
|---|---|
| IGLU Challenge | NeurIPS / IGLU Team |
| LLM Efficiency Challenge | NeurIPS |
| Trojan Detection | NeurIPS / CAIS |
| SMART-101 | CVPR |
| NICE Challenge | CVPR / LG Research |
| SyntaGen | CVPR |
| Habitat Challenge | CVPR / FAIR |
| BIG-bench | Google Research |
| BIG-bench Hard (BBH) | Google Research |
| HELM | Stanford CRFM |
| MMBench | OpenCompass |
| MMMU | CVPR / U-Waterloo / OSU |
| Open LLM Leaderboard | VILA-Lab |
| Text-to-Image Leaderboard | Artificial Analysis |
| Ego4D | FAIR |
| VizWiz Grand Challenge | CVPR VizWiz Workshop |
| MedFM | NeurIPS / Shanghai AI Laboratory |
| 3D Scene Understanding | CVPR |
This section provides links to commonly used tools, frameworks, and resources for working with foundation models in autonomous driving.
We welcome contributions from the community! If you have research papers, tools, or resources to add, please create a pull request or open an issue.
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