Yanlong Yang
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Research2025 – Present

World Models for Autonomous-Driving Perception

PhD research · ongoing

observe → latent state → predictpastzfuture occupancy

Perception systems see the present; a world model also predicts what comes next. This ongoing PhD work extends the generative priors from my radar and imaging research toward predictive world models of the driving environment, with occupancy as the shared representation.

I maintain a curated survey of occupancy world models on GitHub.

Highlights

  • Generative priors for future-occupancy prediction
  • Curated survey: Awesome-Occupancy-World-Model