All You Need to Know about Self-Driving

A full day tutorial covering all aspects of autonomous driving. This tutorial will provide the necessary background for understanding the different tasks and associated challenges, the different sensors and data sources one can use and how to exploit them, as well as how to formulate the relevant algorithmic problems such that efficient learning and inference is possible. We will first introduce the self-driving problem setting and a broad range of existing solutions, both top-down from a high-level perspective, as well as bottom-up from technological and algorithmic points of view. We will then extrapolate from the state of the art and discuss where the challenges and open problems are, and where we need to head towards to provide a scalable, safe and affordable self-driving solution for the future.

Since last year’s instance (https://waabi.ai/cvpr-2023/), countless new and promising avenues of research have started gaining traction, and we have updated our tutorial accordingly. To name a few example, this includes topics like occupancy forecasting, self-supervised learning, foundation models, the rise of Gaussian Splatting and diffusion models for simulation as well as the study of closed-loop vs. open-loop evaluation.