no code implementations • 26 Sep 2024 • Chris Zhang, Sourav Biswas, Kelvin Wong, Kion Fallah, Lunjun Zhang, Dian Chen, Sergio Casas, Raquel Urtasun
Large-scale data is crucial for learning realistic and capable driving policies.
no code implementations • CVPR 2024 • Ben Agro, Quinlan Sykora, Sergio Casas, Thomas Gilles, Raquel Urtasun
Perceiving the world and forecasting its future state is a critical task for self-driving.
no code implementations • 6 Jun 2024 • Sergio Casas, Ben Agro, Jiageng Mao, Thomas Gilles, Alexander Cui, Thomas Li, Raquel Urtasun
The tasks of object detection and trajectory forecasting play a crucial role in understanding the scene for autonomous driving.
no code implementations • 1 Apr 2024 • Sourav Biswas, Sergio Casas, Quinlan Sykora, Ben Agro, Abbas Sadat, Raquel Urtasun
Instead, we shift the paradigm to have the planner query occupancy at relevant spatio-temporal points, restricting the computation to those regions of interest.
no code implementations • CVPR 2023 • Lunjun Zhang, Anqi Joyce Yang, Yuwen Xiong, Sergio Casas, Bin Yang, Mengye Ren, Raquel Urtasun
In this paper, we study the problem of unsupervised object detection from 3D point clouds in self-driving scenes.
no code implementations • 2 Nov 2023 • Lunjun Zhang, Yuwen Xiong, Ze Yang, Sergio Casas, Rui Hu, Raquel Urtasun
Learning world models can teach an agent how the world works in an unsupervised manner.
no code implementations • 2 Nov 2023 • Anqi Joyce Yang, Sergio Casas, Nikita Dvornik, Sean Segal, Yuwen Xiong, Jordan Sir Kwang Hu, Carter Fang, Raquel Urtasun
Auto-labels are most commonly generated via a two-stage approach -- first objects are detected and tracked over time, and then each object trajectory is passed to a learned refinement model to improve accuracy.
no code implementations • 2 Nov 2023 • Ali Athar, Enxu Li, Sergio Casas, Raquel Urtasun
4D panoptic segmentation is a challenging but practically useful task that requires every point in a LiDAR point-cloud sequence to be assigned a semantic class label, and individual objects to be segmented and tracked over time.
Ranked #1 on Panoptic Tracking on Panoptic nuScenes val
no code implementations • ICCV 2023 • Enxu Li, Sergio Casas, Raquel Urtasun
To address this challenge, we propose a novel framework for semantic segmentation of a temporal sequence of LiDAR point clouds that utilizes a memory network to store, update and retrieve past information.
no code implementations • CVPR 2023 • Ben Agro, Quinlan Sykora, Sergio Casas, Raquel Urtasun
A self-driving vehicle (SDV) must be able to perceive its surroundings and predict the future behavior of other traffic participants.
no code implementations • CVPR 2023 • Simon Suo, Kelvin Wong, Justin Xu, James Tu, Alexander Cui, Sergio Casas, Raquel Urtasun
Towards this goal, we propose to leverage the wealth of interesting scenarios captured in the real world and make them reactive and controllable to enable closed-loop SDV evaluation in what-if situations.
no code implementations • 4 Nov 2022 • Alexander Cui, Sergio Casas, Kelvin Wong, Simon Suo, Raquel Urtasun
However, this approach is computationally expensive for multi-agent prediction as inference needs to be run for each agent.
no code implementations • 8 Apr 2021 • Sean Segal, Nishanth Kumar, Sergio Casas, Wenyuan Zeng, Mengye Ren, Jingkang Wang, Raquel Urtasun
As data collection is often significantly cheaper than labeling in this domain, the decision of which subset of examples to label can have a profound impact on model performance.
no code implementations • 20 Jan 2021 • Sergio Casas, Wenjie Luo, Raquel Urtasun
In order to plan a safe maneuver, self-driving vehicles need to understand the intent of other traffic participants.
no code implementations • CVPR 2021 • Sergio Casas, Abbas Sadat, Raquel Urtasun
High-definition maps (HD maps) are a key component of most modern self-driving systems due to their valuable semantic and geometric information.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2019 • Wenyuan Zeng, Wenjie Luo, Simon Suo, Abbas Sadat, Bin Yang, Sergio Casas, Raquel Urtasun
In this paper, we propose a neural motion planner (NMP) for learning to drive autonomously in complex urban scenarios that include traffic-light handling, yielding, and interactions with multiple road-users.
