Driving with A Thousand Faces: A Benchmark for Closed-Loop Personalized End-to-End Autonomous Driving
This addresses the need for personalized autonomous driving systems for users, though it is incremental as it builds on existing end-to-end methods.
The paper tackles the problem of end-to-end autonomous driving systems neglecting individual driving styles by proposing Person2Drive, a platform and benchmark that includes a data collection system, evaluation metrics, and a framework for personalized driving, demonstrating effectiveness in enabling fine-grained analysis and personalization.
Human driving behavior is inherently diverse, yet most end-to-end autonomous driving (E2E-AD) systems learn a single average driving style, neglecting individual differences. Achieving personalized E2E-AD faces challenges across three levels: limited real-world datasets with individual-level annotations, a lack of quantitative metrics for evaluating personal driving styles, and the absence of algorithms that can learn stylized representations from users' trajectories. To address these gaps, we propose Person2Drive, a comprehensive personalized E2E-AD platform and benchmark. It includes an open-source, flexible data collection system that simulates realistic scenarios to generate scalable and diverse personalized driving datasets; style vector-based evaluation metrics with Maximum Mean Discrepancy and KL divergence to comprehensively quantify individual driving behaviors; and a personalized E2E-AD framework with a style reward model that efficiently adapts E2E models for safe and individualized driving. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Person2Drive enables fine-grained analysis, reproducible evaluation, and effective personalization in end-to-end autonomous driving. Our dataset and code will be released after acceptance.