2024

September 2024: One paper is accepted to NeurIPS 2024.
September 2024: Learn more about our recent work on diffusion-based world models for simulation from our CVPR ‘24 workshop talk [YouTube link].
June 2024: The 2024 Waymo Open Dataset Challenges have concluded. I served as a co-organizer, and reports from winners can be found here, along with a YouTube recording.

2023

September 2023: I will be speaking at the 2023 IROS Workshop on Traffic Agent Modeling for Autonomous Driving Simulation in October.
September 2023: Our paper The Waymo Open Sim Agents Challenge is accepted to NeurIPS ‘23 as a Spotlight, in the Datasets & Benchmarks track.
May 2023: The 2023 Waymo Open Dataset Challenges have concluded. Our whitepaper describing the 2023 Sim Agents challenge is on Arxiv.
March 2023: The 2023 Waymo Open Dataset Challenges are live. More info available here.

July 2022: Our paper SALVe: Semantic Alignment Verification for Floorplan Reconstruction from Sparse Panoramas has been accepted to ECCV 2022. [Project Page] [Paper] [Code]
March 2022: I have joined Waymo Research as a research scientist.
March 2022: I defended my PhD Thesis. Many thanks to Simon Lucey, Zsolt Kira, and Cedric Pradalier who joined my co-advisors, James Hays and Frank Dellaert, on my committee. The title of my thesis is “Deep Learning for Building and Validating Geometric and Semantic Maps” – coming soon to Arxiv.
March 2022: The Trust, but Verify (TbV) Dataset is released. This is the first public dataset for HD map change detection, an important problem for self-driving vehicle perception. Available for download here.
March 2022: The Argoverse 2.0 Datasets are released – featuring a Sensor Dataset (1000 scenarios w/ imagery, LiDAR, and paired HD maps), a Motion Forecasting Dataset (250K tracked scenarios w/ HD maps), and a LiDAR Dataset (20K thirty sec. scenarios, with LiDAR data and paired HD maps). Available for download here. [Devkit]
January 2022: An updated journal-length version of our MSeg work has been accepted to TPAMI and is now available on ArXiv here.

December 2021: I am on the industry job market for Spring 2022.
October 2021: Two papers are accepted to NeurIPS 2021 – Trust, but Verify: Cross-Modality Fusion for HD Map Change Detection and also Argoverse 2.0: Next Generation Datasets for Self-Driving Perception and Forecasting.
September 2021: Code is released for our Trust but Verify HD map change detection work – public dataset release coming soon.
June 2021: Winners have been announced for the CVPR 2021 Argoverse competitions. The talk is available here.
May 2021: I am interning with Sing Bing Kang at Zillow Research, working on indoor scene understanding.
April 2021: We are pleased to announce two new Argoverse competitions – Stereo and Motion Forecasting – at the CVPR 2021 Workshop on Autonomous Driving. Challenges are open through June 13th, 2021, and feature a total of $8,000 in prizes ($2000 for each first place winner, and $1000 for honorable mentions). We’ve put together a Jupyter notebook here to get started with the Stereo data with SGM.

November 2020: I gave an invited talk at the ROS World 2020 virtual conference, discussing our MSeg work from CVPR. A recording is available here. Our lightweight 480p MSeg model can run at 25 fps in Pytorch.
August 2020: We are the runner-up in the 2020 Robust Vision Challenge (semantic segmentation track), without training on four of the seven RVC test datasets (zero-shot, cross-dataset generalization). See our talk at the ECCV 2020 RVC workshop here.
June 2020: Watch an excellent presentation from MachinesCanSee on our recent MSeg work, presented by Dr. Vladlen Koltun.
June 2020: The CVPR 2020 WAD Argoverse competitions have concluded. Congratulations to the very impressive submissions from the winners. You can watch the results presentation here, or the summary presented at ICML 2020.
April 2020: We are pleased to announce two Argoverse Competitions at the CVPR 2020 Workshop on Autonomous Driving. Argo AI is offering $5,000 in prizes for Motion Forecasting and 3D tracking methods. I’ve open-sourced my 3d tracking code that is currently 1st place on the leaderboard. Please consider participating! The competitions will remain open until June 10, 2020.
April 2020: Our MSeg paper has been accepted to CVPR 2020 and took first place on WildDash. Pretrained models available here, data available here, and a Colab to try our demo on your own images and videos.