# DeepIPC: Deeply Integrated Perception and Control for an Autonomous Vehicle in Real Environments

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.09934 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.09934/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in End-to-end system architecture, one of 9 directions in End-to-end autonomous driving.
- Builds on 25 of its 65 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 20 Jul 2022.

## Placed in

- End-to-end autonomous driving / [End-to-end system architecture](https://mlsanity.com/driving/end-to-end-system-architecture/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 25 of 25)

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- [PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.01703/) (2019)
- [Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training by Reducing Internal Covariate Shift](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1502.03167/) (2015)
- [EfficientNet: Rethinking Model Scaling for Convolutional Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.11946/) (2019)
- [The Cityscapes Dataset for Semantic Urban Scene Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1604.01685/) (2016)
- [SegFormer: Simple and Efficient Design for Semantic Segmentation with Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.15203/) (2021)
- [On the Properties of Neural Machine Translation: Encoder-Decoder Approaches](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1409.1259/) (2014)
- [TransFuser: Imitation with Transformer-Based Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.15997/) (2022)
- [Multi-Modal Fusion Transformer for End-to-End Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.09224/) (2021)
- [Deep Multi-modal Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation for Autonomous Driving: Datasets, Methods, and Challenges](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1902.07830/) (2019)
- [NEAT: Neural Attention Fields for End-to-End Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.04456/) (2021)
- [Urban Driving with Conditional Imitation Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.00177/) (2019)
- [Multi-task Learning with Attention for End-to-end Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.10753/) (2021)
- [Modeling Human Driving Behavior through Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.06412/) (2020)
- [Multi-modal Sensor Fusion-Based Deep Neural Network for End-to-end Autonomous Driving with Scene Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.09202/) (2020)
- [Semantic Understanding of Foggy Scenes with Purely Synthetic Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.03997/) (2019)
- [Exploring Imitation Learning for Autonomous Driving with Feedback Synthesizer and Differentiable Rasterization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.01882/) (2021)
- [Vision-Based Autonomous Car Racing Using Deep Imitative Reinforcement Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.08325/) (2021)
- [End-to-end Autonomous Driving with Semantic Depth Cloud Mapping and Multi-agent](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.05513/) (2022)
- [Learning Category-Level Generalizable Object Manipulation Policy via Generative Adversarial Self-Imitation Learning from Demonstrations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.02107/) (2022)
- [Learning from Naturalistic Driving Data for Human-like Autonomous Highway Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.11470/) (2020)
- [A Multi-Layered Approach for Measuring the Simulation-to-Reality Gap of Radar Perception for Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.08372/) (2021)
- [DeepGoal: Learning to Drive with driving intention from Human Control Demonstration](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.12610/) (2019)
- [Multi-source Pseudo-label Learning of Semantic Segmentation for the Scene Recognition of Agricultural Mobile Robots](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.06386/) (2021)
- [Image-based scene recognition for robot navigation considering traversable plants and its manual annotation-free training](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.00759/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [DeepIPCv2: LiDAR-powered Robust Environmental Perception and Navigational Control for Autonomous Vehicle](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.06647/) (2023)
- [Seq-DeepIPC: Sequential Sensing for End-to-End Control in Legged Robot Navigation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.23057/) (2025)
- [DeepIPCv3: Event-Aware Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion for Sudden Pedestrian Crossing Avoidance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.01277/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In this work, we introduce DeepIPC, a novel end-to-end model tailored for autonomous driving, which seamlessly integrates perception and control tasks. Unlike traditional models that handle these tasks separately, DeepIPC innovatively combines a perception module, which processes RGBD images for semantic segmentation and generates bird's eye view (BEV) mappings, with a controller module that utilizes these insights along with GNSS and angular speed measurements to accurately predict navigational waypoints. This integration allows DeepIPC to efficiently translate complex environmental data into actionable driving commands. Our comprehensive evaluation demonstrates DeepIPC's superior performance in terms of drivability and multi-task efficiency across diverse real-world scenarios, setting a new benchmark for end-to-end autonomous driving systems with a leaner model architecture. The experimental results underscore DeepIPC's potential to significantly enhance autonomous vehicular navigation, promising a step forward in the development of autonomous driving technologies. For further insights and replication, we will make our code and datasets available at https://github.com/oskarnatan/DeepIPC.