no code implementations • CVPR 2021 • John Phillips, Julieta Martinez, Ioan Andrei Bârsan, Sergio Casas, Abbas Sadat, Raquel Urtasun
Over the last few years, we have witnessed tremendous progress on many subtasks of autonomous driving, including perception, motion forecasting, and motion planning.
no code implementations • CVPR 2021 • Simon Suo, Sebastian Regalado, Sergio Casas, Raquel Urtasun
We show TrafficSim generates significantly more realistic and diverse traffic scenarios as compared to a diverse set of baselines.
no code implementations • CVPR 2021 • Jingkang Wang, Ava Pun, James Tu, Sivabalan Manivasagam, Abbas Sadat, Sergio Casas, Mengye Ren, Raquel Urtasun
Importantly, by simulating directly from sensor data, we obtain adversarial scenarios that are safety-critical for the full autonomy stack.
no code implementations • 16 Jan 2021 • Abbas Sadat, Sean Segal, Sergio Casas, James Tu, Bin Yang, Raquel Urtasun, Ersin Yumer
Our experiments on a wide range of tasks and models show that the proposed curation pipeline is able to select datasets that lead to better generalization and higher performance.
no code implementations • ICCV 2021 • Alexander Cui, Sergio Casas, Abbas Sadat, Renjie Liao, Raquel Urtasun
In this paper, we present LookOut, a novel autonomy system that perceives the environment, predicts a diverse set of futures of how the scene might unroll and estimates the trajectory of the SDV by optimizing a set of contingency plans over these future realizations.
no code implementations • 7 Jan 2021 • Katie Luo, Sergio Casas, Renjie Liao, Xinchen Yan, Yuwen Xiong, Wenyuan Zeng, Raquel Urtasun
On two large-scale real-world datasets, nuScenes and ATG4D, we showcase that our scene-occupancy predictions are more accurate and better calibrated than those from state-of-the-art motion forecasting methods, while also matching their performance in pedestrian motion forecasting metrics.
no code implementations • 12 Nov 2020 • Davi Frossard, Simon Suo, Sergio Casas, James Tu, Rui Hu, Raquel Urtasun
In this paper we propose StrObe, a novel approach that minimizes latency by ingesting LiDAR packets and emitting a stream of detections without waiting for the full sweep to be built.
no code implementations • ECCV 2020 • Abbas Sadat, Sergio Casas, Mengye Ren, Xinyu Wu, Pranaab Dhawan, Raquel Urtasun
In this paper we propose a novel end-to-end learnable network that performs joint perception, prediction and motion planning for self-driving vehicles and produces interpretable intermediate representations.
no code implementations • ECCV 2020 • Bin Yang, Runsheng Guo, Ming Liang, Sergio Casas, Raquel Urtasun
We tackle the problem of exploiting Radar for perception in the context of self-driving as Radar provides complementary information to other sensors such as LiDAR or cameras in the form of Doppler velocity.
no code implementations • ECCV 2020 • Sergio Casas, Cole Gulino, Simon Suo, Katie Luo, Renjie Liao, Raquel Urtasun
In order to plan a safe maneuver an autonomous vehicle must accurately perceive its environment, and understand the interactions among traffic participants.
no code implementations • 4 Jun 2020 • Sergio Casas, Cole Gulino, Simon Suo, Raquel Urtasun
Towards this goal, we design a framework that leverages REINFORCE to incorporate non-differentiable priors over sample trajectories from a probabilistic model, thus optimizing the whole distribution.
no code implementations • CVPR 2020 • Ming Liang, Bin Yang, Wenyuan Zeng, Yun Chen, Rui Hu, Sergio Casas, Raquel Urtasun
We tackle the problem of joint perception and motion forecasting in the context of self-driving vehicles.
no code implementations • 18 Oct 2019 • Sergio Casas, Cole Gulino, Renjie Liao, Raquel Urtasun
A graph neural network then iteratively updates the actor states via a message passing process.
no code implementations • 17 Oct 2019 • Ajay Jain, Sergio Casas, Renjie Liao, Yuwen Xiong, Song Feng, Sean Segal, Raquel Urtasun
Particularly difficult is the prediction of human behavior.