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A. Guo, J. Ge, D. Horti, D. Filev, and F.-Y. Wang, “Rethinking off-road ADAS: A perspective on the generative co-pilot paradigm,” IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, 2025. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2025.125891
Citation: A. Guo, J. Ge, D. Horti, D. Filev, and F.-Y. Wang, “Rethinking off-road ADAS: A perspective on the generative co-pilot paradigm,” IEEE/CAA J. Autom. Sinica, 2025. doi: 10.1109/JAS.2025.125891

Rethinking Off-Road ADAS: A Perspective on the Generative Co-Pilot Paradigm

doi: 10.1109/JAS.2025.125891
Funds:  This work was supported in part by the Science and Technology Development Fund, Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) (0145/2023/RIA3), and in part by the DeSciCPI Project from the Obuda University, Hungary.
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